Thái Quang Hoàng

Lieutenant General Thái Quang Hoàng was an officer of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam.

He served as the commander of III Corps, which oversaw the region of the country surrounding the capital Saigon, 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.[1][2]

Notes

  1. Tucker, pp. 526533.
  2. Mai Việt Hà Steel and Blood: South Vietnamese Armor 2008, p.200 "When Colonel Luat's group reached the coffee plantation owned by Lieutenant General Thai Quang Hoang, it was detected and pursued by a column of North Vietnamese tanks."

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