The Vietnam People’s Army (VPA) (Vietnamese: Quân Đội Nhân Dân Việt Nam) is the official name of the armed forces of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. During the Second Indochinese War (Vietnam War) (1957–1975), the U.S. referred to it as the North Vietnamese...
soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen made during the Vietnam War. 'We are their legacy' Wall: Crosses honor fallen from wars back to World War I Korean and Vietnamese lawyers called on the government to investigate and provide reparations for the alleged killing of Vietnamese civilians by ...
South Vietnamese Soldiers: Memories of the Vietnam War and AfterSouth Vietnamese soldiers: Memories of the Vietnam War and after By NATHALIE HUYNH CHAU NGUYEN...Dror, OlgaSingapore University Press Pte Ltd.Journal of Southeast Asian Studies...
Vietnamese villagers were sometimes welcoming and sometimes treacherous. Most were indifferent to American soldiers, very few of whom could speak their language. As one US soldier in Vietnam asked: “What am I doing here? We don’t take any land. We don’t give it back. We just mutilate...
Biden awards Medal of Honor to 4 for Vietnam War heroism President Joe Biden has bestowed the nation’s highest military honor to four Army soldiers for heroism that he says went above and beyond the call of duty during the Vietnam War. July 6, 2022 Dutch lawyer to get German prize ...
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By 1970, the ARVN was the world's fourth largest army, and the PAVN was not far behind with approximately one million regular soldiers. The war exacted an enormous human cost: estimates of the number of Vietnamese soldiers and civilians killed range from 966,000 to 3.8 million. Some 275...
In contrast to the air attacks on North Vietnam, the U.S.-South Vietnamese war effort in the south was fought primarily on the ground, largely under the command of GeneralWilliam Westmoreland, in coordination with the government of General Nguyen Van Thieu in Saigon. ...
The North Vietnamese also used the Ho Chi Minh Trail to send soldiers to the south. At times, as many as 20,000 soldiers a month came from Hanoi in this way. In an attempt to stop this traffic, it was suggested that a barrier of barbed wire and minefields called the McNamara Line ...
second time — an incident with a claymore mine — the patrol the next day — we are shot at by our own people while bathing in a pool — we receive H & I fire while out on an OP — the Vietnamese Police fire wildly around a village that we were surrounding on a cordon ...