Rare Original Patch - PRU - Phoenix Assassination Program - Vietnam War - G.059 For Sale
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Rare Original Patch - PRU - Phoenix Assassination Program - Vietnam War - G.059:
$90.00
Teeth of the Tiger - US led, Provincial Recon Units - Phoenix Assassination Program - South Vietnam
Patch - Measures - 4.4 x 3.4 inches (11 x 8.5 cms) - Original Patch
Vietnam War Mercenary PRU - Newspaper Backed
US Assassination Program - Vietnam - Operation Phoenix Patch
CIA - PRU and US Special Forces
Operation Phoenix - ( The Phoenix Program )
Operation Phoenix became official in 1968 however existed for years before that - Operation Phoenix was instigated by the CIA with an aim to, \' destabalize, neutralize, capture and kill \' members of an organisation the CIA called the VCI (Viet Cong Infrastructure ) - The program was designed to disrupt any civilian activity that supported the VC south of the DMZ - this include people that supplied guides, foods, storage dumps, people who helped with conscription to the VC.
The Central Intelligence Agency turned the Operation over to the US Amry and the ARVN in 1968 and continued to operate until 1972.
VNBP
VNBP – (VietNam Backing Paper) - VNBP - Vietnam War, in-country made - Tailor, periodVietnamese backing paper to rear. VNBP relates to the backing paper used byVietnam War, in-country tailors making patches for US Military Units.
Used across avariety or patches it almost always represents the highest quality tailor madepatches.
Varyinglanguages were used, Vietnamese, English and French. VNBP patches are among therarest and most collectable of patches.
Titles of Distinction
- Hero of the Soviet Union
- Hero of Socialist Labor
- Pilot-Cosmonaut of USSR
- Dist. Military Pilot USSR
- Dist. Military Navigator USSR
- Dist. Test Pilot USSR
- Dist. Test Navigator USSR
- Distinguished Pilot USSR
- Dist. Navigator USSR
Orders of Distinction
- Order of Lenin
- Order of October Revolution
- Order of the Red Banner
- Order of Suvorov
- Order of Ushakov
- Order of Kutuzov
- Order of Nakhimov
- Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky
- Order of Alexander Nevsky
- Order of the Patriotic War
- Order of Red Banner of Labor
- Order of Friendship
- Order of the Red Star
- Order Service to Motherland
- Order of the Badge of Honor
- Order of Honor
- Order of Personal Courage
- Order of Glory
- Order of Labor Glory
- Order of Mother Heroine
- Order of Maternal Glory