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Vietnam: Commanders and leaders; Xu Shiyou Zhu Yuehua: Nguyễn Duy Thương Nguyễn Xuân Khánh: Units involved; 55th Army 163rd Division; 164th Division; 165th Division; 54th Army. Unit 33980; Vietnamese sources: 700 men [1] 3rd Division 42nd Local Company (regular units). [2] 5th Armed Police Company [1] Casualties and losses
The following is a list of United States aerial victories of the Vietnam War.While U.S. sources claimed 195 North Vietnamese Vietnam People's Air Force aircraft were shot down in air to air combat, the North Vietnamese claim that only 134 aircraft were lost.
The South Vietnam Air Force, officially the Republic of Vietnam Air Force (RVNAF; Vietnamese: Không lực Việt Nam Cộng hòa, KLVNCH; French: Force aérienne vietnamienne, FAVN) (sometimes referred to as the Vietnam Air Force or VNAF), was the aerial branch of the Republic of Vietnam Military Forces, the official military of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) from 1955 to 1975.
A United States Air Force Lockheed C-130B Hercules aircraft was shot down on May 12, 1968, during the Battle of Kham Duc in Vietnam. Everyone on board, 150 Vietnamese civilians, one U.S. Special Forces officer, and 5 U.S. Air Force crewmen, [1]: 138, 139, note 95, 96 were killed.
Nguyen Van Bay was born in 1937 in a place nowadays Sa Đéc City, Đồng Tháp Province.He was the seventh of 11 children. [1] At the age of 16, Bay went North to join the army to fight against the French during the First Indochina War (aka the French Indochina War).
The Battle of Xuân Lộc (Vietnamese: Trận Xuân Lộc) was the last major battle of the Vietnam War that took place at Xuân Lộc, Đồng Nai Province.Over a period of twelve days between 9 and 21 April 1975, the outnumbered South Vietnamese reserves attempted to stop the North Vietnamese forces from overrunning the town and breaking through towards South Vietnam's capital, Saigon.
Tuy Hoa Airport (IATA: TBB, ICAO: VVTH) is located just south of Tuy Hòa within the Phú Yên province, along the central coast of southern Vietnam. It was built in 1966 for the United States Air Force as Tuy Hoa Air Base. It was used by the U.S. Air Force (1966–70) and U.S. Army (1970-71), during the Vietnam War.
During the Vietnam War (or Second Indochina War), Tan Son Nhut Air Base (then using the Southern spelling "Tân Sơn Nhứt") was an important facility for both the U.S. Air Force and the Republic of Vietnam Air Force. Between 1968 and 1974, Tan Son Nhut Airport was one of the busiest military airbases in the world.