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The NVA / VC routinely reconnoitered U. S. air bases for lengthy periods and assessed them for vulnerable points which included terrain, reinforcement approach routes, reaction time of artillery support, and the daily routines of U. S. personnel which included their sleeping and eating times, patrol operations and guard shift changes.
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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.
As NVA / VC activity grew, the United States and South Vietnam became concerned, and in 1969, the United States began a 14 month long series of bombing raids targeted at NVA / VC elements, contributing to destabilization.
Meanwhile, the Communist Chinese established the three-man fireteam concept as the three-man cell when they organized a regular army, and its organization seemed to have been disseminated throughout all of Asia's communist forces, perhaps the most famous of which are the PAVN / NVA ( People's Army of Vietnam / North Vietnamese Army ) and the Viet Cong.
Political officers charged with instruction of the troops on ideological, military, and global affairs formed an essential part of NVA daily routine ( Politische Hauptverwaltung / Political Main Administration ).
The uniform of the Border Troops was distinguished from that of the NVA ground force and Air Force / Air Defense Force by a green armband with large silver letters identifying the wearer's affiliation.
During the North Vietnamese Army ( NVA ) Easter Offensive in 1972, tank clashes between NVA T-54 / PT-76 and ARVN M48 / M41 units became commonplace.
Incoming rocket and mortar rounds fired by the VC / NVA were a daily and nightly occurrence, and skirmishes near the LZ were common.
* Vietnam War, against American intervention into South Vietnam against the NLF / NVA.
In August 1968, elements of the 3rd ARVN Cavalry, along with a reaction platoon from the 2 / 1st Cav, OPCONed to the 4th Inf, foiled an attempted NVA ambush, killing 31 enemy.
The Battle of Ia Drang (" ia Drang " is the montagnard word for " river Drang ") was the first major battle between regulars of the United States Army and regulars of the People's Army of Vietnam ( PAVN / NVA ) of North Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
In 1974, as Deputy Commander of Operations / III Corps, assistant to General Pham Quoc Thuan, Hiếu applied Blitzkrieg ( lightning war ) tactic to alleviate the pressure exerted by 5th Division NVA originating from Svay Rieng Province in the Parrot's Beak area inside Kampuchea territory aiming at Đức Huệ base camp.
Later that day another CH-46 carrying men from 2 / 1 Marines was hit by NVA fire and crashed killing 13 Marines.
The NVA were now aware of the arrival of 3 / 4 Marines and the Battalion started to come under sustained small arms, machine gun and mortar fire.
The NVA launched mortars into 3 / 4 Marines CP in the morning and the Marines responded with airstrikes and artillery.
2 / 4 Marines set off at dawn towards 3 / 4's position and engaged the NVA several times calling in close air strikes before linking up with 3 / 4 at 14: 45.
At 16: 00 a platoon of Marines from the 1st Force Reconnaissance Company rapelled from a MAG-16 helicopter onto the summit of the Rockpile, three hours later they spotted an NVA force to their east and called in artillery fire from 3 / 12 Marines killing 21 NVA and later that night called in further fire on suspected NVA positions south of the Rockpile.
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The allies fought against the North Vietnamese Army ( NVA ) as well as the National Liberation Front ( NLF, also known as Viet communists Viet Cong ), or " VC ", a guerrilla force within South Vietnam.
On the other side, North Vietnamese Army ( NVA ) and Viet Cong ( VC ) forces regularly employed jungle hammocks fabricated from scavenged or captured US parachute cloth and shroud lines.
LZ Carolyn was situated in a location especially irritating to the NVA, astride one of the main access routes for the Viet Cong ( VC ) & North Vietnamese Army ( NVA ) to reach Saigon, its presence was a constant problem for them.
The SLF regularly conducted amphibious operations across Vietnamese beaches into areas of suspected Viet Cong ( VC ) and North Vietnamese Army ( NVA ) activity.
In June 1969, an infantry company from 5 RAR, then on its second tour, and supported by a troop of tanks and a troop of APCs fought a significant combined-arms action against a battalion-sized force of NVA regulars and VC local force troops at the Battle of Binh Ba.
By early 1965 the majority of rural South Vietnam was under limited VC control, increasingly supported by NVA regulars from North Vietnam.
The game ends with only Walker and another South Vietnamese Army soldier named Monty with the rest of the squad dead following a massive joint NVA and VC attack on the Kontum.
The film's first scene illustrates that contention when Green Beret tour guides at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, show civilian visitors to the U. S. Infantry School the Soviet-and Chinese-made weapons issued to the soldiers and guerillas of the communist NVA and VC.
The film also shows the sophisticated spy ring of the VC and NVA that provided information about their adversaries.
Victims of the Đắk Sơn Massacre in Đắk Lắk Province, killed by North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces on December 5th, 1967 as a vengeance attack on the Degar s. NVA / VC troops also killed many women, children and babies.
NVA / VC forces intentionally killed around 164, 000 civilians between 1954 and 1975 in South Vietnam ; Rummel's estimates range from 106, 000 to 227, 000.
Burial of 300 unidentified victims from the Massacre of Hue | Huế Massacre, killed by NVA / VC forces and found after the ARVN and U. S. Marines retook the area in March, 1968 Photo from the U. S. Military.
By striking at USAF air bases the North Vietnamese Army ( NVA ) and VC employed Giulio Douhet's military concept which stated the only effective way to counter air power was to destroy its bases on the ground.
The operations mainly consisted of small-scale skirmishes and were successful in disrupting the VC / NVA, but failed to eradicate them.
The VC / NVA were moving freely in the area again by the end of the year.
When the operations closed, the 101st reported 869 VC and NVA killed and 314 weapons captured, for the loss of 81 US killed.
Over the course of the next several days, the squad battles through miles of unknown jungle filled with hostile NVA and VC and escaping a napalm strike they meet up with " The Chief ", commander of an Army riverboat.
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In the mid-1960s the U. S. Army concluded that a purpose-built attack helicopter with more speed and firepower than current armed helicopters was required in the face of increasingly intense ground fire ( often using heavy machine guns and anti-tank rockets ) from Viet Cong and NVA troops.
Philip W. Manhard, a U. S. senior advisor in Huế province, was taken to a POW camp by the North Vietnamese Army ( NVA ) and held until 1973.
It had been theorized, by both officers and men ( U. S. Army, USMC, USN ) that the, " NVA helos were flying artillery ...", etc.
Populous and rice-rich, the valley was viewed as one of the keys to controlling South Vietnam's five northern provinces by the communists and by early 1967 at least two regiments of the 2nd Division of the People ’ s Army of Vietnam ( PAVN, known to the U. S. Army as the North Vietnamese Army or NVA ) had been infiltrated into the area.
Had the NVA forces circled around to the north of the U. S. positions prior to this point, they would have found their approach unhindered.
Unattrited this would have put the U. S. forces on rough parity with the original NVA forces, three battalions, or about one complete brigade each.
As the NVA clearly did not feel constrained by the " demilitarized " nature of the DMZ, US military leadership ordered a steady build-up of U. S. Marines near the DMZ from 1966 to 1968.
NVA platoon-and company-sized elements repeatedly struck maneuvering U. S. forces from the flanks and rear.
The U. S. brigade commander ordered a coordinated two-battalion assault for May 18, with 1 / 506th attacking from the south and 3 / 187th attacking from the north, trying to keep the 29th NVA Regiment from concentrating on either battalion.
U. S. claimed the 7th and 8th Battalions of the 29th NVA Regiment suffered 630 dead discovered on and around the battlefield, including many found in makeshift mortuaries within the tunnel complex, and an unknown number of wounded that likely totaled most of the remainder of the two units.
U. S. reported the North Vietnamese Army ( NVA ) lost 594 killed and 23 captured, while U. S. casualties were 110 killed and 241 wounded.
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