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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.
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Updated from German map. Fake text added. 05:18, 29 March 2016: 543 × 771 (5.48 MB) Rowanwindwhistler: Smaller file by using a combination of 2 layers for the topographic relief: 10:29, 23 March 2016: 543 × 771 (7.92 MB) Rowanwindwhistler: Vector relief from original file: 07:51, 19 February 2016: 543 × 771 (1.92 MB) Rowanwindwhistler: Font ...
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 ...
Journalist David Halberstam paid tribute to Burrows in the 1997 book Requiem: By the Photographers Who Died in Vietnam and Indochina: [18] I must mention Larry Burrows in particular. To us younger men who had not yet earned reputations, he was a sainted figure. He was a truly beautiful man, modest, graceful, a star who never behaved like one.
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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 ...