| LC control no. | n 97019217 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Vang Pao |
| Variant(s) | Vang, Pao |
| Birth date | 1929-12 |
| Death date | 20110106 |
| Found in | Library of Congress Manuscript Division for Souvanna Phouma Papers, 1961-70 (General Vang Pao; led Hmong soldiers in campaigns on the Plain of Jars, Laos, against the North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao) Shadow war, 1995: p. 7 (Vang Pao; 1st Hmong grad. of the ANL's Dong Hene academy; would later play major role in Lao history) index (Vang Pao, Gen.) At war in the shadow of Vietnam, 1993: index (Vang Pao) New York times WWW site, Jan. 10, 2011 (in obituary published Jan. 8: Vang Pao; b. Dec. 1929, northeast Laos; d. Thursday [Jan. 6, 2011], Clovis, Calif., aged 81; charismatic Laotian general who commanded a secret army of his mountain people in a long, losing campaign against Communist insurgents, then achieved almost kinglike status as their leader-in-exile in the United States) |
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