People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Võ Nguyên Giáp Võ Nguyên Giáp The history teacher who defeated two empires without ever attending a military academy
- Dương Văn Minh Dương Văn Minh South Vietnamese general who led the 1963 coup and ordered the 1975 surrender
- Văn Tiến Dũng Văn Tiến Dũng Vietnamese general who led the 1975 spring offensive to Saigon and directed the 1979 invasion of Cambodia and border war with China
- Nguyễn Văn Thiệu Nguyễn Văn Thiệu General who was president of South Vietnam from 1967 to 1975, opposed the Paris Peace Accords and resigned days before the fall of Saigon