Bien Hoa 1965 - LARGE VC BATTLE FLAG - NLF - VIET CONG - Vietnam War - 8824
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Viet Cong Battle Flag - National Liberation Front - Car Flag - House Flag - Battle Flag1965 - Bien Hoa - US AIR BASE - US COMBAT BASE - National Liberation Front
NVA - VC - NLF - Large Battle Flag
Excellent War Piece - Viet Cong Battle Victory Flag
Extra Rare Measures - 29 x 21 inches ( 75 x 54 cms ) Excellent PieceNLF, NVA, VC - Viet Cong / National Liberation Front
Bien HoaDuring the Vietnam Wars, French Indochina andthe Ameri...can War (1955–75), the base was used by the Republic of Vietnam AirForce (VNAF). The United States used it as a major basefrom 1961 through 1973, stationing Army, Air Force (USAF), US Navy, US SpecialForces and US Marine units there.At all times, between 1967 and 1970, Bien HoaAir base and Tan Son Nhut Air base (Saigon) were alternated between been thefirst and second busiest airports in the world.In December 1960, The U.S. MilitaryAssistance Advisory Group (MAAG) requested the U.S. Navy (the designatedcontract construction agent for the Dept. of Defense in Southeast Asia) to developplans for and construct several jet-capable airfields in South Vietnam, including at Bien Hoa. In December 1961, the American constructioncompany RMK-BRJ was directed by the Navy’s Officer in Charge of ConstructionRVN to begin construction of a new concrete runway, the first of many projectsbuilt by RMK-BRJ at the Bien Hoa Air Base over the following ten years.Fall of Bien Hoa AirbaseIn March 1975 Hanoi made its next seriouslyaggressive move. In the preceding two years, North Vietnam's army patientlymoved into the South enormous quantities of Soviet artillery, surface-to-airmissiles, and armored vehicles, along with 100, 000 fresh troops.On 10 March the North Vietnamese Army began anew offensive in South Vietnam. Northern forces isolated the provincial capitolof Buôn Ma Thuột by cutting off or blocking the main highways to it. It was atBan Me Thuot that the first phenomenon which would increasingly undermine theSouth's morale occurred. Many of its army officers used helicopters to pick uptheir families and flee to the south with them.South Vietnamese civilians then began to fleethe countryside, crowding the main roads and the pathways in a mass exodus forthe coast, where they ultimately jammed seaports seeking transport to thesouth. The refugees included not only those civilians who had helped theSouth's army or the Americans, but also a great mass who expected bad treatmentfrom the communists.By early April of 1975 the end of SouthVietnam was at hand. North Vietnam's forces had severed the roadsaround Saigon and had begun shelling Bien Hoa. On 9 April the ARVN engaged thePAVN at Xuan Loc, located on Highway 1 only 37 miles northeast of Saigon. Xuan Loc fell on 23 April, and there was nowlittle to prevent or slow the Communist advance on Saigon. The loss of Xuan Loc made Bien Hoa Air baseindefensible, although the VNAF continued to fly from the base until PAVNartillery fire forced the evacuation of Bien Hoa on 25 April.
Viet Cong, VC, NLF National Liberation FrontSuper Rare Find, this piece made to be carried into battle or hung from car, often from truck aerials or attached to top of bamboo, hung in offices and from building.
NLF - National Liberation FrontThe Việt Cộng, also known as the National Liberation Front(NLF), was a communist political organization with its own army – the People'sLiberation Armed Forces of South Vietnam (PLAF) – in South Vietnam and Cambodiathat fought the United States and South Vietnamese governments, eventuallyemerging on the winning side.It had both guerrilla and regular army units, as well as anetwork of cadres who organized peasants in the territory it controlled. Manysoldiers were recruited in South Vietnam, but others were attached to thePeople's Army of Vietnam (PAVN), the regular North Vietnamese army.During the war, communists and anti-war activists insistedthe Việt Cộng was an insurgency indigenous to the South, while the U.S. andSouth Vietnamese governments portrayed the group as a tool of Hanoi. Althoughthe terminology distinguishes northerners from the southerners, communistforces were under a single command structure set up in 1958.North Vietnam established the National Liberation Front onDecember 20, 1960, to grow insurgency in the South. Many of the Việt Cộng'score members were volunteer "regroupees", southern Việt Minh who hadresettled in the North after the Geneva Accord (1954).Hanoi gave the regroupees military training and sent themback to the South along the Ho Chi Minh trail in the early 1960s.The NLF called for southern Vietnamese to "overthrowthe camouflaged colonial regime of the American imperialists" and to make"efforts toward the peaceful unification".The People's Liberation Armed Forces of South Vietnam(PLAF)'s best-known action was the Tet Offensive, a massive assault on morethan 100 South Vietnamese urban centers in 1968, including an attack on theU.S. embassy in Saigon.The offensive riveted the attention of the world's mediafor weeks, but also overextended the Việt Cộng. Later communist offensives wereconducted predominantly by the North Vietnamese. The organization was dissolvedin 1976 when North and South Vietnam were officially unified under a communistgovernment. For your kind Consideration.What you see is what you get No Stock Photos used, No Substitutions
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