Hanoi Hannah
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Trinh Thi Ngo (born 1931), known as Hanoi Hannah, was a Vietnamese woman who, during the Vietnam War in the 1960s and 1970s, read broadcast radio messages and propaganda to convince U.S. troops to go AWOL, a psychological warfare scheme set forth by the Communist North Vietnamese. She made three broadcasts a day talking to American soldiers. She read the list of the newly killed or imprisoned Americans, tried to persuade American GIs that the American involvement in Vietnam was unjust and immoral, and also played popular American anti-war songs to incite feelings of nostalgia and homesickness amongst GIs. Here is an excerpt of one of her usual broadcast speeches:
- How are you, GI Joe? It seems to me that most of you are poorly informed about the going of the war, to say nothing about a correct explanation of your presence over here. Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on. (Hanoi Hannah, 16 June 1967)
[edit] References in popular culture
Her voice can be heard in the computer game Battlefield Vietnam during Quang Tri and the reclamation of Hue over the public address system, as well as during the main screen if the player waits until after the LBJ quote.
[edit] See also
- Tokyo Rose
- Axis Sally
- Hanoi Jane
- Lord Haw-Haw
- Baghdad Bob
- Seoul City Sue
- Azzam the American
- Stuttgart traitor
- Philippe Henriot
