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Saigon, South Vietnam 22 killed Viet Cong: 1965 Saigon bombing: June 25, 1965 Saigon River, Saigon, South Vietnam: 42 killed Viet Cong: Bình An/Tây Vinh massacre (disputed) February 12, 1966 – March 17, 1966 Tây Sơn District of Bình Định Province, South Vietnam: 1,004 killed Republic of Korea Armed Forces: Binh Tai massacre (disputed ...
The Phu Loi Prison for Viet Minh prisoners and later opponents of the Ngo Dinh Diem government is now a museum. Little remains of the airfield built by the Japanese in the Second World War and subsequently used by U.S. Army aviation units during the Vietnam War.
While Chiang Kai-shek, Xiao Wen (Hsiao Wen) and the Kuomintang central government of China was disinterested in occupying Vietnam beyond the allotted time period and involving itself in the war between the Viet Minh and the French, Lu Han held the opposite view and wanted to occupy Vietnam to prevent the French returning and establish a Chinese ...
Oct. 23—The Vietnam War was over a generation ago but it was a long time before many of its soldiers were able to come out and say they had fought in the conflict. Today, they are there at the ...
During the French Indochina War (1946–1954), the PAVN was often referred to as the Việt Minh. In the context of the Vietnam War (1955–1975), the army was referred to by its opposition forces as the North Vietnamese Army (NVA; Vietnamese: Quân đội Bắc Việt), serving as the military force of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
By 1968 the Bien Hoa-Long Binh complex was the largest US/South Vietnamese military base in South Vietnam.Bien Hoa Air Base was the largest air base in the country, home to over 500 United States Air Force (USAF) and Republic of Vietnam Air Force (RVNAF) aircraft, while Long Binh Post was the US Army's largest logistics base, headquarters of United States Army Vietnam (USARV), the II Field ...
Tet 1969 refers to the attacks mounted by the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and Viet Cong (VC) in February 1969 in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War, one year after the original Tet Offensive. Most attacks centered on military targets near Saigon and Da Nang and were quickly beaten off.
The fighting in Saigon produced one of the Vietnam War's most famous images, photographer Eddie Adams' image of the summary execution of a VC prisoner on February 1, 1968. Nguyễn Văn Lém was captured by South Vietnamese national police, who identified him as the captain of a VC assassination and revenge platoon, and accused him of murdering ...