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The Forward Air Controller (FAC) fulfilled many duties during the Second Indochina War.In addition to the usual close air support strike missions to aid South Vietnamese ground forces in their struggle against insurgents backed by the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, he might direct combat search and rescue operations or air interdiction strikes on the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
The Vietnamese Wikipedia initially went online in November 2002, with a front page and an article about the Internet Society.The project received little attention and did not begin to receive significant contributions until it was "restarted" in October 2003 [3] and the newer, Unicode-capable MediaWiki software was installed soon after.
Phạm Hùng, Secretary of the Central Office of South Vietnam (COSVN), outlined the requirements about the ordered anthem: [1] [2] The anthem's targets were all of the population of South Vietnam. The anthem had to call for the armed insurrection against the US-backed Saigon regime and the unification of Vietnam as a whole.
President Ngo Dinh Diem and family at his home in Hue (Central Viet Nam).jpg; President Ngo Dinh Diem on an inspection tour 350 km from Saigon (December, 1956).jpg; Portrait of Ngô Đình Diệm, from the book Ngo Dinh Diem of Viet-Nam.jpg; President Ngo Dinh Diem with the troops who defeated the Binh-Xuyen at Rung-Sat (May, 1955).jpg
Từ điển bách khoa Việt Nam (lit: Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Vietnam) is a state-sponsored Vietnamese-language encyclopedia that was first published in 1995. It has four volumes consisting of 40,000 entries, the final of which was published in 2005. [1] The encyclopedia was republished in 2011.
The Sound of the Violin in My Lai (Vietnamese: Tiếng vĩ cầm ở Mỹ Lai) is a short film that examines the history and legacy of the My Lai massacre, an incident of the Vietnam War in which hundreds of Vietnamese civilians were massacred by U.S. Army soldiers.
David Hackworth was a battalion commander during Speedy Express; according to him, "a lot of innocent Vietnamese civilians got slaughtered because of the Ewell-Hunt drive to have the highest count in the land." Hackworth added that "the 9th Division had the lowest weapons-captured-to-enemy-killed ratio in Vietnam."
Introduced by the Ming dynasty in 1369, during the Fourth Chinese domination of Vietnam, the Ming administration in Vietnam used the Datong calendar. At the start of the Vietnamese Lê dynasty in 1428, the end of Chinese domination over Vietnam, the calendar was not changed. [3] The calendar was calculated using the same method as the Datong ...