12 January 1962: The first helicopter assault of the Vietnam War, Operation Chopper, took place when 33 United States Army CH-21C Shawnee transport helicopters of the 8th and 57th Transportation Companies airlifted 1,036 soldiers of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) into battle agai...
Pop Quiz: 19 Things to Know About the Vietnam War The largest of the northern highland groups speak languages belonging to theTai languagefamily and generally live in upland valleys.Thai, the national language of Thailand, also belongs to this language family.Hmong(Miao) and Mien groups, who ...
During the late fifties, Vietnam was divided into a communist North and anti-communist South. Because of theCold Waranxiety of the time, the general feeling was that, should the North Vietnamese communists win, the remainder of Southeast Asia would also fall to communism. When President John ...
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s history. It was fought between North Vietnam, supported by communist allies such as the Soviet Union and China, and South Vietnam, backed by the United States and its allies. The war ended with the fall of Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) in 1975 and the reunification of Vietnam under...
During the Vietnam War, the United States produced a series of safe conduct passes depicting the flag of the Republic of (South)Vietnam with other allied flags, to encourage defection of Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops. These safe conduct passes and their various vignettes also appeared...
The Vietnam War By late 1961, the Viet Cong had won control of virtually half of South Vietnam with little local opposition. The United States increased its military and economic aid to combat the Communist threat and at the same time put pressure on President Diem for democratic reforms. In...
For migrant female sex workers (FSWs) at the Sino-Vietnamese border, the impact of work time in their current location on the spread of HIV/AIDS is not clear. Data were collected from the Sino-Vietnamese border cities of Guangxi, China. Migrant FSWs work
The Vietnam War (1964 to 1973): nearly 9 million military personnel, over 58,000 deaths (of which almost two-thirds were 21 or younger), some 2,300 missing in action. And that's not including anyone Vietnamese. But every month in a thicket of woodland just outside Wolverhampton, it ...
Vietnam Rats: Regia di Uwe Boll. Con Michael Paré, Wilson Bethel, Mitch Eakins, Erik Eidem. Halfway into the Vietnam War (1959-1975), a special US combat unit is sent to hunt and kill the Viet Cong soldiers in man-to-man combat in the endless tunnels un