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CH-21s at Vĩnh Long, February 1963 Airfield facilities, October 1964.jpg The base was originally established in 1963 approximately 3 km west of Vĩnh Long and 48 km southwest of Mỹ Tho . The base was named after Captain Roger Gauvin and SP5 Carleton Upton of the 114th Aviation Company who were killed in action on 15 March 1964.
Ngô Vĩnh Long (April 10, 1944 – October 12, 2022) was a Vietnamese American historian, a professor of History at the University of Maine from 1985 until his death. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Long was the author of the 1973 book Before the Revolution: The Vietnamese Peasants Under the French .
Vietnam War Military unit HA(L)-3 , (Helicopter Attack Squadron (Light) 3), nicknamed the "Seawolves", was a naval special operations aviation squadron unit in the United States Navy (USN) formed in support of United States Naval Special Warfare Command (USNSWC) operations and Mobile Riverine Forces (MRFs) during the Vietnam War .
Ngo Vinh Long, a Vietnamese scholar and writer famous for anti-war demonstrations that angered the South Vietnamese government in the 1960s, died on Oct. 12 at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Bangor ...
The Capture of Vĩnh Long (Vietnamese: Vĩnh Long) on 22 March 1862 was the last major allied victory of the Cochinchina campaign (1858–62). This campaign, fought between the French and the Spanish on the one side and the Vietnamese on the other, began as a limited punitive expedition and ended as a French war of conquest.
Vĩnh Long is a province located in the Mekong Delta of southwestern Vietnam. Its capital is Vĩnh Long. Its population is 1,046,390 and its area is 1,525.73 km 2 (589.09 sq mi). [1] Vĩnh Long (spelled 永隆 in the former Hán-Nôm writing system) is a Sino-Vietnamese name, translating as "eternal prosperity."
During the Vietnam War it was strategically located on the border of North Vietnam and South Vietnam. The tunnels were built to shelter people from the intense bombing of Son Trung and Son Ha communes in Vinh Linh county of Quảng Trị Province in the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone.
This article may be too long to read and navigate comfortably. Consider splitting content into sub-articles, condensing it, or adding subheadings. Please discuss this issue on the article's talk page. (November 2024) Vietnam War Part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War in Asia Clockwise from top left: US Huey helicopters inserting South Vietnamese ARVN troops, 1970 North Vietnamese PAVN ...