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In 1968, CORDS was working in all 44 provinces and eventually was functioning in all 250 districts of South Vietnam. [7] About 85 percent of CORDS personnel were military, the remainder civilians. [2]: 12 Each province was headed by a Vietnamese province chief, usually a colonel, who was supported by an American provincial senior adviser. The ...
In general, province chiefs controlled Regional Forces companies, and district and village chiefs directed Popular Forces platoons. Normally, the province chief was also the sector, or military, commander of his province, and the district chief was the subsector commander. For military affairs, both reported to the local division commander.
ISO 3166-2:VN is the entry for Vietnam in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.
1969 map of the Demilitarized Zone. The Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone was a demilitarized zone at the 17th parallel in Quang Tri province that was the dividing line between North Vietnam and South Vietnam from 21 July 1954 to 2 July 1976, when Vietnam was officially divided into 2 de facto countries, which was 2 de jure military gathering areas supposed to be sustained in the short term after ...
Long An Province was the gateway to the Mekong Delta the "rice-basket" of South Vietnam, in addition to producing over 280,000 tons of rice per year itself. The province contained vital transport links namely Route 4 which connected Saigon to An Xuyên Province and the Vàm Cỏ Đông and Vàm Cỏ Tay rivers which flowed southeast from the ...
South Vietnam, officially the Republic of Vietnam (RVN; Vietnamese: Việt Nam Cộng hòa; VNCH, French: République du Viêt Nam), was a sovereign country in Southeast Asia from 1955 to 1975, with its formation in 1949 as the State of Vietnam. Its capital was located in Saigon (renamed to Ho Chi Minh City in 1976).
The Battle of Xa Cam My was fought over two days from April 11–12, 1966, 10 miles (16 km) south of the village of Cam My in Phuoc Tuy Province, during the Vietnam War. [1]
The recruitment of PRU personnel varied from province to province. Many PRU members were former VC or former Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) soldiers. Some were former Special Forces soldiers or former members of a Citizen Irregular Defense Group (CIDG), while a few were simply local youths who did not want to join the regular ARVN and preferred to serve their country in their own home ...