Vietnam War
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The Vietnam War was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam and their allies. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union and China, while S
U.S. Army UH 1H Hueys insert ARVN troops at Khâm Đức, Vietnam, 12 July 1970
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Hue Massacre Interment
Bombing in Vietnam
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
Vietnam War
…Ngo Dinh Diem led South Vietnam, which the US assumed financial and military support for. The North Vietnamese supplied and eventually directed the Viet Cong (VC), a communist front in the south that intensified a guerrilla war from 1957. In 1958, North Vietnam invaded Laos, establishing the Ho Chi Minh trail…
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.