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Office of the President of the Republic of Vietnam in Independence Palace, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon). This is a list of leaders of South Vietnam, since the establishment of the Autonomous Republic of Cochinchina in 1946, and the division of Vietnam in 1954 until the fall of the Republic of Vietnam in 1975, and the reunification of Vietnam in 1976.
Creighton Abrams was an U.S. Army General who commanded American military operations in the Vietnam War from 1968 to 1972. Frederick C. Weyand was a U.S. Army General who was the last commander of American military operations in the Vietnam War from 1972 to 1973. Elmo Zumwalt was a U.S. admiral and commander of American naval forces in Vietnam.
The accords were broken almost immediately and fighting continued until the 1975 spring offensive and fall of Saigon to the PAVN, marking the war's end. North and South Vietnam were reunified in 1976. The war exacted an enormous human cost: estimates of Vietnamese soldiers and civilians killed range from 970,000 to 3 million.
Cronkite was born on November 4, 1916, in Saint Joseph, Missouri, [8] the son of Helen Lena (née Fritsche) and Dr. Walter Leland Cronkite, a dentist. [9] [10] [11]Cronkite lived in Kansas City, Missouri, until he was 10, when his family moved to Houston, Texas. [10]
In his book Vietnam: a History (Viking,1983) Stanley Karnow describes his observations: In the last week of November . . I drove south from Saigon into Long An, a province in the Mekong Delta, the rice basket of South Vietnam where 40 per cent of the population lived. There I found the strategic hamlet program begun during the Diem regime in ...
1962–64: South Vietnam was on the ropes under a Revolutionary Guerrilla War approach combining strong organization building, terrorism and guerrilla strikes. 1965–68: The introduction of American airpower and troops presented a massive challenge that directors of the communist effort attempted to meet with a Regular Force Strategy. This ...
The Liberation Army of South Vietnam (LASV; Vietnamese: Quân Giải phóng miền Nam Việt Nam; Chữ Hán: 軍解放沔南越南), also recognized as the Liberation Army (Quân Giải phóng - QGP or Giải phóng quân), was an irregular and regular military force established by the Labor Party of Vietnam in 1961 in South Vietnam [1] as the nominal armed wing of the National Liberation ...
Coast Guard Action in Vietnam: Stories of Those Who Served. Hellgate Press, Central Point, Oregon. ISBN 978-1-55571-528-1. Summers, Harry G. Jr. (1995). Historical Atlas of the Vietnam War. Houghton Mifflin Co., New York. ISBN 978-0-395-72223-7. Tulich, Eugene N. (1975). "The United States Coast Guard in South East Asia During the Vietnam ...