Vietnam
- On 27 February 1962, South Vietnamese pilot Lieutenant Nguyen Van Cu defected to Cambodia with his Douglas A-1H Skyraider (Bu 134485) after failing in a coup attempt.
- On 7 November 1973, South Vietnamese pilot Lieutenant Ho Duy Hung defected to the Communists with a US-made UH-1A helicopter serial number 60139.
- In April 1975, two South Vietnamese pilots defected to the Communists with a UH-1 helicopter.
- On 8 April 1975, a South Vietnamese Air Force officer, Captain Nguyen Thanh Trung, bombed the presidential palace in Saigon and defected to the Communists in his F-5E.
Read more about this topic: List Of Cold War Pilot Defections
Famous quotes containing the word vietnam:
“Let us understand: North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that.”
—Richard M. Nixon (1913–1992)
“Above all, Vietnam was a war that asked everything of a few and nothing of most in America.”
—Myra MacPherson, U.S. author. Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the Haunted Generation, epilogue (1984)
“I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.”
—Benjamin Spock (b. 1903)