Viet Cong Battle Flag - Car Flag - Viet Cong
National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam - Car Flag - House Flag - Battle Flag
NLF - Communist Army of South Vietnam - NLF - VC
Nui Dat - Victory at Nui Dat - 1968
Excellent War Piece - Original - Excellent Condition
There are no records of direct assaults on Nui Dat combat base during 1968.
Nui Dat - Vietnam War - 1968
Viet Cong Battle Flag - Car Flag - Viet Cong
National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam - Car Flag - House Flag - Battle Flag
NLF - Communist Army of South Vietnam - NLF - VC
Excellent War Piece - Original - Excellent Condition
MẶT TRẬN DÂN TỘC GIẢI PHÓNG MIỀN NAM VIỆT NAM
“National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam” (the official name of the Viet Cong).
CHIẾN THẮNG Nui Dat 1968
“Victory at Nui Dat 1968.”
Nui Dat Combat Base - 1968
In 1968, Nui Dat Combat Base in Phước Tuy Province was the main base of operations for the Australian Task Force and a key allied strongpoint during the Tet Offensive period. It was a primary Viet Cong target but was not overrun.
The communist forces operating in Phước Tuy were under the VC 5th Division, with key subordinate units including the 274th and 275th Regiments and the D445 Provincial Battalion. These units were supported by local-force companies and guerrilla elements. Their strength in the province in early 1968 was several thousand, though forces were dispersed and rarely concentrated against Nui Dat itself.
During the Tet Offensive in late January and early February 1968, Viet Cong forces conducted harassment and diversionary attacks across Phước Tuy rather than a direct assault on Nui Dat. Mortar and rocket fire was directed at Nui Dat and nearby installations, including the Dat Do and Long Dien areas, while coordinated attacks were launched against district headquarters, Regional Force posts, and lines of communication to draw Australian and ARVN units away from the base.
Australian forces at Nui Dat included 1st Australian Task Force, comprising infantry battalions, artillery, armoured elements, engineers, and supporting units, with U.S. and South Vietnamese forces providing additional support in the province. Defensive measures at Nui Dat, including cleared fields of fire, artillery coverage, and rapid reaction forces, prevented any successful ground penetration of the base.
In the months following Tet, VC units continued to operate in Phước Tuy Province, engaging Australian patrols and ambushing convoys. Notable fighting occurred during operations such as Coral–Balmoral and subsequent sweeps, though these were outside the immediate Nui Dat perimeter.
Nui Dat remained secure throughout 1968. Viet Cong strategy in Phước Tuy focused on avoiding decisive engagements with Australian forces while maintaining pressure through small-unit actions, mining, and indirect fire.
NLF - National Liberation Front
The Việt Cộng, also known as the National Liberation Front (NLF), was a communist political organization with its own army – the People's Liberation Armed Forces of South Vietnam (PLAF) – in South Vietnam and Cambodia that fought the United States and South Vietnamese governments, eventually emerging on the winning side
It had both guerrilla and regular army units, as well as a network of cadres who organized peasants in the territory it controlled. Many soldiers were recruited in South Vietnam, but others were attached to the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN), the regular North Vietnamese army.
During the war, communists and anti-war activists insisted the Việt Cộng was an insurgency indigenous to the South, while the U.S. and South Vietnamese governments portrayed the group as a tool of Hanoi. Although the terminology distinguishes northerners from the southerners, communist forces were under a single command structure set up in 1958.
North Vietnam established the National Liberation Front on December 20, 1960, to grow insurgency in the South. Many of the Việt Cộng's core members were volunteer "regroupees", southern Việt Minh who had resettled in the North after the Geneva Accord (1954).
Hanoi gave the regroupees military training and sent them back to the South along the Ho Chi Minh trail in the early 1960s.
The NLF called for southern Vietnamese to "overthrow the camouflaged colonial regime of the American imperialists" and to make "efforts toward the peaceful unification".
The People's Liberation Armed Forces of South Vietnam (PLAF)'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 U.S. embassy in Saigon.
The offensive riveted the attention of the world's media for weeks, but also overextended the Việt Cộng. Later communist offensives were conducted predominantly by the North Vietnamese. The organization was dissolved in 1976 when North and South Vietnam were officially unified under a communist government.
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