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Bảo Đại ( Vietnamese: [ɓa᷉ːw ɗâːjˀ], chữ Hán: 保 大, lit. "keeper of greatness", 22 October 1913 – 31 July 1997), [2] born Nguyễn Phúc/Phước Vĩnh Thụy ( chữ Hán: 阮福永瑞 ), was the 13th and final emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty, the last ruling dynasty of Vietnam. [3] From 1926 to 1945, he was emperor of Annam and de jure monarch of Tonkin, which were then ...
The People's Army of Vietnam Special Forces Arms ( Vietnamese: Binh chủng Đặc công, Quân đội nhân dân Việt Nam ), officially the Special Operation Force Arms or Special Operation Arms, [1] is the elite combat armed service of the People's Army of Vietnam, led by the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army. It is uniquely organized, equipped, and trained with special fighting ...
July 2, 1949 – April 30, 1975. Flag of the Provisional Central Government of Vietnam, the State of Vietnam, and the Republic of Vietnam ( South Vietnam ). Or, three bars Gules. A yellow field with three red stripes (2:3). Adopted by Chief of State Bảo Đại and signed into law by Prime Minister Nguyễn Văn Xuân in 1948.
The Viet Cong [nb 1] was an epithet and umbrella term to call the communist -driven armed movement and united front organization in South Vietnam. Formally organized as and led by the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam, [nb 2] and the Liberation Army for South Vietnam (LASV) it fought under the direction of North Vietnam against the South Vietnamese and United States governments during ...
This article is a list of known military operations of the Vietnam War in 1968, conducted by the armed forces of the Republic of Vietnam, the United States and their allies.
During the First Indochina War (1946–1954), Vietnam War (1955–1975), Cambodian–Vietnamese War (1977–1989), Sino-Vietnamese War (1979) and the Sino-Vietnamese conflicts 1979– 1991 (1979–1991), the Vietnam People's Ground Force relied almost entirely on Soviet-derived weapons and equipment systems. With the end of the Cold War in 1992 Soviet military equipment subsidies ended and ...
1973 in the Vietnam War began with a peace agreement, the Paris Peace Accords, signed by the United States and South Vietnam on one side of the Vietnam War and communist North Vietnam and the insurgent Viet Cong on the other. Although honored in some respects, the peace agreement was violated by both North and South Vietnam as the struggle for power and control of territory in South Vietnam ...
Fire Support Base (FSB) Mary Ann was established to interdict movement of North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and VC troops and materiel down the K-7 Corridor and Dak Rose Trail (branches of the Ho Chi Minh trail running from Laos to the coast of South Vietnam). Originally intended to be a temporary base, it evolved into a more permanent location garrisoned by at least one U.S ...