The Viet Cong, the Communist rebels, may have lost their stored grain and arms factories.

* 1970 – Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia to hunt Viet Cong.

* 1966 – Vietnam War: The House Un-American Activities Committee begins investigations of Americans who have aided the Viet Cong.

* 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.

* 1966 – Vietnam War: the Battle of Long Tan ensues after a patrol from the 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment clashes with a Viet Cong force in Phuoc Tuy province.

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.

By the mid-1960s, parts of Cambodia's eastern provinces were serving as bases for North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong ( NVA / VC ) forces operating against South Vietnam, and the port of Sihanoukville was being used to supply them.

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.

The native Montagnards of Vietnam's Central Highlands were also known to have used crossbows, as both a tool for hunting, and later, an effective weapon against the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War.

* 1964 – Vietnam War: Viet Cong operatives bomb the Brinks Hotel in Saigon to demonstrate they can strike an American installation in the heavily guarded capital.

* 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 ).

* 1968 – Viet Cong attack the United States embassy in Saigon, and other attacks, in the early morning hours, later grouped together as the Tet Offensive.

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.

Despite being a superpower and having a superior arsenal of weapons at its disposal, the United States was unable to make substantial gains against North Vietnam's proxy guerilla army in South Vietnam, the Viet Cong.

Viet Cong soldiers during the Vietnam War.

* 1967 – Vietnam War: In a propaganda ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, three American prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong and turned over to " new left " antiwar activist Tom Hayden.

* 1968 – Vietnam War: United States Air Force helicopter pilot James P. Fleming rescues an Army Special Forces unit pinned down by Viet Cong fire and is later awarded the Medal of Honor.

* 1965 – The 173rd Airborne is ambushed by over 1, 200 Viet Cong in Operation Hump during the Vietnam War, while the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment fight one of the first set-piece engagements of the war between Australian forces and the Vietcong at the Battle of Gang Toi.

* 1965 – Vietnam War: Just miles from Da Nang, United States Marines repel an intense attack by wave after wave of Viet Cong forces, killing 56 guerrillas.

The Viet Cong used swimmer saboteurs often and effectively during the Vietnam War.

Viet Cong swimmers were poorly equipped but well trained and resourceful.

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.

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.

At Geneva in 1954, to get the war in Indo-China settled, the British and French gave in to Russian and Communist Chinese demands and agreed to the setting up of a Communist state, North Viet Nam -- which then, predictably, became a base for Communist operations against neighboring South Viet Nam and Laos.

The Marines were tipped-off by a Viet Cong deserter who said that there was an attack planned against the U. S. base at Chu Lai.

Westmoreland — and the American media, which covered the action extensively — often made inevitable comparisons between the actions at Khe Sanh and the Battle of Điện Biên Phủ, where a French base had been besieged and ultimately overrun by Viet Minh forces under the command of General Giáp during the First Indochina War.

In Vietnam ADGs conducted both static security tasks and security patrols outside the base perimeter, thus disrupting the Viet Cong ability to conduct stand-off attacks against the bases.

The Củ Chi tunnels were the location of several military campaigns during the Vietnam War, and were the Viet Cong's base of operations for the Tết Offensive in 1968.

Defeating the Viet Cong soldiers that ambushed them, Rhodes and Iron Man discovered an enemy rocket base that was the origin of the rocket fire that grounded Rhodes in the first place.

Destroying the base with a stolen Viet Cong helicopter, Rhodes and Iron Man flew the helicopter back to the American defense perimeter.

The Americans sought to target the Viet Cong 274th and 275th Regiments of the 5th Division, and their base areas in the May Tao Secret Zone.

The Australians defending the divisional fire support base were also heavily engaged during the operation, with the fighting resulting in 14 Viet Cong killed, 12 wounded and 33 captured, while 1 RAR lost four wounded.

Close to a Viet Cong base area yet near enough to Ba Ria to afford security to the provincial capital and facilitate liaison with the local authorities, Nui Dat allowed 1 ATF to dominate a major communist transit and resupply route.

Meanwhile, Wilton's decision to occupy Nui Dat rather than co-locate 1 ATF with its logistic support at Vung Tau had resulted in additional manpower demands to secure the base, even if it arguably best met the task force's operational requirements and allowed it to have a greater impact on the Viet Cong.

Jackson was uneasy about the possibility of a Viet Cong concentration against Nui Dat, fearing a major military and political setback if they succeeded in attacking 1 ATF soon after its arrival and caused heavy casualties or damage to the base.

Although such measures were unusual for allied installations in Vietnam, many of which were established close to populated areas, in so doing the Australians hoped to deny the Viet Cong observation of Nui Dat and afford greater security to patrols entering and exiting the base.

Such measures added to the physical security of the base, disrupted a major Viet Cong support area and removed the local population from danger.

The Viet Cong had continued to observe the base from the Nui Dinh hills regardless.

Yet that afternoon, as 6 RAR commenced a detailed search following its initial sweep, Jackson ordered the battalion to immediately return to Nui Dat in response to South Vietnamese intelligence reports of a large Viet Cong presence close to the base, and it was subsequently airlifted out by early evening.

The Australians had penetrated the Viet Cong base areas to the east and had come off the better during a number of clashes with the companies of D445 Battalion.

A decisive Australian victory, Long Tan proved to be a major local set back for the Viet Cong, indefinitely forestalling an imminent movement against the Australian base at Nui Dat and challenging their previous domination of Phuoc Tuy Province.

The Viet Cong force had been carrying large quantities of ammunition and may have had sufficient strength to seriously damage the base even if its defences were likely strong enough to withstand such an attack.

On the other hand Ford believed that the mortar attack on Nui Dat had served to lure an Australian reaction force into an ambush, arguing the Viet Cong would have been unlikely to telegraph their intentions to attack Nui Dat and that they had left a clear trail to trap any force that was dispatched to find the mortar base plate and RCL positions.

Meanwhile, Honnor believed the mortar attack on Nui Dat on 16 / 17 August had actually been used by the Viet Cong to register targets and that D Company had subsequently stumbled across the communist force as it was preparing to launch an assault on the 1 ATF base two days later, with the encounter battle that ensued preventing this from occurring.

Loc claimed the Viet Cong had estimated Australian strength at Nui Dat at 3, 000 men and that the plan had been to mortar the base to draw a response force into an ambush by two battalions from 275th Regiment and D445 Battalion, while the remaining battalion would capture Nui Dat.