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Saigon Execution[ a] is a 1968 photograph by Associated Press photojournalist Eddie Adams, taken during the Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War. It depicts South Vietnamese brigadier general Nguyễn Ngọc Loan shooting Viet Cong captain Nguyễn Văn Lém[ b][ c] near the Ấn Quang Pagoda in Saigon. The photograph was published extensively by ...
The Battle of Ban Me Thuot was a decisive battle of the Vietnam War which led to the complete destruction of South Vietnam's II Corps Tactical Zone. The battle was part of a larger North Vietnamese military operation known as Campaign 275 to capture the Tay Nguyen region, known in the West as the Vietnamese Central Highlands .
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Instrument (s) Guitar. Years active. 1958–2001. Trịnh Công Sơn (February 28, 1939 – April 1, 2001) was a Vietnamese musician, songwriter, painter and poet. [1] [2] He is widely considered to be Vietnam's best songwriter. His music explores themes of love, loss, and anti-war sentiments during the Vietnam War ...
Fall of Saigon. Major General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan ( Vietnamese: [ŋʷǐənˀ ŋâwkp lʷāːn]; 11 December 1930 – 14 July 1998) was a South Vietnamese general and chief of the South Vietnamese National Police. [ 3] Loan gained international attention when he summarily executed a handcuffed prisoner of war named Nguyễn Văn Lém on ...
The first bomb detonated at 8:15 p.m. (local time) in a floating restaurant "My Canh Café" at Bạch Đằng Quay on the bank of the Saigon River. 31–32 people were killed, and 42 were wounded. [ 2][ 3] Of the casualties, 13 were American and most others were Vietnamese citizens. [ 3]
During the Second Indochina War, better known as the Vietnam War, a distinctive land warfare strategy and organization was used by the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam (NLF) or better known as the Viet Cong (VC) in the West, and the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) or North Vietnamese Army (NVA) to defeat their American and South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN ...
Bing Olbum. Bing Olbum, 89, went missing while on a hiking trip in Idaho that was intended to last only five days, but resulted in him spending 10 days total in the wilderness. The hiker's camp ...
The Viet Cong [nb 1] was an epithet and umbrella term to call the communist-driven armed movement and united front organization in South Vietnam.Formally organized as and led by the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam [nb 2] and nominally conducted military operations under the name of the Liberation Army of South Vietnam (LASV), the movement fought under the direction of North Vietnam ...