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A yellow flag with three red stripes, and the emblem of RVNMF (red eagle) in the middle. Designed by. Design is a variant of the flag of South Vietnam. The flag of South Vietnam was first introduced by the Provisional Central Government of Vietnam in 1948, later served as the national flag of the State of Vietnam and the Republic of Vietnam ...
The Viet Cong [nb 1] was an epithet and umbrella term to refer to the communist-driven armed movement and united front organization in South Vietnam.Formally organized as and led by the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam [nb 2] and nominally conducted military operations under the name of the Liberation Army of South Vietnam (LASV), the movement fought under the direction of North ...
t. e. South Vietnam, officially the Republic of Vietnam (RVN; Vietnamese: Việt Nam Cộng hòa; VNCH, French: République du Viêt Nam), was a country [8][9][10][11] in Southeast Asia from 1955 to 1975, with first international recognition in 1949 as the State of Vietnam. [g] Its capital was located in Saigon, a city in Southern Vietnam.
Presidential flag. 1967–1975: Flag of the Minister of National Defense. 1967–1975: Flag of the Commander of the ARVN Joint General Staff. 1955–1965: Armed Forces flag. 1965–1975: War flag. The emblem Eagle centered on national flag (3:4). 1965–1975: Armed Forces flag. Yellow field with the emblem Eagle . 1965–1975: Army flag.
Flag of the Liberation Army of South Vietnam. [24] A yellow star centered on a red and blue field, and yellow inscription "Quyết thắng" (determined to win) in the upper canton (2:3). Influences: 1965–1975: Republic of Vietnam War flag. Yellow flag with three stripes, and the emblem (gold eagle) in the middle (3:4). Influences: 1965–1975
The fall of Saigon[9] was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by North Vietnam and North Vietnam-controlled 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 ...
By 1967, the war had generated large-scale internal refugees, 2 million in South Vietnam, with 125,000 people evacuated and rendered homeless during Operation Masher alone, [155] which was the largest search and destroy operation to that point. Operation Masher would have negligible impact, however, as the PAVN/VC returned to the province just ...
Vietnam, [e][f] officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, [g] is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about 331,000 square kilometres (128,000 sq mi) and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country.