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The Seventeenth parallel (Vietnamese: vĩ tuyến 17) was the provisional military demarcation line between North and South Vietnam established by the Geneva Accords of 1954. The demarcation line did not exactly coincide with the 17th parallel but ran south of it, approximately along the Bến Hải River in Quảng Trị Province to the ...
1969 map of the Demilitarized Zone. The Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone was a demilitarized zone at the 17th parallel in Quang Tri province that was the dividing line between North Vietnam and South Vietnam from 21 July 1954 to 2 July 1976, when Vietnam was officially divided into 2 de facto countries, which was 2 de jure military gathering areas supposed to be sustained in the short term after ...
17th Cavalry Regiment: South Vietnam: Killed with 3 other soldiers when the explosives on the truck they were unloading exploded, no identifiable remains of SP4 Bridges were recovered [253] Killed in action, body not recovered [3] July 6: Carr, Donald G: Captain: US Army: Mobile Launch Team 3, MACV-SOG: Laos, Attapeu Province
The Viet Cong killed hundreds of Montagnard villagers during the Dak Son Massacre, 1967. R. J. Rummel estimated that PAVN/VC forces killed around 164,000 civilians in democide between 1954 and 1975 in South Vietnam, from a range of between 106,000 and 227,000, plus another 50,000 killed in North Vietnam. [19]
It is located on Highway 15 near the village of Ben Tat, northwest of Dong Ha. It contains the graves of PAVN soldiers killed on the 17th parallel north (Bến Hải River) DMZ and on the Trường Sơn "Long Mountain" Annamite Range Trail (known in the West as the "Ho Chi Minh Trail"). [1]
When all of the Vietnamese had been killed or wounded, the Chinese occupied the reef and began building a bunker. 64 Vietnamese soldiers had been killed in the battle according to Vietnamese reports. [18] [24] Vietnam also accused China of refusing to allow Vietnam's Red Cross ship to recover bodies and rescue wounded soldiers. [25]
The accords called for a cease fire in the war, the independence of Vietnam, its division at the 17th parallel of latitude into two provisional states, North Vietnam and the State of Vietnam (South Vietnam), and the establishment of a demilitarized zone 10 kilometers (6 miles) wide separating the two provisional states. Viet Minh soldiers were ...
17th parallel may refer to: 17th parallel north, a circle of latitude in the Northern Hemisphere Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone, between North and South Vietnam (1954–76) at approximately the 17th parallel north; 17th Parallel: Vietnam in War, a 1968 documentary film; 17th parallel south, a circle of latitude in the Southern Hemisphere