Hung Ngo: Immigrant Stories
Channel: Immigration History Research Center
Date: 2015-05-05

Hung Ngo was born in Saigon, Vietnam and served as an officer in the South Vietnamese navy.  After the South Vietnamese government surrendered to Northern Vietnamese forces in 1975, he fled the country to avoid going to a labor camp.  He escaped with other officers in a boat and were rescued by the U.S. navy in the South China Sea.  He lived in a refugee camp, where he met his wife, before resettling in Minnesota.

Immigrant Stories invites immigrants, refugees, and their families to create digital stories about their experiences.  Each story is preserved in the Immigration History Research Center & Archives at the University of Minnesota, where we have collected materials related to immigration in the U.S. since 1965.

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