* The 202nd Armoured Regiment by Duc Viet ( Vietnamese )

Yet the village was dominated by the Viet Cong, and with a population of 2, 100 the operation would be more complex than that previously at Duc My.

During their brief occupation of Phuoc Long district, the Viet Cong destroyed several major strategic hamlets in the surrounding areas, such as Ba Ra, Thuan Kiem, Thuan Loi, Phu Rieng, Da Kia, Bu Dop, Duc Bon and Song Be.

Under his leadership, allied troops decisively defeated Viet Cong guerrillas and NVA regulars in the battles of Dak To in November 1967, and Duc Lap in August 1968.

* 1968 – Vietnam War: The execution of Viet Cong officer Nguyen Van Lem by South Vietnamese National Police Chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan is videotaped and photographed by Eddie Adams.

Ho Chi Minh, Vo Nguyen Giap, Viet Cong and select members of the Green Berets in the Vietnam War ( and the First Indochina War before that ).

Vo Nguyen Giap, the military leader of the Viet Minh, launched an offensive against the French in early 1950.

By April, 1953, the Viet Minh's People's Army of Vietnam ( PAVN ) invaded northeastern Laos with 40, 000 troops commanded by General Vo Nguyen Giap ; included was a token force of 2, 000 Pathet Lao led by Souphanouvong.

On 1 February General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan, chief of the National Police, publicly executed Viet Cong officer Nguyen Van Lem captured in civilian clothing in front of a photographer and film cameraman.

* Carl Clifton Faith, Nguyen Viet Dung, Barbara Osofsky.

* Nguyen Huu Viet

The operation was thought to have been planned by Colonel Nguyen Thanh Hong, a staff officer from the Viet Cong 5th Division who was likely in overall control.

A year following the battle, Nguyen Van Nuong ( alias Loc ), a Viet Cong soldier who had rallied under the Chieu Hoi program, claimed to have been second in command of a platoon from D445 Battalion at Long Tan.

In an interview in 2005 Nguyen Nam Hung — deputy commander of the 274th Regiment in 1966 — claimed that the combined Viet Cong and North Vietnamese force had indeed intended to destroy 1 ATF and liberate Ba Ria province.

Adams won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography and a World Press Photo award for the photograph ( captioned ' General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong prisoner in Saigon '), but would later lament its notoriety.

On October 22, 2009 Swann Galleries auctioned a special print of Adams's most well-known image, Saigon ( General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong prisoner Nguyen Van Lém ).

* Nguyen Viet Thanh

* Two Fighting Generals Generals Do Cao Tri and Nguyen Viet Thanh

On February 1, 1968, during the Vietnam War, Nguyen Van Lem, a Viet Cong member, was summarily executed by Nguyễn Ngọc Loan, the chief of the national police, in front of Associated Press photographer Eddie Adams, who later won the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography for the photo.

On June 3, 2004, Nam Cam was executed by firing squad at the district 9 rifle range in Ho Chi Minh city, along with his four gang members Pham Van Minh, Nguyen Huu Thinh, Chau Phat Lai Em and Nguyen Viet Hung, the last being the one who shot Dung Ha.

* Nguoi Viet Online Profile: Betty Nguyen

* Audience Choice Award for best short film: Fading Light ( Theo Hướng Đèn Mà Đi ), directed by Thien Do ; and Things You Don ’ t Joke About, directed by Viet Nguyen

* Viet Nguyen, USC

His parents named him for Viet Cong would-be assassin Nguyen Van Troi and Irish Fenian leader Jeremiah O ' Donovan Rossa.

Viet D. Dinh (; born February 22, 1968 ) is a lawyer and a conservative legal scholar who served as an Assistant Attorney General of the United States from 2001 to 2003, under the presidency of George W. Bush.

Nonetheless, the Australia-born still constituted the largest individual birthplace group, at 32. 3 per cent ( 6, 994 persons ), followed by the Lebanon-born at 7. 6 per cent ( 1, 651 persons ), the Viet Nam-born at 6. 2 per cent ( 1, 332 persons ) and those born in the People's Republic of China at 5. 7 per cent ( 1, 234 persons ).

* Viet Dinh ( born 1968 )-Georgetown University Law Center professor, former Assistant Attorney General

She was born from a peasant family in Ben Tre ( Kien Hoa province in the Mekong Delta ), and fought with the Viet Minh forces against the French.

Đỗ Mười ( born 2 February 1917, in Thanh Tri District ) was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Viet Nam from 1991 to 1997, and Prime Minister of Vietnam from 1988 to 1991.

Gen. Taylor will report to President Kennedy in a few days on the results of his visit to South Viet Nam and, judging from some of his remarks to reporters in the Far East, he is likely to urge a more efficient mobilization of Vietnamese military, economic, political and other resources.

The United States, State Department officials explain, now is mainly interested in setting up an international inspection system which will prevent Laos from being used as a base for Communist attacks on neighboring Thailand and South Viet Nam.

`` The important thing from now on '', he said, `` is not to mourn the past but to seize the future opportunity to prevent the loss in northern Viet Nam from leading to the extension of Communism throughout Southeast Asia ''.

* 1965 – Vietnam War: Operation Starlite begins – United States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in the first major American ground battle of the war.

The lyrics were written in honor of Green Beret James Gabriel, Jr., the first Native Hawaiian who died in Vietnam, who was executed by the Viet Cong while on a training mission on April 8, 1962.

As a result of the Geneva Conference on Indochina, Cambodia was able to bring about the withdrawal of the Viet Minh troops from its territory and to withstand any residual impingement upon its sovereignty by external powers.

In response, the United States moved to provide material assistance to the new government's armed forces, which were engaged against both CPK insurgents and NVA forces. The North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces, desperate to retain their sanctuaries and supply lines from North Vietnam, immediately launched armed attacks on the new government.

According to the historian David P. Chandler, the leftist Issarak groups, aided by the Viet Minh, occupied a sixth of Cambodia's territory by 1952 ; and, on the eve of the Geneva Conference, they controlled as much as one half of the country.

Viet Cong forces are suspected of placing a bomb on the ship.

* 1968 – Vietnam War: North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces attack Australian troops defending Fire Support Base Coral, east of Lai Khe in South Vietnam on the night of 12 / 13 May, resulting in heavy casualties on both sides and beginning the Battle of Coral-Balmoral.

At this time, shocked when the student Pacifist Society sent money to the Viet Cong, he founded Alf's Imperial Army devoted to sensational but non-violent warfare and regularly organized battles on campus.

* August 18 – Vietnam War – Operation Starlite: 5, 500 United States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in Quang Ngai Province, in the first major American ground battle of the war.

The symbol of the phoenix could be found on Vietnamese Bronze Drums, on traditional customs of Au Viet tribes in North Vietnam and South China ( Yunnan, Guangxi ).

Pigneau died in Viet Nam, his troops fought on until 1802 in the French assistance to Nguyễn Ánh.

The Viet Cong ( Vietnamese: Việt cộng ), or National Liberation Front ( NLF ), was a political organization and army in South Vietnam and Cambodia that fought the United States and South Vietnamese governments during the Vietnam War ( 1959 – 1975 ), and emerged on the winning side.

" The Viet Cong's best-known action was the Tet Offensive, a massive assault on more than 100 South Vietnamese urban centers in 1968, including an attack on the US embassy in Saigon.

About 90, 000 Viet Minh were evacuated to the North while 5, 000 to 10, 000 cadre remained in the South, most of them with orders to refocus on political activity and agitation.

1964 Brinks Hotel bombing | Brinks Hotel, Saigon, following a Viet Cong bombing on Dec. 24, 1964.

The winter of 1964 – 1965 was a high water mark for the Viet Cong, with the Saigon government on the verge of collapse.

A photo by Eddie Adams showing the summary execution of a Viet Cong in Saigon on February 1 became a symbol of the brutality of the war.

See Chapter 7 on the forming of the Viet Cong, and Chapter 21 on the communist take-over in 1975.