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Although there have been many chances for a Vietnamese Soldier to be injured with combat with the Japanese, French, The United States, Australia and other Vietnamese. This badge has come to me from the DPRK which could suggest that this was issued to a Korean who was injured whilst combating or advising in Vietnam.

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Although there have been many chances for a Vietnamese Soldier to be injured with combat with the Japanese, French, The United States, Australia and other Vietnamese. This badge has come to me from the DPRK which could suggest that this was issued to a Korean who was injured whilst combating or advising in Vietnam.

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If you have some info share please

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If you have some info share please

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  DSC01880.jpg (Size: 28.41 KB / Downloads: 5) ]]> https://soviet-awards.com/forum/Thread-Badge-50th-Anniversary-Of-The-New-Woman Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:35:18 +0000 Taz]]> https://soviet-awards.com/forum/Thread-Badge-50th-Anniversary-Of-The-New-Woman During Vietnam's many conflicts women have played key roles in the NLF, PAVN, industry and farming, earning some of the highest awards including the Military Exploits Order and the Hero of Labour Decoration.

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  008099-1b.jpg (Size: 39.97 KB / Downloads: 2) ]]> https://soviet-awards.com/forum/Thread-H%E1%BB%93-Ch%C3%AD-Minh-Communist-Youth-Union-Membership-Badge Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:18:30 +0000 Taz]]> https://soviet-awards.com/forum/Thread-H%E1%BB%93-Ch%C3%AD-Minh-Communist-Youth-Union-Membership-Badge Upon acceptance, they are issued these enamel badges together with a 16 page 3”x 4” document known as the Doan Vien. This has their personal details and record of payment of the party dues.
The Original Communist Party Youth Badge is inscribed DOAN THANH NIEN NHAN DAN CACH MANG HO CHI MINH (Peoples Revolutionary Ho Chi Minh Youth Group)
Later badges were inscribed DOAN THANH LAO DONG VIET-NAM (Vietnam Workers Party) and the current issue DOAN THANH NIEN CONG SAN HO CHI MINH (Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Group). The change was apparently made to commemorate the memory of Ho Chi Minh after his death in 1969.
The party book DOAN VIEN translates as Certificate of Group Membership and the date of it’s issue determines the price, the older it is the more valuable.

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The Original Communist Party Youth Badge is inscribed DOAN THANH NIEN NHAN DAN CACH MANG HO CHI MINH (Peoples Revolutionary Ho Chi Minh Youth Group)
Later badges were inscribed DOAN THANH LAO DONG VIET-NAM (Vietnam Workers Party) and the current issue DOAN THANH NIEN CONG SAN HO CHI MINH (Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Group). The change was apparently made to commemorate the memory of Ho Chi Minh after his death in 1969.
The party book DOAN VIEN translates as Certificate of Group Membership and the date of it’s issue determines the price, the older it is the more valuable.

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The Easter Offensive, officially, the Nguyen Hue Offensive and also Chiến dịch Xuân hè 1972 in Vietnamese) was a military campaign conducted by the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) against the armed forces of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) and the United States between 30th March and 22nd October 1972, during the Vietnam War. This conventional invasion (the largest offensive operation since 300,000 Chinese "volunteers" had crossed the Yalu River into South Korea during the Korean War) was a radical departure from previous North Vietnamese offensives. Although not designed to win the war outright, North Vietnam hoped to gain as much territory and destroy as many units of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) as possible.
The allied high command had been expecting an attack sometime during 1972, but the size and ferocity of the assault caught the defenders off balance because the attackers struck on three fronts simultaneously with the bulk of the North Vietnamese army. This first attempt by the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) to invade the south since the Tet Offensive of 1968 became characterized by conventional infantry/armor assaults backed by heavy artillery, with both sides fielding the latest in technological advances in weapons systems.
In the Ist Corps Tactical Zone, North Vietnamese forces overran South Vietnamese defensive positions in a month-long battle and captured Quang Tri city before moving south in an attempt to seize Hue. PAVN similarly eliminated frontier defense forces in IInd Corps and advanced to seize the provincial capital of Kontum, which would have opened the way to the sea, splitting South Vietnam in two. Northeast of Saigon in IIIrd Corps, the communists overran Loc Ninh and advanced to assault the capital of Binh Long Province at An Loc. The campaign can be divided into three distinct phases: April was a month of communist advances and allied withdrawals; May became a period of equilibrium; in June and July the South Vietnamese forces counterattacked, culminating in the recapture of Quang Tri City in September.
On all three fronts of the offensive, initial North Vietnamese successes were hampered by high casualties, inept tactics, and the increasing application of U.S. and South Vietnamese air power. One result of the offensive was the launching of Operation Linebacker, the first sustained bombing of North Vietnam by the U.S. since November 1968. Although South Vietnamese forces withstood their greatest trial thus far in the conflict, the North Vietnamese accomplished two important goals: they had gained valuable territory within South Vietnam from which to launch any future offensives, and they had obtained a better bargaining position at the peace negotiations being conducted in Paris.

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The Easter Offensive, officially, the Nguyen Hue Offensive and also Chiến dịch Xuân hè 1972 in Vietnamese) was a military campaign conducted by the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) against the armed forces of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) and the United States between 30th March and 22nd October 1972, during the Vietnam War. This conventional invasion (the largest offensive operation since 300,000 Chinese "volunteers" had crossed the Yalu River into South Korea during the Korean War) was a radical departure from previous North Vietnamese offensives. Although not designed to win the war outright, North Vietnam hoped to gain as much territory and destroy as many units of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) as possible.
The allied high command had been expecting an attack sometime during 1972, but the size and ferocity of the assault caught the defenders off balance because the attackers struck on three fronts simultaneously with the bulk of the North Vietnamese army. This first attempt by the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) to invade the south since the Tet Offensive of 1968 became characterized by conventional infantry/armor assaults backed by heavy artillery, with both sides fielding the latest in technological advances in weapons systems.
In the Ist Corps Tactical Zone, North Vietnamese forces overran South Vietnamese defensive positions in a month-long battle and captured Quang Tri city before moving south in an attempt to seize Hue. PAVN similarly eliminated frontier defense forces in IInd Corps and advanced to seize the provincial capital of Kontum, which would have opened the way to the sea, splitting South Vietnam in two. Northeast of Saigon in IIIrd Corps, the communists overran Loc Ninh and advanced to assault the capital of Binh Long Province at An Loc. The campaign can be divided into three distinct phases: April was a month of communist advances and allied withdrawals; May became a period of equilibrium; in June and July the South Vietnamese forces counterattacked, culminating in the recapture of Quang Tri City in September.
On all three fronts of the offensive, initial North Vietnamese successes were hampered by high casualties, inept tactics, and the increasing application of U.S. and South Vietnamese air power. One result of the offensive was the launching of Operation Linebacker, the first sustained bombing of North Vietnam by the U.S. since November 1968. Although South Vietnamese forces withstood their greatest trial thus far in the conflict, the North Vietnamese accomplished two important goals: they had gained valuable territory within South Vietnam from which to launch any future offensives, and they had obtained a better bargaining position at the peace negotiations being conducted in Paris.

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The Ho Chi Minh Campaign (Vietnamese: Chiến dịch Hồ Chí Minh), was the final title applied to a series of increasingly large-scale and ambitious offensive operations by the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) which began on 13th December 1974. The eventual goal of these operations was to defeat the armed forces and force the surrender of the government of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam). After the initial success of what was to be a limited campaign in Phuoc Long Province, the North Vietnamese leadership increased the scope of the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN)'s offensive and quickly threatened the Central Highlands city of Ban Me Thuot.
The new communist offensive was different from the ill-fated Easter Offensive of 1972. The subsequent resignaton of U.S. President Richard M. Nixon following the fallout of the Watergate scandal meant that the diplomatic promises of the disgraced former president would not be honoured by the United States Congress. Decreases in American military aid, which had become the lifeblood of South Vietnam's armed forces, created material and psychological turmoil in an army steeped in the American way of war. Inability to cope with the situation and find alternative military methodologies contributed heavily to the rapidity of South Vietnam's collapse. The gradual impact of this perceived American abandonment of South Vietnam on the psyche of that nation's political and military leadership and civilian population was devastating.
The South Vietnamese government, alarmed at the speed and ease with which the North Vietnamese offensive was proceeding, attempted to regroup its forces by truncating the area that its troops had to defend, thereby surrendering space for time. This attempt, however, provoked the civilian population in the effected areas to take to the roads, making coherent military movements virtually impossible. This situation was exacerbated by confusing orders, lack of command and control, and a well-led and aggressive enemy, which led to the fall of Ban Me Thuot and the destruction of the bulk of an entire Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) corps in the Central Highlands.
A similar attempt to reduce defended areas in the northern provinces (this time to coastal enclaves) and to create a strategic national reserve met a similar fate, as command confusion, massive refugee migrations, and, in the end, total anarchy prevented any coherent defense and led to the utter collapse of ARVN's forces and the loss of the northern two-thirds of the country. Surprised by the rapidity of the South Vietnamese collapse, the objective of the communist campaign then became the transfer of the bulk of its northern forces more than 350 miles to the south in order to capture the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon in time for the northerners to celebrate their late President Ho Chi Minh's birthday and end the war.
South Vietnamese forces regrouped around the capital and managed to conduct a commendable defense of the key transportation hub at Xuan Loc, but a loss of political and military will to continue the fight were becoming ever more manifest. Under political pressure, South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu resigned from office on 21 April, in hopes that a new leader that was more amenable to the North Vietnamese could reopen negotiations with them. It was, however, far too late. With PAVN spearheads already entering Saigon, the South Vietnamese government, then under the leadership of Duong Van Minh, capitulated on 30th April 1975.

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The Ho Chi Minh Campaign (Vietnamese: Chiến dịch Hồ Chí Minh), was the final title applied to a series of increasingly large-scale and ambitious offensive operations by the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) which began on 13th December 1974. The eventual goal of these operations was to defeat the armed forces and force the surrender of the government of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam). After the initial success of what was to be a limited campaign in Phuoc Long Province, the North Vietnamese leadership increased the scope of the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN)'s offensive and quickly threatened the Central Highlands city of Ban Me Thuot.
The new communist offensive was different from the ill-fated Easter Offensive of 1972. The subsequent resignaton of U.S. President Richard M. Nixon following the fallout of the Watergate scandal meant that the diplomatic promises of the disgraced former president would not be honoured by the United States Congress. Decreases in American military aid, which had become the lifeblood of South Vietnam's armed forces, created material and psychological turmoil in an army steeped in the American way of war. Inability to cope with the situation and find alternative military methodologies contributed heavily to the rapidity of South Vietnam's collapse. The gradual impact of this perceived American abandonment of South Vietnam on the psyche of that nation's political and military leadership and civilian population was devastating.
The South Vietnamese government, alarmed at the speed and ease with which the North Vietnamese offensive was proceeding, attempted to regroup its forces by truncating the area that its troops had to defend, thereby surrendering space for time. This attempt, however, provoked the civilian population in the effected areas to take to the roads, making coherent military movements virtually impossible. This situation was exacerbated by confusing orders, lack of command and control, and a well-led and aggressive enemy, which led to the fall of Ban Me Thuot and the destruction of the bulk of an entire Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) corps in the Central Highlands.
A similar attempt to reduce defended areas in the northern provinces (this time to coastal enclaves) and to create a strategic national reserve met a similar fate, as command confusion, massive refugee migrations, and, in the end, total anarchy prevented any coherent defense and led to the utter collapse of ARVN's forces and the loss of the northern two-thirds of the country. Surprised by the rapidity of the South Vietnamese collapse, the objective of the communist campaign then became the transfer of the bulk of its northern forces more than 350 miles to the south in order to capture the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon in time for the northerners to celebrate their late President Ho Chi Minh's birthday and end the war.
South Vietnamese forces regrouped around the capital and managed to conduct a commendable defense of the key transportation hub at Xuan Loc, but a loss of political and military will to continue the fight were becoming ever more manifest. Under political pressure, South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu resigned from office on 21 April, in hopes that a new leader that was more amenable to the North Vietnamese could reopen negotiations with them. It was, however, far too late. With PAVN spearheads already entering Saigon, the South Vietnamese government, then under the leadership of Duong Van Minh, capitulated on 30th April 1975.

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  ho chi rev.jpg (Size: 12.27 KB / Downloads: 0) ]]> https://soviet-awards.com/forum/Thread-1975-Spring-General-Offensive-Badge Sat, 15 Mar 2008 08:53:20 +0000 Taz]]> https://soviet-awards.com/forum/Thread-1975-Spring-General-Offensive-Badge The 1975 Spring general offensive and uprising started with the victory in Buon Ma Thuot on March 11th, 1975, which was followed by a series of triumphs of the Tay Nguyen (Central Highlands) campaign.
The entire Central Highlands was liberated on March 24th, 1975. On March 26th, 1975, Hue was liberated and on March 29, 1975, Da Nang was liberated.
The badge was awarded to the troops who took part in this campaign.
The inscription reads TOAN THANG XUAN 1975 (Total Victory Spring, 1975)
In the SRV flag QUET THANG (Resolved to Win)

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The entire Central Highlands was liberated on March 24th, 1975. On March 26th, 1975, Hue was liberated and on March 29, 1975, Da Nang was liberated.
The badge was awarded to the troops who took part in this campaign.
The inscription reads TOAN THANG XUAN 1975 (Total Victory Spring, 1975)
In the SRV flag QUET THANG (Resolved to Win)

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  001396-2b.jpg (Size: 25.71 KB / Downloads: 1) ]]> https://soviet-awards.com/forum/Thread-1968-General-Offensive-Badge Sat, 15 Mar 2008 08:50:00 +0000 Taz]]> https://soviet-awards.com/forum/Thread-1968-General-Offensive-Badge Victory seems a strange choice of wording on this badge. The NLF suffered such heavy losses that for the remainder of the war their units had to be staffed by PAVN troops.

The Tet Offensive (Tet Mau Than), or officially, Tổng Công Kích/Tổng Khởi Nghĩa - General Offensive, General Uprising, was a three-phase military campaign conducted between 30th January and 23rd September 1968, by the combined forces of the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam (NLF or Viet Cong) and the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) during the Vietnam War.
The purpose of the operations, which were unprecedented in this conflict in their magnitude and ferocity, was to strike military and civilian command and control centers throughout the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) and to spark a general uprising among the population that would then topple the Saigon government, thus ending the war in a single blow.
The operations are referred to in the West as the Tet Offensive because they were timed to begin during the early morning hours of 31st January, Tết Nguyên Đán, the lunar new year holiday. For reasons that are still not completely understood, a wave of attacks began on the preceding morning in the I and II Corps Tactical Zones. This early attack did not, however, cause undue alarm or lead to widespread allied defensive measures. When the main NLF-PAVN operation began the next morning, the offensive was countrywide in scope and well coordinated, with more than 80,000 communist troops striking more than 100 towns and cities, including 36 of 44 provincial capitals, five of the six autonomous cities, 72 of 245 district towns, and the national capital. The offensive was the largest military operation yet conducted by either side up to that point in the war.
The initial Communist attacks stunned allied forces and took them by surprise, but most were quickly contained and beaten back, inflicting massive casualties on the NLF. The exceptions were the fighting that erupted in the old imperial capital of Huế, where intense fighting lasted for a month, and the continuing struggle around the U.S. combat base at Khe Sanh, where fighting continued for two more months. Although the offensive was a military disaster for communist forces, it had a profound effect on the American administration and shocked the American public, which had been led to believe by its political and military leaders that the communists were, due to previous defeats, incapable of launching such a massive effort.
The majority of Western historians have concluded that the offensive ended in June, which easily located it within framework of U.S. political and military decisions that altered the American commitment to the war. In fact, the General Offensive continued, according to plan, through two more distinct phases. The second phase began on 5th May and continued until the end of the month. The third began on 17th August and only ended on 23rd September.

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  000615-2a.jpg (Size: 30.58 KB / Downloads: 6) ]]> Victory seems a strange choice of wording on this badge. The NLF suffered such heavy losses that for the remainder of the war their units had to be staffed by PAVN troops.

The Tet Offensive (Tet Mau Than), or officially, Tổng Công Kích/Tổng Khởi Nghĩa - General Offensive, General Uprising, was a three-phase military campaign conducted between 30th January and 23rd September 1968, by the combined forces of the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam (NLF or Viet Cong) and the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) during the Vietnam War.
The purpose of the operations, which were unprecedented in this conflict in their magnitude and ferocity, was to strike military and civilian command and control centers throughout the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) and to spark a general uprising among the population that would then topple the Saigon government, thus ending the war in a single blow.
The operations are referred to in the West as the Tet Offensive because they were timed to begin during the early morning hours of 31st January, Tết Nguyên Đán, the lunar new year holiday. For reasons that are still not completely understood, a wave of attacks began on the preceding morning in the I and II Corps Tactical Zones. This early attack did not, however, cause undue alarm or lead to widespread allied defensive measures. When the main NLF-PAVN operation began the next morning, the offensive was countrywide in scope and well coordinated, with more than 80,000 communist troops striking more than 100 towns and cities, including 36 of 44 provincial capitals, five of the six autonomous cities, 72 of 245 district towns, and the national capital. The offensive was the largest military operation yet conducted by either side up to that point in the war.
The initial Communist attacks stunned allied forces and took them by surprise, but most were quickly contained and beaten back, inflicting massive casualties on the NLF. The exceptions were the fighting that erupted in the old imperial capital of Huế, where intense fighting lasted for a month, and the continuing struggle around the U.S. combat base at Khe Sanh, where fighting continued for two more months. Although the offensive was a military disaster for communist forces, it had a profound effect on the American administration and shocked the American public, which had been led to believe by its political and military leaders that the communists were, due to previous defeats, incapable of launching such a massive effort.
The majority of Western historians have concluded that the offensive ended in June, which easily located it within framework of U.S. political and military decisions that altered the American commitment to the war. In fact, the General Offensive continued, according to plan, through two more distinct phases. The second phase began on 5th May and continued until the end of the month. The third began on 17th August and only ended on 23rd September.

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  000615-2a.jpg (Size: 30.58 KB / Downloads: 6) ]]> https://soviet-awards.com/forum/Thread-%C4%90i%E1%BB%87n-Bi%C3%AAn-Ph%E1%BB%A7-Badge Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:07:52 +0000 Taz]]> https://soviet-awards.com/forum/Thread-%C4%90i%E1%BB%87n-Bi%C3%AAn-Ph%E1%BB%A7-Badge The badges are inscribed at the bottom CHIEN SY DIEN-BIEN-PHU (Soldier of Dien Bien Phu)
The SRV flag has the inscription QUYET CHIEN/QUYET THANG ( Decisive Battle/Resolved to win) XUAN 1954 (Spring 1954) is inscribed on the top of the badge

The third version of the badge conforms more to the usual design of the later campaign badges.
The SRV flag bears the inscription QUYET THANG (Resoved to Win)
5-8 is inscribed on the top of this badge and there are two theories as to what this refers to. On the one hand this was the date of the Geneva Peace Conference a day after the Frence surrender, on the other the shooting down and capture of Ensign Everett Alvarez on 5th August, 1964, who became the first American POW.

Image CO Dave Devine

Operation Pierce Arrow was a U.S. military operation during the Vietnam War.

In response to the Gulf of Tonkin Incident when the USS Maddox of the United States Navy was attacked after having provoked North Vietnamese patrol boats once on August 2, 1964 and allegedly again on August 4 as it gathered electronic intelligence while in the international waters of the Gulf of Tonkin, U.S.President Lyndon B. Johnson ordered Operation "Pierce Arrow" which was conducted on August 5. The operation consisted of 64 strike sorties from the aircraft carriers Ticonderoga and Constellation against the torpedo boat bases of Hon Gai, Loc Chao, Quang Khe, and Ben Thuy, and the oil storage depot at Vinh. The U.S. lost two aircraft to anti-aircraft fire, with one pilot killed and another, Ensign Everett Alvarez Jr., becoming the first U.S. Prisoner of War in Vietnam. Pilots estimated they destroyed 90 percent of the petroleum storage facility at Vinh together with the destruction of or damage to 25 P-4 torpedo boats.

This was the start of U.S. air operations over North Vietnam and Southeast Asia, attempting to destroy the infrastructure, war material, and military units needed by North Vietnam to prosecute the guerrilla war in the South. Pierce Arrow was followed by Operation Flaming Dart on February 7-11, 1965; Operation Rolling Thunder from March 2, 1965 to October 31, 1968; Operation Linebacker, May 9 to October 22, 1972; and Operation Linebacker II, December 18-29, 1972.

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  DienBienPhu.jpg (Size: 24.64 KB / Downloads: 4) ]]> The badges are inscribed at the bottom CHIEN SY DIEN-BIEN-PHU (Soldier of Dien Bien Phu)
The SRV flag has the inscription QUYET CHIEN/QUYET THANG ( Decisive Battle/Resolved to win) XUAN 1954 (Spring 1954) is inscribed on the top of the badge

The third version of the badge conforms more to the usual design of the later campaign badges.
The SRV flag bears the inscription QUYET THANG (Resoved to Win)
5-8 is inscribed on the top of this badge and there are two theories as to what this refers to. On the one hand this was the date of the Geneva Peace Conference a day after the Frence surrender, on the other the shooting down and capture of Ensign Everett Alvarez on 5th August, 1964, who became the first American POW.

Image CO Dave Devine

Operation Pierce Arrow was a U.S. military operation during the Vietnam War.

In response to the Gulf of Tonkin Incident when the USS Maddox of the United States Navy was attacked after having provoked North Vietnamese patrol boats once on August 2, 1964 and allegedly again on August 4 as it gathered electronic intelligence while in the international waters of the Gulf of Tonkin, U.S.President Lyndon B. Johnson ordered Operation "Pierce Arrow" which was conducted on August 5. The operation consisted of 64 strike sorties from the aircraft carriers Ticonderoga and Constellation against the torpedo boat bases of Hon Gai, Loc Chao, Quang Khe, and Ben Thuy, and the oil storage depot at Vinh. The U.S. lost two aircraft to anti-aircraft fire, with one pilot killed and another, Ensign Everett Alvarez Jr., becoming the first U.S. Prisoner of War in Vietnam. Pilots estimated they destroyed 90 percent of the petroleum storage facility at Vinh together with the destruction of or damage to 25 P-4 torpedo boats.

This was the start of U.S. air operations over North Vietnam and Southeast Asia, attempting to destroy the infrastructure, war material, and military units needed by North Vietnam to prosecute the guerrilla war in the South. Pierce Arrow was followed by Operation Flaming Dart on February 7-11, 1965; Operation Rolling Thunder from March 2, 1965 to October 31, 1968; Operation Linebacker, May 9 to October 22, 1972; and Operation Linebacker II, December 18-29, 1972.

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  DienBienPhu.jpg (Size: 24.64 KB / Downloads: 4) ]]> https://soviet-awards.com/forum/Thread-Belorussian-Friendship-Badge Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:59:58 +0000 Taz]]> https://soviet-awards.com/forum/Thread-Belorussian-Friendship-Badge On the badge itself is the inscription NGUOI TOT VIEC TOT ( good people are good workers)

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