Tran Van Tra

Tran Van Tra
▪ 1997

      Vietnamese general (b. 1918 Quang Ngai province, Vietnam, 1918—d. April 20, 1996, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam), proved to be an able commander in the Vietnam War by leading communist raids on Saigon both during the Tet offensive of 1968 and during the city's capture in 1975. Raised in southern Vietnam, he began his military career in the late 1930s fighting against the French in the Viet Minh resistance movement. Following the Geneva Accords of 1954 that partitioned the country, he assumed various posts in the North Vietnamese army. In 1963 he was sent back to the south, where he led Viet Cong guerrillas against U.S. and South Vietnamese forces. Although he scored many battlefield victories and was appointed military head of the underground communist government in South Vietnam, he often clashed with party leaders over wartime strategy. He returned briefly to Hanoi in the mid-1970s to help plan the final assault on Saigon, in which he was the frontline commander. Dismayed at the lack of official credit he and other generals from South Vietnam received following the war, he wrote a personal account of the conflict, which was censored upon its publication in 1982. Despite falling from favour in Hanoi, Tra retained his influence among former army officials, with whom in 1987 he organized a war veterans association. The group was vocal in its opposition to government policies and was banned in 1990.

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