Chia Youyee Vang: 2 books
by Chia Youyee Vang
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2009
Minnesota has always been a land of immigrants. Successive waves have each made their own way, found their place, and made it their home. The Hmong are one of the most recent immigrant groups, and their remarkable and moving story is told in Hmong in Minnesota.
Chia Youyee Vang reveals the...
Fly Until You Die
An Oral History of Hmong Pilots in the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
During the Vietnam War, the US Air Force secretly trained pilots from Laos, skirting Lao neutrality in order to bolster the Royal Lao Air Force and their own war efforts. Beginning in 1964, this covert project, "Water Pump," operated out of Udorn Airbase in Thailand with the support of the CIA. This...