Lâm Ngươn Tánh
Rear Admiral Lâm Ngươn Tánh (18 October 1928, in Sadec, French Cochinchina, Cochinchina – 11 February 2018) was the last Chief of Naval Operations of the Republic of Vietnam Navy during the Vietnam War. Biography In 1974, he took part in the Battle of Hoang Sa between China and South Vietnam. Lâm Ngươn Tánh gained asylum in the United States after the Fall of Saigon in April 1975 and worked as a naval architect at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren, Virginia. A devout Anti-Communist, he continued to work with Vietnamese exile groups. Highlights of naval career * Saigon Merchant Marine Academy, 1948 * The Republic of Vietnam Naval Academy, 1952 * United States Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, 1958 * United States Naval Shipyard Management School in Pearl Harbor, 1960 * United States Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, 1965 * United States National Defense Management College in Monterey, California, 1973 * Commander of RVN Navy Eastern ...
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