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Vietcong 2 is a tactical shooter video game, developed by Pterodon and Illusion Softworks, published by 2K for Microsoft Windows in October 2005, and set during the Vietnam War. It is the direct sequel to Vietcong .
The Viet Cong [nb 1] (VC) was an epithet and umbrella term to refer to the communist-driven armed movement and united front organization in South Vietnam.It was formally organized as and led by the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam, [nb 2] and conducted military operations under the name of the Liberation Army of South Vietnam (LASV).
Jul 2 – Sep 1: Operation Brandeis Blue [2] 2nd Battalion, 8th Infantry, 4th Infantry Division search and destroy operation: Bình Định Province: Jul 5 – 21: Operation Hancock Gold [2] 1st Battalion, 50th Infantry Regiment and 3rd Battalion, 506th Airborne Infantry Regiment clear and search operation: Bình Thuận Province: Jul 9 – 15
Jan 1 – Aug 31: Operation Rice Farmer [1] 9th Infantry Division and ARVN 5th Regiment operation: Dinh Tuong, Kien Tuong and Kien Hoa Provinces: 1,860: Jan 1 – Dec 31: Operation Quyet Thang II [1] ARVN 7th Division, 9th Division and 21st Division clear and search operations: IV Corps: 37,874: Jan 2: Operation Barrier Reef [2]
The Tet Offensive [a] was a major escalation and one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War.The Viet Cong (VC) and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) launched a surprise attack on 30 January 1968 against the forces of the South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), the United States Armed Forces and their allies.
Murder, kidnapping, torture and intimidation were a routine part of Viet Cong (VC) and People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) operations during the Vietnam War.They were intended to liquidate opponents such as officials, leaders, military personnel, civilians who collaborated with the South Vietnamese government, erode the morale of South Vietnamese government employees, cow the populace and boost ...
Assisted by a U.S. Air Force AC-47 gunship, swift boats PCF-42, PCF-43, PCF-46, PCF-47, PCF-48 and two SVN junks sortied to help the patrol craft chase the trawler to a cove where it ran aground in the Hon Heo Secret Zone [1] [10] [13] At 0230, 1 March, five 81-millimeter mortar rounds from PCF-47 were direct hits and the trawler exploded with ...
The Combined Action Program was a United States Marine Corps counterinsurgency tool during the Vietnam War.It was widely remembered by the Marine Corps as effective. Operating from 1965 to 1971, it placed a 13-member Marine rifle squad, augmented by a U.S. Navy Corpsman and strengthened by a Vietnamese militia platoon of older youth and elderly men, in or adjacent to a rural Vietnames