LYCOS RETRIEVER 
South Vietnam: North Vietnamese
built 655 days ago
The fate of South Vietnam was decided in Hanoi and Washington. On 23 March the Communist military commanders were given orders from Hanoi to capture Saigon with all possible speed. ARVN was to be given no time to recover and extend its resistance into the monsoon season starting in May. Pres. Thieu still commanded a powerful military and the N. Vietnamese wanted to take the capital without delay. In Washington, Pres.
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Vietnam is a small country to the south of China ('Vietnamese' means "non-Chinese people of the south"). In 111 BC, Vietnam became part of the Chinese Empire. For the next thousand years Vietnam struggled to gain its independence from its much larger neighbour. This was achieved in 938 AD.
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The story of how a Vietnamese family came to live in the small southern town of Rock Hill, South Carolina was written by Lee Simmons and published in the Rock Hill Herald on September 11, 2000. Tu and Khai Phan left their home in Langcat twenty-five years ago in a small fishing boat. With the help of Father Joseph Wahl and the parishioners of St. Anne Catholic Church they established a new home for themselves and eighteen other members of their family. To read this story, click on:
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America had already sent "special advisors" to South Vietnam since 1955. By 1961, there were 1,500 special advisors in the country. These were men from America's Special Forces who were there to train the South Vietnamese Army in how to fight the Viet Cong. By 1963, there were 16,000 special advisors in South Vietnam.
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The main problem with this formula was that whereas the US troops would leave the country, the North Vietnamese troops could remain in their positions in the south. In an effort to put pressure on North Vietnam to withdraw its troops. President Richard Nixon ordered a new series of air-raids on Hanoi and Haiphong. It was the most intense bombing attack in world history. In eleven days, 100,000 bombs were dropped on the two cities. The destructive power was equivalent to five times that of the atom bomb used on Hiroshima.
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The fleet provided direct support to the campaign in South Vietnam with its long-established Amphibious Ready Group and Special Landing Force (ARG/SLF). The powerful, versatile, and mobile formation capable of striking along the length of the South Vietnamese littoral and far inland.
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