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North Vietnam withdrew its diplomats from Cambodia. [3]: 331 26 March. North Vietnam refused an offer by South Vietnam for the release and repatriation of 343 wounded or ill prisoners of war, declaring that there were no members of the PAVN in the south. The North Vietnamese representatives at the Paris Peace Talks asserted that the captives ...
In 1975, photojournalist Hubert van Es, working for UPI, captured an iconic photo of U.S. government employees evacuating the city by helicopter during the Fall of Saigon, the last major battle of the Vietnam War. The photo depicts an Air America Huey helicopter landed on the roof of the elevator shaft of the building, evacuating employees as ...
1 January. U.S. military personnel in South Vietnam totaled 334,600 on 31 December 1970. [3]: 359 1 January - May 1971. Project Copper was an unsuccessful operation to use three Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)-trained Cambodian irregular force battalions to interdict the Sihanouk Trail.
Naval Operations in Vietnam; Access to primarily Marine Corps, and some Army, Navy and Air Force operational reports at Texas Tech Universities Virtual Vietnam Archives; The short film ACTIVITIES OF THE 3/17 AIR CAVALRY (1970) is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
The Apple TV+ docuseries doesn't feature pundits or historians as talking heads, focusing instead on the people on the ground, from soldiers to nurses to Vietnamese civilians.
The fall of Saigon [9] was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by North Vietnam on 30 April 1975. This decisive event led to the collapse of the South Vietnamese government and the evacuation of thousands of U.S. personnel and South Vietnamese civilians, and marked the end of the Vietnam War .
The 1st Infantry Division had its headquarters at Dĩ An from February 1966 until September 1967 and from November 1969 until April 1970. [2] Other units stationed at Dĩ An included: 1st Battalion, 7th Artillery (1967-April 1970) [2]: 98 12th Aviation Group comprising: 7th Squadron, 1st Cavalry (February–June 1968) [2]: 125
Following the departure of the U.S. forces in 1972, Củ Chi became the base of the ARVN 25th Division. [1]As the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) forces closed in on Saigon in late April 1975, the camp was hit by PAVN artillery fire on 28 April and besieged the PAVN. 25th Division commander Major general Lý Tòng Bá ordered his forces to fight in place, but on the morning of 29 April after ...