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Viet Cong: South Vietnam
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The Viet Cong was the military arm of the National Liberation Front, the Communist Party of the Republic of Vietnam. Using rare photographs and artwork to paint the portraits of the determined guerrilla warriors, this title discusses their training and motivation, political and psychological indoctrination, and the reality of combat experience.
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There were times when, for military or political reasons, the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces did decide to have it out with the Australians. Heavy engagements ensued such as the battles of Fire Support Bases Coral and Balmoral, the battle of Binh Bah and the battle of Long Tan. Most engagements like these were won by the Australians because the Australian well trained infantry held firm while the air/artillery/armor firepower available to them was expertly directed onto the concentrated enemy.
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In Operation: Vietnam, a chopper flight over the thick jungles of worn- torn Vietnam goes horribly wrong as the transport is shot down deep inside Viet Cong territory. Surrounded by the enemy, players must rally their squad and lead them back to safety. Along the way, players must fend off repeated assaults while liberating oppressed villagers.
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On February 1, 1968--during the Tet Offensive--General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, director of South Vietnam's national police force, executed a Viet Cong prisoner on the streets of Saigon. Photograph by Eddie Adams, Murder of A Vietcong by Saigon Police Chief (Vietnam, 1968) © Associated Press; see AP web page: http://www.ap.org/pages/history/timeline/1965.htm
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These statistics are impressive, and without a doubt the Cambodian expeditions had crippled Viet Cong and North Vietnamese operations, but the most important results cannot be measured in tangibles alone. The armored-led attacks into Cambodia by units from Military Region 4 had been well planned, well coordinated, and well carried out. They were generally conducted without the massive U.S. ground support typical of operations by units from Military Region 3, yet they severely hurt the enemy. The South Vietnamese, their morale high, returned to resume pacification of the delta, a goal which had suddenly come much closer to realization.
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The other task Australian commanders set themselves was the breaking of the vital line of communications between the villages and the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese military units. Fundamental to this aim was control of the rural population, and since 1962 there had been programs of relocation and concentration to achieve this. In Phuoc Tuy Province shortly before the Australian Task Force arrived, the outlying and pro-Viet Cong villages of Long Phuoc and Long Tan were destroyed and their inhabitants moved to more easily controlled hamlets.
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