PHAM, TAM MINH  (birth name, Minh Pham Tam)
 

Name:  Tam Minh Pham 
Rank/Branch:  South Vietnamese Officer
Unit: 
Date of Birth:    / Cambodia
Home City of Record:   South Vietnam
Date of Loss:  1975
Country of Loss: 
Loss Coordinates: 
Status (in 1973):  POW, released February1981
Category: 
Acft/Vehicle/Ground: 

Other Personnel In Incident: 

Source: 2018 P.O.W. NETWORK.

REMARKS:  West Point class of '74.

SYNOPSIS: 
 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/magazine/1992/07/05/
the-liberation-of-tam-minh-pham/3ae52e2d-c468-47cf-ab79-9ea01052bed3/?utm_term=.d46bcb55d864

THE LIBERATION OF TAM MINH PHAM

 

 
 

 

 


It's a long way from Saigon to West Point; from the United States Military Academy to the reeducation camps of
Vietnam; and from the camps to D.C.'s Cardozo High School. But geography is only the beginning of this survivor's story...

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https://www.army.mil/article/168802/son_of_vietnamese_refugees_spearheads_v_ac_association

Son of Vietnamese refugees spearheads V-AC Association

By Kathy EastwoodMay 27, 2016

 

....After starting VACA, Le reached out to the first Vietnamese national graduate, Tam Minh Pham, USMA Class of 1974.
"Pham went back to fight in South Vietnam and become a prisoner of war," Le said. 
Pham, a POW for six years, currently resides in Maryland.....

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https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/104613