Steel and Blood: South Vietnamese Armor and the War for Southeast AsiaNaval Institute Press, 1 окт. 2008 г. - Всего страниц: 240 When South Vietnam was abandoned by its American allies and consequently defeated by the North Vietnamese in 1975, all its military records were lost to the enemy. This has led to a paucity of factually based analyses of the war by South Vietnamese authors. In a project lasting some ten years, and financed by his own hard-earned resources, Colonel Viet has researched, documented, and analyzed the Vietnam War from the perspective of South Vietnamese armor forces, elements in which he himself played an important role as leader, teacher, and innovator. His travels to interview hundreds of people with first-hand knowledge of these matters took him back and forth across the United States (and to Canada, France and Australia) and enabled him to piece together the story as recalled by virtually every senior South Vietnamese who was involved, along with many of lesser rank but important experience, and many Americans as well. The result is a unique and invaluable work, one recounting from the early days of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam its organization and development, its combat operations, and its interaction with American advisors and then later with deployed American units. Viet tells this story as an historian would, not glossing over the shortcomings and failures of his fellow Vietnamese soldiers (or of the Americans), but also providing definitive accounts of their successes, their innovations, their courage and determination, and the hardships experienced and survived in the course of a long, difficult, and ultimately unsuccessful struggle. In Colonel Viet's words: "In order to give the truth back to history, we did not hide anything, whether it be victory or defeat." Finally, in a very touching portion of the work, Colonel Viet memorializes his fallen comrades of the armored force and commemorates the service of all the American advisors to the armored force he was able to identify. |
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... March 1961, the National Liberation Front announced thata guerrilla campaign against the South Vietnamese government wouldbe launched on 9April 1961,the dateof the South Vietnamese presidential election. On 7 February 1961, two U.S. ...
... March 1961, the National Liberation Front announced thata guerrilla campaign against the South Vietnamese government wouldbe launched on 9April 1961,the dateof the South Vietnamese presidential election. On 7 February 1961, two U.S. ...
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... March 1961more thantwo VC battalions attacked anARVN battalion in Cao Lanh,Kien Phong Province. Two hundredVC soldierswere killed or wounded. ARVN lost eleven menkilled andtwentythree wounded. —On1 April 1961four hundred guerrillas ...
... March 1961more thantwo VC battalions attacked anARVN battalion in Cao Lanh,Kien Phong Province. Two hundredVC soldierswere killed or wounded. ARVN lost eleven menkilled andtwentythree wounded. —On1 April 1961four hundred guerrillas ...
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... March 1972 —Spring 1972, theFlaming Front Lines — 1stCavalry Brigade onthe Front Lines — TheRecapture ofthe Quang Tri Citadel TheVietnameseCambodian Border Front, April 1972 —Heroic Binh Long TheCentral Highlands Front, April 1972: The ...
... March 1972 —Spring 1972, theFlaming Front Lines — 1stCavalry Brigade onthe Front Lines — TheRecapture ofthe Quang Tri Citadel TheVietnameseCambodian Border Front, April 1972 —Heroic Binh Long TheCentral Highlands Front, April 1972: The ...
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... march on footto thehelicopter crash site.Even though this might take some time, it would certainly befaster than 7th Company (M113) couldget there.I had no idea how long it wouldtake usto cross theLan Canal to reachthe objective. My ...
... march on footto thehelicopter crash site.Even though this might take some time, it would certainly befaster than 7th Company (M113) couldget there.I had no idea how long it wouldtake usto cross theLan Canal to reachthe objective. My ...
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... steel hulled vessels carrying weapons and ammunition. Theships were interceptedat DucPho inlet inQuang Ngai Province,Bo Deinlet inAnXuyen Province, and Dam Van Bayin Khanh Hoa Province. In addition, on1 March 1968 Vietnamese andU.S.
... steel hulled vessels carrying weapons and ammunition. Theships were interceptedat DucPho inlet inQuang Ngai Province,Bo Deinlet inAnXuyen Province, and Dam Van Bayin Khanh Hoa Province. In addition, on1 March 1968 Vietnamese andU.S.
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CombatHistory Chapter 1 FerociousBattles 196368 | |
The Capture of South Vietnam | |
Historical Background | |
Vietnam National Army | |
Vietnamese Armored Cavalry | |
Armor before 1975 | |
Maps Abbreviations | |
Selected Bibliography | |
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