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A map of South Vietnam showing provincial boundaries and names and military zones: I, II, III, and IV Corps. The Viet Cong (VC) insurgency expanded in South Vietnam in 1962. U.S. military personnel flew combat missions and accompanied South Vietnamese soldiers in ground operations to find and defeat the insurgents.
In 1962, the U.S. Military Assistance Command–Vietnam (MACV) established Army Special Forces camps near villages. The Americans wanted a military presence there to block the infiltration of enemy forces from Laos, to provide a base for launching patrols into Laos to monitor the Ho Chi Minh Trail, and to serve as a western anchor for defense ...
January 1 - The People's Revolutionary Party was founded as a Marxist–Leninist political party in South Vietnam, and its leaders receiving instruction directly from the Lao Dong Party of North Vietnam. [1] January 3 - The first United States military transport aircraft arrive in South Vietnam. The aircraft would be used to transport South ...
Burrows went on to become a photographer and covered the war in Vietnam from 1962 until his death in 1971. [9]One of Burrows' most famous images was published first in a Life magazine article on 16 April 1965 named One Ride with Yankee Papa 13, about a mission on 31 March 1965.
South Vietnam, Bạc Liêu Province, Sóc Trăng: Killed when his North American T-28 Trojan was hit by ground fire on a close air support mission [17] Killed in action, body not recovered [3] October 6: Anderson, Thomas E: Corporal: USMC: HMM-163: South Vietnam, Quảng Nam Province: Crew chief on a UH-34D which crashed due to mechanical ...
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The Battle of Ấp Bắc was a major battle fought on 2 January 1963 during the Vietnam War in Định Tường Province (now part of Tiền Giang Province), South Vietnam. On 28 December 1962, US intelligence detected the presence of a radio transmitter along with a sizable force of Viet Cong (VC) soldiers, reported to number around 120, in ...
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