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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 ...
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.
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
About 400 killed (mainly women, children, and elderly people) French Foreign Legion: Vũng Tàu. massacre. July 21, 1952 Vũng Tàu: 20 killed Viet Minh: Land reform in North Vietnam: 1953–1956 North Vietnam [6] Communist government of North Vietnam under orders from Ho Chi Minh: Quỳnh Lưu uprising: November 2–14, 1956 North Vietnam ...
Killed when the plane he was travelling in crashed [6] 1965, October 2: Kolenberg, Bernard: American: Associated Press: Vietnam: Killed when the A-1 he was travelling in collided with another A-1 and crashed [7] 1965, October 10: Huynh, Thanh My: South Vietnamese: Associated Press: Vietnam, Cần Thơ
Murder, kidnapping, torture and intimidation were a routine part of Viet Cong (VC) and People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) operations during the Vietnam War.They were intended to liquidate opponents such as officials, leaders, military personnel, civilians who collaborated with the South Vietnamese government, erode the morale of South Vietnamese government employees, cow the populace and boost ...
A refugee mother and three of her children living in Utah were killed by her husband in an apparent murder-suicide this month. A 17-year-old boy survived the incident with serious injuries.
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.