Vietnam
- On 27 February 1962, South Vietnamese pilot Lieutenant Nguyen Van Cu defected to Cambodia with his Douglas A-1H Skyraider (Bu 134485) after failing in a coup attempt.
- On 7 November 1973, South Vietnamese pilot Lieutenant Ho Duy Hung defected to the Communists with a US-made UH-1A helicopter serial number 60139.
- In April 1975, two South Vietnamese pilots defected to the Communists with a UH-1 helicopter.
- On 8 April 1975, a South Vietnamese Air Force officer, Captain Nguyen Thanh Trung, bombed the presidential palace in Saigon and defected to the Communists in his F-5E.
Read more about this topic: List Of Cold War Pilot Defections
Famous quotes containing the word vietnam:
“No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.”
—Richard M. Nixon (b. 1913)
“That’s just the trouble, Sam Houston—it’s always my move. And damnit, I sometimes can’t tell whether I’m making the right move or not. Now take this Vietnam mess. How in the hell can anyone know for sure what’s right and what’s wrong, Sam?”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)
“Above all, Vietnam was a war that asked everything of a few and nothing of most in America.”
—Myra MacPherson, U.S. author. Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the Haunted Generation, epilogue (1984)