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Flag of the People's Army of Vietnam: Use: War flag: Proportion: 2:3: Design: A golden star centered on a red field, and yellow words Quyết thắng (Determining to win) in the upper canton. Designed by: Design is a variant of the flag of Vietnam: Flag of the Vietnam People's Public Security: Use: Police flag : Proportion: 2:3: Design
A large yellow star centered on the red field (2:3). Influences: June 2, 1948 – July 2, 1949. July 2, 1949 – April 30, 1975. Flag of the Provisional Central Government of Vietnam, the State of Vietnam, and the Republic of Vietnam ( South Vietnam ). Or, three bars Gules. A yellow field with three red stripes (2:3).
Flag of South Vietnam. A yellow flag with three horizontal red stripes. A yellow flag with three red stripes, and the emblem of RVNMF ( red eagle) in the middle. Design is a variant of the flag of South Vietnam. A large yellow star centered on a bi-colored red and azure field.
The fall of Saigon[ 9] was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by North Vietnam and the Viet Cong on 30 April 1975. The event marked the end of the Vietnam War and the collapse of the South Vietnamese state, leading to a transition period and the formal reunification of Vietnam into the Socialist Republic of Vietnam under ...
The flag has become a symbol for different things: anti-communism, U.S. imperialism, democracy and recollection of the past. Why the defunct South Vietnam flag was flown at the Capitol riot Skip ...
The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 [ A 1] to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and a major conflict of the Cold War. While the war was officially fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam, the north was supported by the Soviet Union, China, and other ...
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, commonly called the Vietnam Memorial, is a U.S. national memorial in Washington, D.C., honoring service members of the U.S. armed forces who served in the Vietnam War. The two-acre (8,100 m 2) site is dominated by two black granite walls engraved with the names of those service members who died or remain missing ...
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima ( Japanese: 硫黄島の星条旗[citation needed][relevant?], Hepburn: Iōtō no Seijōki, lit. 'The Stars and Stripes on Iōtō') is an iconic photograph of six United States Marines raising the U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima in the final stages of the Pacific War.