Viet Minh
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The Việt Minh, officially the League for Independence of Vietnam, was a communist-led national independence coalition formed at Pác Bó by Ho Chi Minh on 19 May 1941. Also known as the Việt Minh Front,
Viet Minh troops on 2 September 1945
Ho Chi Minh declaring independence at Ba Dinh Square in Hanoi on 2 September 1945
Viet Minh troops on parade in Hanoi
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
Viet Minh
…communists launched an insurgency against the government. North Vietnam also occupied portions of Laos to assist in supplying the insurgents known as the National Liberation Front (Viet Cong) in South Vietnam. As part of the global Cold War, the war gradually escalated into the Second Indochina War, called the "Resistance War…
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.