Lâm Quang Thi

Thi was born in Bac Lieu on 7 May 1932, to a family of wealthy landowning farmers.{{cite book|last=Veith|first=George|title=Black April The Fall of South Vietnam 1973-75|publisher=Encounter Books|year=2012|isbn=9781594035722}}{{rp|93}} Thi's parents met through a matchmaker and married two years before he was born. Thi's father came from a family of Cao Dai adherents while his mother was a Roman Catholic. His maternal grandfather was one of the richest Chinese landowners in Bac Lieu at the turn of the 20th century.Lam (2001), p. 6–8 His parents separated in 1937 after their fourth child was born, and his mother took their four children back down to her hometown in Tam Vu. After completing his primary education there, Thi was sent to Can Tho for his secondary education, where he enrolled into the Phan Thanh Gian College after passing through its tough entrance examinations.Lam (2001), p. 10–12

He joined the Vietnamese National Army in 1950 and graduated from the National Military Academy, in Da Lat.{{rp|93}} He held the positions of Commander of the RVNAF Artillery Training Center, Commander of the Artillery in I Corps, Deputy Commander, RVNAF Artillery; Commander, 9th Infantry Division; and Commander of the Vietnamese National Military Academy.

On 10 March 1972, he replaced Nguyễn Văn Hiếu as deputy commander of I Corps.{{cite web|url=https://vva.vietnam.ttu.edu/images.php?img=/images/1683/168300010833.pdf|title=U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, 1972-3 Command History Volume 1|publisher=Military Assistance Command, Vietnam|date=15 July 1973|accessdate=19 January 2022|page=C-26}}{{PD-notice}}{{rp|93}}

Lam fled with his family to the United States in May 1975, when South Vietnam fell to the invading North Vietnamese army. He lived in Fremont, California. Lam earned a French Baccalaureate Degree in Philosophy and an MBA, both from Golden Gate University in San Francisco.{{citation needed|date=April 2016}} His son, Andrew Lam, is a writer and a journalist.

Lam was interviewed about the war in Ken Burns's series The Vietnam War.

Lâm died from COVID-19 in Fremont, California, on 19 January 2021, aged 88, during the COVID-19 pandemic in California.{{Cite web|date=2021-01-19|title=Cựu Trung Tướng Lâm Quang Thi qua đời, hưởng thọ 88 tuổi|url=https://www.nguoi-viet.com/little-saigon/cong-dong/cuu-trung-tuong-lam-quang-thi-qua-doi/|access-date=2021-01-20|website=Nguoi Viet Online|language=en-US}}

• 80x80px Commander of the National Order of Vietnam
• 80x80px Army Distinguished Service Order, First Class
• 80x80px Navy Distinguished Service Order, First Class
• 80x80px Gallantry Cross
• 80x80px Armed Forces Honor Medal, First Class
• 80x80px Staff Service Medal, First Class
• 80x80px Technical Service Medal, First Class
• 80x80px Training Service Medal, First Class
• 80x80px Civil Action Medal, First Class
• 80x80px Chuong My Medal, First Class
• 80x80px Administrative Service Medal, First Class

• {{Flag|South Korea}} :
• 80x80px Order of Military Merit, Chung Mu Medal
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• 80x80px Officer of the Legion of Merit

• Lam, Quang Thi, The Twenty-Five Year Century: A South Vietnamese General Remembers the Indochina War to the Fall of Saigon, University of North Texas Press, 2001, {{ISBN|1-57441-143-8}}
• Lam, Quang Thi, Hell in An Loc: The 1972 Easter Invasion and the Battle That Saved South Viet Nam, University of North Texas Press, 2011, {{ISBN|1-57441-313-9}}

• [http://web3.unt.edu/untpress/catalog/detail.cfm?ID=221 Book Review of The Twenty-five Year Century: A South Vietnamese General Remembers the Indochina War to the Fall of Saigon by General Lam Thi Quang]
• [http://www.vietgate.net/vietmag/408/408_vn_response.html A Vietnamese Response to McNamara War was lost in Washington, not in Saigon] by Lam Quang Thi posted by the Pacific News Service
• [http://www.generalhieu.com/lqthi-2.htm My Father's Army Uniform] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210610073258/http://www.generalhieu.com/lqthi-2.htm |date=2021-06-10 }} by Andrew Lam
• [http://web3.unt.edu/untpress/catalog/detail.cfm?ID=221 The Twenty-five Year Century: A South Vietnamese General Remembers the Indochina War to the Fall of Saigon]
• [http://vietamreview.blogharbor.com/blog/Chineseaggression/_archives/2005/4/15/584990.html 30 Years After the Vietnam War: China Remains a Threat]
• {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20090215192208/http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=45426fddab08dd27a6a73fcc75deb446 Setting the Record Straight on South Vietnam]}}
• [http://www.alternet.org/story/149914/east_eats_west%3A_writing_in_two_hemispheres/ Waterloo unearths some enlightening findings about the writer's father, a former general for South Vietnam.]

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