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Flag Banner - Viet Cong - Viet Cong Special Forces National Front For the Liberation of South Vietnam - NLF Tet Offensive 1968 - Hue Citadel Rare Viet Cong, Flag / Banner - Silk - Original, perfect condition
Battle of Hue Citadel – Tet Offensive 1968 The Battle of Huế was fought from 31 January to late February 1968 and was one of the largest and longest urban battles of the Tet Offensive. Huế, the former imperial capital and seat of I Corps, was a major political and military objective. The attack was launched by North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong forces under the Trị–Thiên Front. Key units included elements of the PAVN 4th, 5th and 6th Regiments, supported by local VC units and political cadre. Total communist strength committed to Huế is generally estimated at 7,000–8,000 troops. The operation aimed to seize the city, destroy ARVN command structures, and establish a revolutionary administration. In the early hours of 31 January 1968, PAVN and VC forces infiltrated Huế, rapidly seizing most of the city, including the Citadel north of the Perfume River. ARVN headquarters and several government facilities were overrun. Communist forces raised NLF flags and began systematic arrests and executions of South Vietnamese officials, civil servants, police, and perceived opponents; several thousand civilians were later found killed or missing. Defending forces initially consisted of ARVN units, National Police, and U.S. advisers. U.S. Marine and Army units were quickly committed to the fight south of the river, while ARVN forces focused on retaking the Citadel. Heavy street fighting followed, marked by close-quarter combat, artillery, and air support in dense urban terrain. U.S. Marines cleared southern Huế house by house over several weeks. The Citadel proved more difficult; ARVN airborne and marine units fought prolonged battles to dislodge entrenched PAVN forces. By 24 February, organised communist resistance in the Citadel collapsed, and Huế was declared secured. Communist casualties were heavy, with U.S. and ARVN estimates placing PAVN and VC losses at several thousand killed. U.S. forces suffered over 200 killed, ARVN losses were higher, and civilian casualties were extensive. Large parts of the city were destroyed. Militarily, the battle ended in a communist defeat, with no territory held. Strategically and psychologically, Huế was pivotal. It exposed the scale of PAVN conventional capability, shocked U.S. and South Vietnamese leadership, and the mass executions severely damaged communist political standing in central Vietnam. 30th of January 1968 – First Night of the Tet Offensive Whether by accident or design, the first wave of attacks began shortly after midnight on 30 January as all five provincial capitals in II Corps and Da Nang, in I Corps, were attacked. Nha Trang, headquarters of the U.S. I Field Force (FFI), was the first to be hit, followed shortly by Ban Mê Thuột, Kon Tum, Hội An, Tuy Hòa, Da Nang, Qui Nhơn, and Pleiku. During all of these operations, the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese followed a similar pattern: mortar or rocket attacks were closely followed by massed ground assaults conducted by battalion-strength elements of the Viet Cong, sometimes supported by North Vietnamese regulars. These forces would join with local cadres who served as guides to lead the regulars to the most senior South Vietnamese headquarters and the radio station. The operations, however, were not well coordinated at the local level. By daylight, almost all communist forces had been driven from their objectives. General Phillip B. Davidson, the new MACV chief of intelligence, notified Westmoreland that "This is going to happen in the rest of the country tonight and tomorrow morning." All U.S. forces were placed on maximum alert and similar orders were issued to all ARVN units. The allies, however, still responded without any real sense of urgency. Orders cancelling leaves either came too late or were disregarded. 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
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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