Trinh Thi Ngo, a soft-spoken radio announcer, was dubbed "Hanoi Hannah." She made American troops stationed in Vietnam laugh during the Vietnam War while trying to persuade them that the war was immoral.
Nguyen Ngoc Thuy, a colleague at the Voice of Vietnam, a national radio station where she worked for decades, confirmed her death in a telephone interview on Tuesday. She had been treated for liver disease.
Hanoi Hannah, trained as a journalist in Australia before Nazi Germany fell in For the U.S. air force in the campaign against Japan, she operated radio stations. Her colleagues of the time nicknamed her "Hanoi Hannah" behind her back. Last year she was in Ho Chi Minh City.