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In fighting near Kien Thien in the Mekong Delta, 18 ARVN and 16 PAVN were killed. [3]: 381 3 October. The 1971 South Vietnamese presidential election was held. Incumbent President Thiệu garnered 94.3 percent of the vote. All of Thiệu's opponents had dropped out of the race. [16]: 107
Central Office for South Vietnam (COSVN) emphasized the strategic importance of the Mekong Delta and conceived it as the principal battlefield where the outcome of the war in South Vietnam would be decided and in early 1970 it infiltrated the PAVN 1st Division Headquarters and its three regiments, the 88th, 95A and 101D into MR-4. This effort ...
Aerial view of the Mekong River Delta. The Mekong Delta extends south and west from the city of Saigon and covers over 15,000 square miles (40,000 square kilometers). During the Vietnam War the strategic importance of the Delta was undeniable as it housed almost 8 million civilians and land movement was extremely restricted a majority of the year during the wet season.
The Cambodian campaign (also known as the Cambodian incursion and the Cambodian liberation) was a series of military operations conducted in eastern Cambodia in mid-1970 by South Vietnam and the United States as an expansion of the Vietnam War and the Cambodian Civil War.
Redeployment of the 173rd Airborne Brigade from South Vietnam to the United States: Jul 1 – Oct 4: Unnamed [11] 23rd Infantry Division operation: Quảng Ngãi Province: 324: Aug 20 – Dec 3: Operation Chenla II [12] FANK operation against NVA to reopen Route 6: Route 6: 3500+ claimed: 4500+ claimed Sep 1 – Nov 30: Operation Keystone ...
The Mekong Delta was the heartland of agricultural South Vietnam, it encompassed the fertile alluvial plains formed by the Mekong River and its main tributary, the Bassac River. With its sixteen provinces, the Delta contained about two-thirds of the nation's population and yielded the same proportion in rice production.
As McNamara said, "the dangerous illusion of victory by the United States was therefore dead." [78]: 367 Vietnam was a major political issue during the United States presidential election in 1968. The election was won by Republican Richard Nixon who claimed to have a secret plan to end the war. [25]: 515 [177]
Battles and operations of the Vietnam War in 1971 (32 P) N. ... (1 P) S. 1971 in South Vietnam (2 P) Pages in category "1971 in Vietnam" ... List of United States ...