FLAG - 1966 - Viet Cong - AN KHE - (The Golf Course) - NLF - Vietnam War - 7503
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Viet Cong Battle Flag - VC Car Flag
National Liberation Front - An Khe - 1966NVA - VC - NLF - Large - National Liberation Front
Measures - 29 x 21inches ( 75 x 54 cms )
An Khe – The Golf Course
Camp Radcliff (also known as An Khê Army Airfield, An Khê Base or the Golfcourse) is a former U.S. Army base in the An Khê District in central Vietnam.
Camp Radcliff was established in late August 1965 by the 70th Engineer Battalion as the base camp for the 1st Cavalr...y Division.
The camp was located on the main highway, QL-19 60 km northwest of Qui Nhơn on the coast and 60 km southeast of Pleiku in the Central Highlands.
The camp was named after 1/9 Cavalry Major Donald Radcliff, the 1st Cavalry's first combat death, who was killed on 18 August 1965 while supporting U.S. Marines in his helicopter gunship during Operation Starlite.
In order to reduce the amount of rotor-blown dust on the landing zone, the men of the 1st Cavalry were instructed to cut back foliage to ground level by hand giving the base its nickname of the Golfcourse.
The 1st Cavalry painted their distinctive insignia on nearby Hon Cong Mountain providing a landmark visible for many miles.
Camp Radcliff was the largest helicopter base in the world at the time of its establishment, capable of accommodating the 1st Cavalry's 400+ helicopters. The base also had an airfield capable of landing C-130 aircraft.
The base had a perimeter of 26 km known as the Green Line with 3-man watchtowers every 50m.
On the night of 3 September 1966 the Vietcong carried out a mortar attack on the Golfcourse.
Starting at 21:50 the base was hit by 119 mortar rounds over a 5-minute period, killing 4 soldiers and wounding a further 76, while 77 helicopters were damaged.
In January 1968 the 1st Cavalry moved to Camp Evans and Camp Radcliff was taken over by the 173rd Airborne Brigade. The 173rd stayed at Camp Radcliff until mid-1969.
The US Army’s, 238th Aviation Company was the last US Unit (officially) stationed at Camp Radcliff departing in December 1971.
Whilst official reports state that Camp Radcliff is now farmland, a visit to the area will see that the runways are well maintained and a considerable military presence in the area. Viet Cong, VC, NLF National Liberation FrontSuper Rare Find, this piece made to be carried into battleor hung from car, often from truck aerials or attached to top of bamboo, hungin 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.
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