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Bùi Thanh Hiếu was born in 1972 in a small alley in the Đồng Xuân Market in Hanoi, in an area he called "the street of life, a place containing many elements of Gypsy, Mafia". [ 2 ] Growing up Bùi had a rough life, earning money to live through theft, gambling, and collecting debt for rent.
An Lộc is the capital of Bình Long Province located northwest of Military Region III.During North Vietnam's Easter Offensive (known in Vietnam as the Nguyen Hue Offensive) of 1972, An Lộc was at the centre of the PAVN strategy, its location on Route QL-13 near Base Area 708 in Cambodia allowed safeguarding supplies based out of a "neutral" location in order to reduce exposure to U.S. bombing.
The Battle of the Mỹ Chánh Line took place from 5 May to 26 June 1972 during the People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN)'s Easter Offensive of the Vietnam War. South Vietnamese forces, principally the Marine Division, with extensive fire and logistics support from United States forces, succeeded in stopping the PAVN advance northwest of Huế and launched a series of spoiling attacks against PAVN ...
Date Duration Operation Name Unit(s) – Description Location VC–PAVN KIAs Allied KIAs 72: Operation Prek Ta [1]: FANK and ARVN operation against PAVN: 72: Operation Seahawk [2]: US search and rescue operations in the Gulf of Tonkin, on the gun line off the coast, coming under enemy fire on 15 occasions
The new Netflix drama, directed by J.A. Bayona, tells the story of the disaster, which happened in October 1972 when Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashed into the Andes mountains, immediately ...
Carl Robinson, a former Associated Press photo editor in Saigon, alleges that the bureau's chief of photos Horst Faas had ordered him to change credit for the image and "make it Nick Ut". In the 2025 documentary film The Stringer , directed by Bao Nguyen , a group of journalists and investigators claim that the 'Napalm Girl' photograph was ...
The Second Battle of Quảng Trị (Vietnamese: Trận Thành cổ Quảng Trị; also called Operation Lam Sơn 72) began on 28 June 1972 and lasted 81 days until 16 September 1972, when the South Vietnam's Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) defeated the communist North Vietnam's People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and recaptured Quảng Trị Province south of the Thạch Hãn River, a ...
Other notable photographers include Đoàn Công Tính (b. 1943) who picked up photography while in the military academy, Vo An Khanh (b. 1936) who photographed the Mekong Delta, Mai Nam (b. 1931) who worked for the Hanoi Tien Phong (Pioneer) Newspaper, Nguyễn Khuyến who is the founder of the English-language daily Việt Nam News, and ...