- Measures - 29 x21 inches (75 x 54 cms)
- Excellent Piece
- NLF, NVA, VC - Viet Cong / National Liberation Front
- Measures - 29 x21 inches (75 x 54 cms)
- Excellent Piece
- NLF, NVA, VC - Viet Cong / National Liberation Front
Quang Tri Province / Quang Tri City - Easter Offensive 1972
The campaign was conducted primarily by the PAVN 304th, 308th, 312th, 320B, 324B and later the 325th Divisions, supported by the 203rd Tank Regiment and substantial artillery and engineer formations as well as elements of the National Liberation Front.
Following the fall of Quảng Trị, the advance was halted at the Mỹ Chánh River north of Huế, where reinforced ARVN Marine, Airborne and Ranger units, supported by intensive American B-52 strikes, tactical air power and naval gunfire, stabilised the front.
The subsequent ARVN counter-offensive culminated in the Battle of Quảng Trị Citadel, an 81-day struggle that ranks among the bloodiest engagements of the Vietnam War, ending with the recapture of the city on 16 September 1972.
The Easter Offensive demonstrated North Vietnam's ability to conduct large-scale conventional warfare while profoundly influencing the final stages of the conflict and the Paris Peace negotiations.
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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