Lieutenant General Thái Quang Hoàng (c.1920 – February 22, 1993) was an officer of the

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. He was born in

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. He served as the commander of III Corps, which oversaw the region of the country surrounding the capital

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, from 1 March 1959 until 11 October of the same year, when he was replaced by Lieutenant General Nguyen Ngoc Le. He was the first commander of III Corps.Tucker, pp. 526–533. In 1975, he emigrated to Arlington in the

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. As a self-taught

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, he worked in the family jewellery business. He died of

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in 1993, aged 73.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Thai, Quang Hoang Army of the Republic of Vietnam generals Year of birth uncertain 1993 deaths 1920 births People of the First Indochina War Thai Quang Hoang American people of Vietnamese descent People from Thừa Thiên-Huế province