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After the December coup, Taylor credited the fear of US abandonment for having "raised the courage level of the other generals to the point of sacking him", [26] as many were seen as beholden to their desire for personal advancement above all. [30]
The entire Vietnamese 9th Infantry Division (over 4000 men) plus 18 artillery pieces and 27 T-54 tanks and armoured personnel carriers participated in this assault. [37] The Vietnamese deployed both 105 mm and 130 mm howitzers, Soviet-built M-46 field guns with a range of up to 27 kilometres.
2 January U.S. Army UH-1B gunship shot down in the Battle of Ap Bac. The Battle of Ap Bac was the first major combat victory by the VC against the ARVN and U.S. forces. The battle took place near the hamlet of Ap Bac, 65 km (40 mi) southwest of Saigon in the Mekong Delta.
The My Lai massacre (/ m iː l aɪ / MEE LY; Vietnamese: Thảm sát Mỹ Lai [tʰâːm ʂǎːt mǐˀ lāːj] ⓘ) was a United States war crime committed on 16 March 1968, involving the mass murder of unarmed civilians in Sơn Mỹ village, Quảng Ngãi province, South Vietnam, during the Vietnam War. [1]
The elephants all trembled with fear and were wounded by the gun arrows, causing the Vietnamese army to panic. [27] The Ming advanced on their horses, the foot soldiers shot a large number of arrows, handguns, and cannons (pao), [28] and pursued the disarrayed Vietnamese force into the town as they forgot to close the town's gate. As a result ...
The Profile in Courage Award is a private award given to people who display courage in a similar way to those John F. Kennedy described in his book Profiles in Courage. It is given to individuals (often elected officials) who, by acting in accord with their conscience, risked their careers or lives by pursuing a larger vision of the national ...
Võ Thị Sáu (1933 – 23 January 1952) was a Vietnamese schoolgirl who fought as a guerrilla against the French occupiers of Vietnam, then part of French Indochina.She was captured, tried, convicted, and executed by the French colonialists in 1952, becoming the first woman to be executed at Côn Sơn Prison.
The Viet Cong fled the town during the night, others were killed or withdrew after a series of airstrikes and further pressure from 3RAR. Throughout the battle the Australians had been supported by New Zealand troops, with 161 Battery of the Royal New Zealand Army firing 500 shells during the night to prevent further attacks.