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During the Vietnam War, it was used for detention of captured Viet Cong and North Vietnamese soldiers. The prison covered an area of 40,000 square metres (0.015 sq mi). During the Tet Offensive in early 1968, 2,665 POWs escaped after attacking the fenceline, few of them were recaptured. The Vietcong shelled or attacked the camp 34 times in 1968.
Land reform in North Vietnam: 1953–1956 North Vietnam [6] Communist government of North Vietnam under orders from Ho Chi Minh: Quỳnh Lưu uprising: November 2–14, 1956 North Vietnam: 1022 killed People's Army of Vietnam: Châu Đốc massacre: July 11, 1957 Châu Đốc in An Giang Province, South Vietnam 17 Anti-government insurgents
At the end of 1978, Pol Pot used ten divisions to prepare for a full-scale invasion against Vietnam. In this context, on 7 December 1978, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam and the Central Military Commission passed the decision to officially enter the Third Indochina War and overthrow Pol Pot's regime.
War in Southern Vietnam (1945–1946) Việt Minh. Bình Xuyên; Hoà Hảo; Cao Đài; Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng United Kingdom British India France French Indochina Japan. Defeat. Restoration of French rule in Indochina. Beginning of the First Indochina War. First Indochina War (1946–1954) Resistance war against France Democratic ...
The Huế War Museum (Vietnamese: Bảo tàng Cách mạng Thừa Thiên Huế) is located on Hai Mươi Ba Tháng Tám, inside the Citadel. Items on display include an M42 Duster , M48 Patton tank, M88 Recovery Vehicle , M113 armoured personnel carrier , Cadillac Gage V-100 Commando armoured car and M107 Self-Propelled Gun .
The Vietnam War, (also known as the Second Indochina War, Vietnam Conflict, and in Vietnam as the American War), took place from 1955 to 1975. The war was fought between the Communist-supported North Vietnam and the United States-supported South Vietnam , beginning with the presence of a small number of US military advisors in 1955 and ...
Members of the United States armed forces were held as prisoners of war (POWs) in significant numbers during the Vietnam War from 1964 to 1973. Unlike U.S. service members captured in World War II and the Korean War, who were mostly enlisted troops, the overwhelming majority of Vietnam-era POWs were officers, most of them Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps airmen; a relatively small number of ...
This is a list of Navy Cross recipients for actions of valor carried out during the Vietnam War, awarded by the United States Department of the Navy. The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam , Laos , and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 [ a ] to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.