NVA FLAG - Tet Offensive 1968 - Vietnam War - NORTH VC ARMY - Quyet Thang - 5082

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Rare North Vietnam Army - Flag - Car Flag - VC - Viet Cong
Measures - 29 x 21 inches ( 75 x 54 cms )
Excellent Piece - Viet Cong
1968 Qyuet Thang - Victory Flag - Tet Offensive
Note: Flag has been professionally cleaned and is ready for use, hanging, framing etc.
Viet Cong Battle Flag - Car Flag - Viet Cong
Excellent War Piece - Original - Excellent Condition
Measures - 29 x 21 inches (75 x 54 cms)
Excellent Piece
NLF, NVA, VC  - Viet Cong / National Liberation Front
30th of January 1968 – First Night of the Tet Offensive
Whether by accident or design, the first wave of attacks began shortly after midnight on 30 January as all five provincial capitals in II Corps and Da Nang, in I Corps, were attacked.
Nha Trang, headquarters of the U.S. I Field Force (FFI), was the first to be hit, followed shortly by Ban Mê Thuột, Kon Tum, Hội An, Tuy Hòa, Da Nang, Qui Nhơn, and Pleiku.
During all of these operations, the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese followed a similar pattern: mortar or rocket attacks were closely followed by massed ground assaults conducted by battalion-strength elements of the Viet Cong, sometimes supported by North Vietnamese regulars.
These forces would join with local cadres who served as guides to lead the regulars to the most senior South Vietnamese headquarters and the radio station.
The operations, however, were not well coordinated at the local level.
By daylight, almost all communist forces had been driven from their objectives.
General Phillip B. Davidson, the new MACV chief of intelligence, notified Westmoreland that "
This is going to happen in the rest of the country tonight and tomorrow morning."
All U.S. forces were placed on maximum alert and similar orders were issued to all ARVN units. The allies, however, still responded without any real sense of urgency. Orders cancelling leaves either came too late or were disregarded.
NVA – North Vietnam Army
During the French Indochina War (1946–1954), the PAVN was often referred to as the Việt Minh.
In the context of the Vietnam War (1959–1975), the army was referred to as the North Vietnamese army (NVA) or the Peoples Army of Vietnam (PAVN).
This allowed writers, the U.S. military, and the general public, to distinguish northern communists from the southern communists, or Viet Cong.
However, both groups ultimately worked under the same command structure.
Soon after the 1954 Geneva Accords, the 330th and 338th Divisions were formed by southern Vietminh members who had moved north in conformity with that agreement, and by 1955, six more divisions were formed: the 328th, 332nd, and 350th in the north of the DRV, the 305th and the 324th near the DMZ, and the 335 Division of soldiers repatriated from Laos. In 1957, the theatres of the war with the French were reorganised as the first five military regions, and in the next two years, several divisions were reduced to brigade size to meet the manpower requirements of collective farms.
By 1958 it was becoming increasingly clear that the South Vietnamese government was solidifying its position as an independent republic under Ngô Đình Diệm who staunchly opposed the terms of the Geneva Accord that required a national referendum on unification of north and south Vietnam under a single national government, and North Vietnam prepared to settle the issue of unification by force.
In May 1959 the first major steps to prepare infiltration routes into South Vietnam were taken; Group 559 was established, a logistical unit charged with establishing routes into the south via Laos and Cambodia, which later became famous as the Ho Chi Minh trail.
At about the same time, Group 579 was created as its maritime counterpart to transport supplies into the South by sea. Most of the early infiltrators were members of the 338th Division, former southerners who had been settled at Xuan Mai from 1954 onwards.
Regular formations were sent to Southern Vietnam from 1965 onwards.
Although the PAVN lost militarily to the US forces and ARVN in the south, the political impact of the war in the United States was strong.
In 1975 the PAVN were successful in aiding the Khmer Rouge in toppling the Lon Nol's US-backed regime, despite heavy US bombing.
After the withdrawal of most United States' combat forces from Indochina because of the Vietnamization strategy, the PAVN launched the ill-fated Easter Offensive in 1972. Although successful at the beginning, the South Vietnamese repulsed the main assaults with U.S. air support. Still North Vietnam gained significant territories.
Nearly two years after the full United States' withdrawal from Indochina in accord with the terms of the 1973 Paris Peace Accords, the PAVN launched a Spring Offensive aimed at uniting Vietnam.
Without direct support of its US ally, and suffering from stresses caused by dwindling aid, the ARVN was ill-prepared to confront the highly motivated PAVN, and despite numerical superiority of the ARVN in tactical aircraft, armoured vehicles and overwhelming three to one odds in regular troops, the PAVN quickly secured victory within two months and captured Saigon on 30 April 1975, effectively ending the 70 years of conflict stemming from French colonial invasion of the 19th century and unifying Vietnam.
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