Viet Cong
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The Viet Cong was an epithet and umbrella term to refer to the communist-led armed movement and united front organization in South Vietnam. In 1960, it was formally organized as the National Liberatio
A photo from the U.S. Information Agency allegedly showing a 23-year-old Le Van Than, who had defected from the Communist forces and joined the South Vietnam Government side and was later recaptured by the Viet Cong and spent a month in a Viet Cong internment camp.
Brinks Hotel, Saigon, following a Viet Cong bombing on December 24, 1964. Two American officers were killed.
Civilians killed in a Viet Cong land mine explosion
A Viet Cong prisoner captured in 1967 by the U.S. Army awaits interrogation.
Tet Offensive
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The Tet Offensive was both a major escalation and one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War. The North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam and the Viet Cong launched a surprise attack o
Viet Cong
…The VC called for the unification of Vietnam and the overthrow of the American-backed South Vietnamese government. The VC's best-known action was the Tet Offensive, an assault on more than 100 South Vietnamese towns and cities in 1968, including an attack on the U.S. embassy in Saigon. The offensive kept the…
General William C. Westmoreland, COMUSMACV
VC prior to departing for Saigon-Gia Định
VC special forces are sworn into the forces before the Tet Offensive.
VC troops pose with new AK-47 assault rifles and American field radios.