Nguyễn Ngọc Loan



"This is a photograph of Major General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan. He was a South Vietnamese general and chief of the Republic of Vietnam National Police, and he even executed a prisoner named Nguyễn Văn Lém on February 1, 1968. In Saigon, Vietnam. During the Tet Offensive. He was a Viet Cong leader, ya know. Did know that better."

--Su Ji-Hoon, The Day Penny Polendina Will Die

Major General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan (Vietnamese: [ŋʷǐənˀ ŋâwkp lʷāːn]; 11 December 1930 – 14 July 1998) was a South Vietnamese general and chief of the South Vietnamese National Police.

Loan gained international attention when he summarily executed handcuffed prisoner Nguyễn Văn Lém, on February 1, 1968 in Saigon, Vietnam during the Tet Offensive. Nguyễn Văn Lém was a Việt Cộng member. The event was witnessed and recorded by Võ Sửu, a cameraman for NBC, and Eddie Adams, an Associated Press photographer. The photo and film became two famous images in contemporary American journalism.

In When the Cold Breeze Blows Away,he is mentioned in some pictures of Execution of Nguyễn Văn Lém that Ngo Dinh Diem and Ducangers don't want revive him for don't want to execute Penny Polendina (due to pictures show him executed Nguyen Van Lem), which she will be executed by new ARVN commander,Hoàng Thảo Hà Hana,because of instead him.