TRUNG TÁ PHẠM VĂN ĐỔNG 1955 - THIẾU TƯỚNG QUÂN LỰC VIỆT NAM CỘNG HOÀ DANH TƯỚNG VIỆT NAM VÀ DANH TƯỚNG THẾ GIỚI
ARVN General PHẠM VĂN ĐỔNG 1919-2008
CÁC HUÂN CHƯƠNG : Viet Nam, Pháp , Mỹ, Đại Hàn, Thái Lan , Trung Hoa Dân Quốc
General Đồng earned the following personal Vietnamese and foreign decorations and awards
Vietnam military decorations
Vietnam military decorations Tương Trung Long Tinh Huy-Chương (Officier de l’Ordre du Dragon d'Annam - Order of the Dragon of Annam, Officer class)
Đệ Tam Đẳng Bảo Quốc Huân-Chương (Commander of the National Order)
Chương Mỹ Bội Tinh Đệ Nhất hạng (Chuong My Merit medal, 1st class)
Đệ Tứ Đẳng Bảo Quốc Huân-Chương (Officer of the National Order)
Lục Quân Huân-Chương Đệ Nhất hạng (Army Distinguished Service Order, 1st class)
Anh Dũng Bội Tinh (Cross of Gallantry, with 18 citations - palms & gold
stars)
Phát Triển Sắc Tộc Bội Tinh Đệ Nhất hạng (Ethnic Development Service Medal, 1st class)
Foreign decorations and awards
Foreign decorations and awardsRepublic of China Order of Blue Sky and White Sun with Grand Cordon (青天白日勳章)
Republic of China Order of Brilliant Star, 1st Class(一等景星勳章)
France Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur
France Croix de guerre 1939-1945 avec palme de bronze (citation a l'ordre de l'Armee) (War 2)
France Croix de guerre des Théatres d'Opérations Exterieures avec 2 palmes d’argent et 4 citations de bronze
France Croix du combattant
France Medaille Coloniale avec Barrette Extreme Orient
France Medaille d'honneur pour Actes de Courage et de Devouement
France Medaille Commemorative de la guerre 1939-1945 (War 2)
France Médaille commémorative de la campagne d'Indochine
France Chevalier de l’Ordre du merite du Territoire Autonome Nung
France Croix d'officier de l’Ordre du Merite Civil de la Federation T’ai
Republic of Korea Field Marshall Lord Eulji Cordon, ROK 2nd highest decoration Order of Military Merit
Republic of Korea Order of Service Merit, 2nd Class
Kingdom of Thailand Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant, Commander class (๒๓. ตริตราภรณ์ช้างเ ผือก - dtŕ dtaa pon cháang-pèuak
He was considered an ally to the labor union, the Northern Catholics, several Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng (Việt Quốc) , Việt Nam Cách Mạng Đồng Minh Hội (Việt Cách) high-ranking members, Duy Dân and Ḥa Hảo leaders
He Graduated United States Army Command and General Staff College 1958 ( Học Viện Đào tạo Tướng Lănh Mỹ Quốc )
During the Fall of Saigon 1975, he and his family were able to escape on a US Air Force C130 that took them to Guam, and then onward to the United States where he was offered political asylum
In his spare time, Đồng wrote poems to relax under the pen name of Nùng Khánh Lâm. In 1944 while he was stationed in Móng Cái, he wrote poems to court a Nùng woman, Lê Thị Lư (1919–1992). They got married and eventually had five children. After coming to the States and settling in Arlington County, Virginia, Đồng would occasionally serve as a translator on special projects for the Defense Department before retiring in 1982 to take care of his wife who had suffered from a stroke.
Two years after Lư died, Đồng remarried to Mỹ-Lan Trịnh, from whom he acquired three stepdaughters. In 1996, he and his new family moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where he died of congestive heart failure on November 26, 2008. Major General Phạm Văn Đồng is survived by his second wife Mỹ-Lan, five children, three stepchildren, nine grandchildren and three great-grandchildren
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