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	Republic of Viet Nam
		This portrait of the Ngo family bears an uncanny resemblance to maps used by the Army of the Republic of Viet Nam and the U.S. military.
		Meanwhile, both the Army of the Republic of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front continued their recruitment of young men.
		After April 1975, Viet Nam was reunified and the battle to consummate the union was just beginning.
	cidc.library.cornell.edu /dof/students/ajt8/index.htm (327 words)

	Wikipedia: Vietnam War
		After the Viet Minh defeated the French colonial army at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954, the colony was granted independence.
		The NLF (or Viet Cong) was a guerrilla movement in opposition to the South Vietnamese government.
		This view held ARVN to be a puppet of the U.S. These conflicting propoganda stances were later played out in early peace talks in which arguments were made over "the shape of the [negotiating] table" in which each side sought to depict itself as two distinct entities opposing a single entity, ignoring its "puppet".
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/v/vi/vietnam_war.html (6522 words)

	Viet Nam Tour (Site not responding. Last check: )
		But for her viet nam tour and the men who fought in Viet Nam, life would never be the same again.
		Here for the first time, these unorthodox viet nam tour and sometimes iconoclastic special warriors talk about the missions that are left out of the official histories viet nam tour and existing accounts.
		Viet Minh - The Vietminh (abbreviated from Viá»t Nam Ãá»c Láºp Ãá»“ng Minh Há»i, Chu nom è¶å—ç¬ç«åçæ, "League for the Independence of Vietnam") was formed by Ho Ngoc Lam and Nguyen Hai Than in 1941 to seek independence for Vietnam from France as well as to oppose the Japanese presence.
	www.greatlakesoutdoorsman.com /vietnamtour.html (1001 words)

	Viet Nam Chronology (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Geneva Convention divides the country of Viet Nam at the 17th Parallel into North and South Viet Nam with 20 July 1956 as the date for a unification election: a freely held election to determine who would rule a unified Viet Nam.
		The vote, on 7 August, is 410 to 0 in the House of Representatives and 88 to 2 in the Senate--only Senators Ernest Grueing of Alaska and Wayne Morse of Oregon vote against the resolution.
		North Viet Nam launches a series of attacks against hundreds of South Viet Namese villages prior to the signing of the peace accords in Paris and the resultant cease-fire.
	fp.uni.edu /prahl/viet_nam.htm (1978 words)

	Elegant
		By innuendo and mis-statement the Army of the Republic of Viet Nam was reduced in the public eye to a corrupt rabble, far, far less effective than the Republic of Korea Army during the earlier war.
		The "Viet Nam Syndrome" is compounded of a variety of symptoms, none unique in itself, but unprecedented in combination and devastating in their totality.
		During the Viet Nam decade a whole American generation of journalists and intellectuals unlearned the experience of Stalinist society—its incomparable inefficiency; its thick-headed, dogmatic compounding of error and miscalculation; and, not least (so obvious in Eastern Europe and the U.S.S.R.), its intolerable burden of a costly military machine superimposed on an old-fashioned, hard-pressed, "underdeveloped" economy.
	www.viet-myths.net /Elegant.htm (10083 words)

	Army of the Republic of Viet Nam patches
		It used to be said that weapons issued to the ARVN Forces were good value on the 2nd hand market because "they had never been fired and only ever dropped once".
		The badge is in the shape of a blue shield containing a red, fl and white dragon with red and gold striped wings representing the flag of the Republic of South Vietnam.
		Screen printed shoulder patch of the Airborne Division of the Army of the Republic of South Vietnam.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-badges/shoulder-arvn.htm (488 words)

	USMC/COMBAT HELICOPTER ASSOCIATION
		The Demilitarized Zone separating North and South Viet Nam that was established by the United Nations at the time French IndoChina was partitioned into the two countries.
		Viet Nam was divided into 4 geographical areas known as Corps in order to delineate responsibility for the military operations therein.
		The "Huey" was the standard small troop carrying helicopter in Viet Nam, primarily used by the Army.
	www.popasmoke.com /glossary.html (2914 words)

	Navy UDT-SEAL Museum :\|: History
		The Viet Mihn, the nationalist movement's political and military organization, under the leadership of Ho Chi Mihn, were gaining strength in the north.
		Ho Chi Mihn was proclaimed President of the new Republic and he demanded the immediate withdrawal of the French and complete independence for Vietnam.
		By late 1945, the OSS Teams were finally withdrawn and the French agreed to recognize the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam as long as it remained part of France.
	www.navysealmuseum.com /heritage/historyVIET.php (2843 words)

	History of Strategic Technical Directorate, Army of the Republic of Viet Nam
		By 1960 it was apparent that the main threat to South Vietnam was growing Viet Cong insurgency; the Group abandoned its stay behind role and was assigned missions in VC infested areas.
		In the wake of the coup the Presidential Liaison Office was dissolved and its function assumed by the ARVN.
		Headquartered in Saigon, STD command was given to Col. Doan Van Nu, an ARVN airborne officer and former military attache to Taiwan.
	ngothelinh.tripod.com /History.html (3967 words)

	Taken Prisoners by the Viet Cong : Stories from AFSC's Past : About AFSC
		She and Sandra were given NLF fatigues to wear, with apologies from Nam that there were no women's clothes available.
		They felt safe with Nam and the rest of the group and were anxious that the move might put them into the hands of people less interested in their welfare.
		Still dressed in NLF fatigues, they caught a bus filled with soldiers from the Army of the Republic of Viet Nam (often referred to as ARVN), and so they found their way back into the city.
	www.afsc.org /about/hist/nelson.htm (1269 words)

	Vietnam War
		Fighting on the other side was a coalition of forces including the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) and the National Liberation Front, a South Vietnamese opposition movement with a guerrilla militia known in the U.S. as the "Viet Cong".
		After the Viet Minh defeated the French colonial army at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954, the French Withdrew, and the colony was granted independence.
		Under escalation, U.S. involvement increased over a period of years, beginning with the deployment of non-combatant military advisors to the South Vietnamese army, to use of special forces for commando-style operations, to introduction of regular troops whose purpose was to be defensive only, to using regular troops in offensive combat.
	www.askfactmaster.com /Vietnam_War (8367 words)

	Viet Nam: Culture
		One was a Government of the Republic of Viet Nam (GVN) council, and one was a NLF council.
		In their paradigm Viet Nam was a country populated primarily by a large number of families who shared a common language, culture and way of life, something like a tribe in which some small number of families often dominated other families but the way of life continued.
		In mid 1966 the increased B-52 bombing of North Viet Nam led to the expectation in the north of a land invasion.
	faculty.philau.edu /kleinbachr/viet_nam_perspective.htm (8315 words)

	TIME.com: How Good Is Saigon's Army? -- Apr. 17, 1972 -- Page 1
		For better or worse, the Army of the Republic of Viet Nam (ARVN for short) holds the key to the success of President Nixon's Vietnamization policy.
		When ARVN took over the U.S. firebases south of the DMZ, the locations and even the names remained the same, which meant that the North Vietnamese did not even have to worry about changing their artillery coordinates.
		Furthermore, a call for artillery support from a beleaguered ARVN field commander must pass through a tortuous chain of command extending from the district commander through the civilian province chief to the divisional commander and finally to the appropriate artillery battalion.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,944467,00.html (676 words)

	Helicopters at War
		Although Army leaders thought about using helicopters to ferry troops during Korea, the service was prohibited from operating large aircraft by a law passed when the U.S. Air Force was created in 1947.
		By the middle of the war, the helicopter had become as important to the Army as the tank, the armored personnel carrier, and the jeep, and the Huey was the most symbolic weapon of the Vietnam War.
		But by the end of the war, the Army had a substantial Air Force of its own—centered on the helicopter—and could take on missions that were previously the domain of the U.S. Air Force, but which were often ignored by that service.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Rotary/Heli_at_War/HE14.htm (1614 words)

	Asean News Network: The Vietnam War 1957-1975 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Fighting on the other side was a coalition of forces including the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) and the National Liberation Front, a South Vietnamese opposition movement with a guerrilla militia known in the Western world as the "Viet Cong".
		The stated goal of Vietnamization was to enable the South Vietnamese army to increasingly hold its own against the NLF and the North Vietnamese Army.
		However it is as well to remember that large areas of land in South Viet Nam had already been appropriated by the communists well before the end of the war - and their owners compensated for the loss by the South Vietnamese government.
	www.aseannewsnetwork.com /2004/03/vietnam-war-1957-1975.html (10208 words)

	ipedia.com: Vietnam War Article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Fighting on the other side was a coalition of forces including the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) and the National Liberation Front, a South Vietnamese guerrilla movement known in the U.S. as the "Viet Cong".
		Bound up with the lack of official war status was the concept of escalation, which used the analogy of an escalator rising slowly but steadily to facilitate gradual entry into warfare as opposed to the traditional declaration of war with its attendant widescale mobilization and straightforward hostilities.
		Since the U.S. had pre-existing treaty agreements with the Republic of Viet Nam, each escalation was presented as simply another step in helping an ally resist what was portrayed as an invasion.
	www.ipedia.com /vietnam_war.html (7263 words)

	VIET NAM STAMPS © Chi D. Nguyen
		North Viet Nam since 1945 and South Viet Nam began with the Ex-Emperor Bao-Dai's return to his country as Chief of State.
		Prior to the fall of the Republic (on April 30, 1975) former Captain Nguyen-Bao-Tung of Army of the Republic of Viet Nam (ARVN), was the commander of the 34th MP-CID (Military Police-Criminal Investigation Detachment) in Saigon.
		Since 1959, he was a member of South Viet Nam's Council for planning new stamp designs and Secretary General of the Vietnamese-American Association Stamp Club in Viet Nam.
	www.viettouch.com /philately/nguyenbaotung.html (899 words)

	Viet Nam
		He is the only Culpepper on the Viet Nam Memorial Wall (Panel 24W, Row 039), and thus the only one who died as a result of the Viet Nam war.
		On 18 May 1969, at Long Khanh, South Viet Nam, Allen was killed in ground combat by enemy artillery.
		He says he was never actually in Viet Nam waters, and the Service would neither confirm or deny if his ship was there.
	gen.culpepper.com /military/vietnam.htm (1385 words)

	H-Net Review: David H. Eyman on More Than a Soldier's War: Pacification in Vietnam
		The Viet Cong drew part of its strength from its ability to exist in the villages of the Vietnam countryside.
		In 1964, after attending crash courses to qualify as a psywar officer, Metzner left for Viet Nam and what would be the first of four tours of duty covering seven years in that country.
		His first assignment was to the Army of the Republic of Viet Nam (ARVN) 7th Infantry Division headquarters in My Tho, the provincial capital of Dinh Tuong Province south of Saigon.
	www.h-net.msu.edu /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=25469868961992 (1015 words)

	VIET NAM HUMAN RIGHTS ACT
		(7) The Government of Viet Nam has also persecuted members of other ethnic minority groups, including the Khmer Krom from the Mekong Delta, many of whom fought alongside United States military personnel during the Viet Nam war and whose Hinayana Buddhist religion is not among those recognized by the Government.
		In August 1997, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) reported that child labor exploitation is on the rise in Viet Nam with tens of thousands of children under 15 years of age being subjected to such exploitation.
		The government's official labor export program also has subjected workers, many of whom are women, to involuntary servitude, debt bondage, and other forms of abuse, and the reaction of government officials to worker complaints of such abuse has been to threaten the workers with punishment if they do not desist in their complaints.
	www.vietquoc.com /news2002/na062902hra.htm (2159 words)

	Vietnam Glossary
		The Democratic Republic of Vietnam was the name given to Vietnam by Ho Chi Minh when he proclaimed its independence from France in 1945.
		MAAG was an organization established in Saigon by the U.S. Army in August 1950 to oversee the distribution of American military aid to France and South Vietnam.
		PAVN was the army of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam), referred to by American and Saigon government forces as “NVA” (North Vietnamese Army).
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	Viet Nam Human Rights Act of 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In late 2002, the Government of Viet Nam launched a fresh wave of arrests and crackdowns against peaceful critics of the Vietnamese Government, its policy of repression, and its corrupt practices.
		According to the Southern Evangelical Church of Viet Nam, the Government of Viet Nam forcibly closed 354 of the 412 churches in Dak Lak province, 56 pastors from the Central Highlands have disappeared, and at least 43 evangelical Montagnards have been sentenced to prison.
		The government of Viet Nam has made some minor efforts to improve this situation, but enforcement of child labor laws remains weak, and the child exploitation still persists.
	www.theorator.com /bills108/hr1587.html (4031 words)

	1200 Area. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The road was guarded by the ARVN (Army of the Republic of Viet Nam).
		In this view, facing toward the south west, you can see the ARVN guard tower, guard shack, and garage that was across the perimeter road behind my hootch.
		Even with constant repair I had to buy three of them in the year I was in Viet Nam.
	www.qsl.net /wb0ydi/pictures2.html (373 words)

	Air Power:Helicopters at War
		This situation changed on November 4, 1952, when the army and the air force signed an agreement that continued the limit on the size of army fixed-wing aircraft but redefined helicopters by function performed in the combat zone.
		American H-21 helicopters manufactured by Vertol were used to ferry Army of the Republic of Viet Nam (ARVN) troops into battle against communist Viet Cong guerillas in 1962.
		By the 1970s, as Vietnam came to an end and the U.S. Army refocused its attention on the threat of a Soviet ground offensive in Europe, army leaders began to rethink some aspects of the air mobility concept.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Air_Power/Heli_at_War/AP42.htm (1639 words)

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