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Nguyen Ngoc Sau
Colonel Nguyen Ngoc Sau – ARVN

Commander of Artillery 2nd Corps
In office
March 1975 – April 30, 1975
Preceded byPhạm Trọng Phùng
Succeeded byLast

Deputy Commander of Artillery 3rd Corps
In office
1973 – March 1975

Chief of Staff Quang Da special zone 1st Corps
In office
1970–1972

Commander of Artillery 2nd Infantry Division
In office
1965–1968

Commander of 26th Artillery Battalion
(Danang)
In office
1963–1964

Commander of 7th Mortar Battalion
(Bien Hoa)
In office
1961–1962

Commander of 23sc Mortar Battalion
(Dục Mỹ Camp)
In office
1958–1959

Captain of 106mm Mortar Company
(Ban Me Thuot)
In office
1956–1957
Personal details
Born(1928-04-02)April 2, 1928
Vinh, Vietnam
DiedApril 30, 2012(2012-04-30) (aged 84)
Irvine, California, United States of America
SpouseTran thi Hong Hanh
ChildrenBich Ngoc, Ngoc Thach, Kim Ngoc, Suong, Ngoc Tuan, Ngoc Trai, Ngoc Nga, Ngoc Hai, Hong Ngoc, My Ngoc, Ngoc Quang
Alma mater
  • Lycée Van Lang, Vietnam (1946)
  • National Military Academy, Dalat, Vietnam (1950–53)
  • Fort Sill Artillery School Oklahoma, 1960)
  • Command & General Staff College Leavenworth, Kansas, USA (1969–70)
  • National Defense college, Saigon, Vietnam (1973)
Awards South Vietnam :







Military service
Allegiance
Branch/service

Years of service1953 – April 30, 1975 (Army of the Republic of Vietnam)
Rank
Colonel
Commands
Battles/warsOperation Lam Son 719
Vietnam war

Nguyen Ngoc Sau (April 2, 1928 – April 30, 2012) was an officer in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam with the rank of Colonel. He graduated in 1953 from the national military academy in Dalat. He chose to specialize in artillery because of his love of mathematics. He was an honest and responsible commander throughout his career.

Biography and military career

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He was born on April 2, 1928, a devoted Catholic, in Vinh, Thanh Hoa, North Vietnam. In 1946 he graduated from lycée Van Lang, a French school, with a baccalaureate in mathematics.

Army of the Republic of Vietnam

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He attended the Dalat military academy and graduated the 8th class in 1953, after graduation he was retained as the school topography instructor between 1953 and 1956. He then joints the Artillery branch and assumes a new position as artillery company commander in Ban Me Thuot. Two year later, in 1958 he was promoted to battalion commander of artillery 23th battalion, in Dục Mỹ Camp. In 1960, he was sent to study Artillery forward observer officer class in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, USA. After returning from the US in 1961, he was assigned as battalion commander of artillery 7th battalion in Bien Hoa, 1963 he was transfer to Danang as battalion commander of artillery 26th battalion with the rank of captain. Between 1965 and 1968 he assumed the position of Artillery Division commander 2nd Division in Quang Ngai with the rank of major. In 1969 he was sent to study the Command and Staff course at Army Leavenworth college in Leavenworth, Kansas, USA, with the rank of lieutenant colonel. Up on return, he participated in Lam son 719 campaign as Chief of staff of Quang Da special zone in Danang till 1972. He was then assigned to the Four party joint military commission at Camp David, South Vietnam. In 1973 he attended the National Defense College then in 1974 assumed a position as Deputy Commander of Artillery Corps III with the rank of Colonel. His last post was Commander of Artillery Corps II.

1975

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After April 30, he decided to stay in the country. The new government took him to study and rehabilitate from the South to the North through Quang Trung, Yen Bai, Ha Tay and Nam Ha prisons. It was not until 1988 that he was released. In 1990 he reunited with his children in the US. On April 30, 2012, he passed away in Irvine, California, at the age of 84.

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