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Flag Banner - Viet Cong - Viet Cong Special Forces National Front For the Liberation of South Vietnam - NLF Battle of Ap Bac - Major VC Victory Rare Viet Cong, Flag / Banner - Rare Heavy Silk - Original, perfect condition Viet Cong Battle Awarded Unit Banner National Liberation Front - Unit - Bunker Flag Excellent War Piece - Original - Excellent Condition Very Rare Piece - lined to rear - Large Original Flag
The Battle of AP BAC: ‘It was a miserable…performance,’ Vann raged to Sheehan. ‘These people won’t listen. They make the same…mistakes over and over again in the same way.’ Lt. Colonel – US Special Forces – John Paul Vann One of the First Major Battles of the Vietnam War, the Battle of AP BAC took place on the 2nd of January 1963 at the Hamlet of Bac in the Mekong Delta. The Battle of Ap Bac was the first major victory by the Viet Cong over joint South Vietnamese and US Forces. Commanders: Viet Cong, Hai Hoang - South Vietnamese, Bui Dinh Dam - US, John Paul Vann. At about 7am on the morning of the 2nd of January 1963 (The battle ended mid afternoon), 1400 joint South Vietnamese and US Forces supported by Army Personnel Carriers, Helicopters and Artillery were attacked by a Viet Cong force of approximately 350 Men & Women, less than one third the size of the Allied forces the VC controlled the battle throughout the day downing 5 helicopters, killing 80 South Vietnamese and 3 US Advisors. NB. Original Allied information on this battle indicated that the ARVN had, unbeknown to the VC Force, located and surrounded them. However, prior to his death in 2006, Vietnamese journalist Pham Xuan An, who had access to MACV briefings (was also a Viet Cong Spy and worked with Time magazine) disclosed that information that Ap Bac was actually an ambush designed around information he provided, and the ARVN were in fact lured into the battle.
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. For your kind Consideration Command Control, North, South, Central, MACV, Special Forces, SOG, Special Op’s, Special Operations Group, 5 th Special Forces, Army Security Agency, Military Intelligence, Psy-Ops, US Army, De Oppresso Liber, Airborne, 1 st Special Forces, CIDG, Mike Force, Mobile Guerrilla Force, Mobile Strike Force, Operations Detachment, Provincial Recon Unit, Recon Teams, RT, USMC, United States Marine Corps, Vietnam War, WWII, WWI, French Indochine War, French Foreign Legion, Legion Etrange, Project Omega, Recondo School, Rapid Fire, Project Delta, Special Missions Advisory Force, Project Gamma, Project Sigma, Indigenous Troops, MACV-SOG, CCC, CCS, CCN, USARV, SMAG, TAG, Field Training Command, Recon Team Leader, US Navy, Air Force, AATTV, Long Tan, Nui Dat, AAFV, ATF, New Zealand V Force, Big Red One, 1st Infantry Division, 1st Cavalry Division, Tropic Lightning, 25th Infantry Division, Subdued, Patch, Patches, Uniform, Helmet, Flash, Beret, Arc, Tab, 101 st Airborne Division, 82nd Airborne, 173rd Airborne, Combat, Militaria, Medal, Badge, Map, 199th Infantry Brigade, Old Ironsides, 5th Infantry Division, MAAG, USARPAC, XXIV Corps, 23rd Infantry Division, Americal, 38th Infantry Division, Black Op’s, Clandestine, Non-Conventional Warfare, 11th Infantry Brigade, 11th Armored, 196th , 1st Aviation, 18th Engineers, Medic, Medical, Viet Cong, VC, Viet Minh, Dien Bien Phu, Saigon, Tiger Force Rangers, Ranger, Logistical Command, Khe Sanh, POW, RVN, ARVN, South Vietnam, North Vietnam, NVA, Hanoi, Siagon, Phan Rang, LLDB, Bright Light, Free World Forces, Company, Platoon, Patrol, Long Range, Special Forces, ARVN, Green Berets, Elite, Recon, Reconnaissance, CCN, CCC, CCS, MACV SOG, SOA, Paratrooper, Parachutist, Vietnam War, Special Operations, Military, Tiger, Ranger, Route, Team, VC, NVA, Viet Cong, Command Control, Republic of Vietnam, Assault Helicopter Company, Gunship, Spooky, US Air Forces
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