Remembering Dang Thuy Tram…

Dang Thuy Tram

On this day 50 years ago, on 22nd June 1970, at the height of the American war in Viet Nam, a young North Vietnamese doctor left her jungle clinic in the mountains of Central Vietnam and headed down the trail. Her name was Dang Thuy Tram. Shortly afterwards she was killed by an American patrol and, discovered amongst her possessions, was a diary that was recovered by US Soldier Frederick Whitehurst and subsequently returned to the family some thirty five years later. Thuy’s diaries were later published to popular acclaim in Vietnam.

Bringing it to a UK/English-speaking audience for the first time, we are currently working on a short film about this poignant personal story of courage, sacrifice and reconciliation from the war in Viet Nam.