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Reunification Day (Vietnamese: Ngày Thống nhất), also known as Victory Day (Ngày Chiến thắng), Liberation Day (Ngày Giải phóng or Ngày Giải phóng miền Nam), or by its official name, Day of the Liberation of the South and National Reunification (Ngày Giải phóng miền Nam, thống nhất đất nước) [2] is a public holiday in Vietnam that marks the event when the ...
Pétrus Ký. Trương Vĩnh Ký (chữ Hán: 張永記; 6 December 1837 – 1 September 1898), known as Pétrus Ký and Jean-Baptiste Pétrus, was a Vietnamese scholar whose publications helped improve understanding between colonial Vietnam and Europe. His works helped popularize the Vietnamese alphabet, chữ Quốc ngữ, leading to its ...
t. e. The Battle of Kỳ Hòa (Vietnamese: Trận Đại đồn Chí Hòa) on 24 and 25 February 1861 was an important French victory in the Cochinchina campaign (1858–62). This campaign, fought between the French and the Spanish on the one side and the Vietnamese on the other, began as a limited punitive expedition and ended as a French war ...
North Vietnam. Emblem of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. 30 November 1955 – 2 July 1976. Circular in shape; in the middle of a red background is a five-pointed gold star framed by rice ears below which is half a cog wheel and the inscription "Việt Nam Dân chủ Cộng hòa" (Democratic Republic of Vietnam).
Nguyễn Cao Kỳ. Nguyễn Cao Kỳ (8 September 1930 – 23 July 2011) [1][2] was a South Vietnamese military officer and politician who served as the chief of the Republic of Vietnam Air Force in the 1960s, before leading the nation as the prime minister of South Vietnam in a military junta from 1965 to 1967. Then, until his retirement from ...
Flag ratio: 3:4. 1968–1975: Flag of Republic of Vietnam Marine Division. Flag ratio: 3:4. 1949–1955: Flag of Vietnamese National Army. Yellow flag with three stripes, and the name of State of Vietnam (3:4). Influences: 1923 – March 9, 1945: Flag of Tirailleurs indochinois. French tricolor canton on a yellow field (1:1). Influences:
The stamps of South Vietnam were mostly printed in Paris, Tokyo, England (by De La Rue) and Rome during 1954–1967, [6] in Japan during 1967–1973 [7] and in England (by De La Rue) during 1973–1975. [8] Stamps used by military personnel were printed locally [9] and are of inferior quality. 1965 NLF stamp
Operation Enduring Freedom – Horn of Africa (OEF-HOA) is a component of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). [14] The Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) is the primary (but not sole) military component assigned to accomplish the objectives of the mission. The naval components are the multinational Combined Task Force 150 ...