
	Where results make sense

Topic: Battle of Ap Bac

Related Topics

List of battles (geographic)

Vietnam War

Battle of Ia Drang

Battle of Hamburger Hill

Operation Chopper

Siege of Khe Sanh

Battle of Long Tan

NLF

Battle of Tarawa

Cu Chi tunnels

Operation Pierce Arrow

North Vietnam

Battle of Dien Bien Phu

My Lai Massacre

Mekong Delta

In the News (Mon 6 Oct 08)

Eli Manning

Josh Beckett

Sage Rosenfels

South Ossetia

Super League

Angelina Jolie

West Bengal

Wayne Rooney

Howard Stern

Beth Ostrosky

	The Battle of Ap Bac, Jan. 1963: The Stage is Set for Defeat in Vietnam. Is This Happening in Iraq? - Associated ...
		Home » Opinion/Editorial » The Battle of Ap Bac, Jan. 1963: The Stage is Set for Defeat in Vietnam.
		The Battle of Ap Bac, Jan. 1963: The Stage is Set for Defeat in Vietnam.
		The Battle of Ap Bac showed the lack of commitment on the part of the Vietnamese government to pursue the conflict in an aggressive manner.
	www.associatedcontent.com /article/161720/the_battle_of_ap_bac_jan_1963_the_stage.html (572 words)

	Battle of Ap Bac - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of Ap Bac was a small-scale action early in the Vietnam War that resulted in the first major combat victory by Viet Cong guerrillas against regular South Vietnamese forces.
		The battle took place on January 2, 1963, near the hamlet ("ap" in Vietnamese) of Bac, 65 kilometers southwest of Saigon in the Mekong Delta.
		Ap Bac represented a significant milestone in the war.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Ap_Bac (1783 words)

	Vietnam War Vita @ LaunchBase.com (Launch Base) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		However in the Battle of the Ia Drang Valley the PAVN suffered heavy casualties, prompting a return to guerilla tactics.
		The battle forced the PAVN to divert forces that had been intended for other operations to what was seen as the defense of the trail.
		battle in the conflict was the May 15, 1975 when 18 soldiers were killed on the last day of a rescue operation known as the Mayagüez incident involving a skirmish with the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.
	www.launchbase.com /encyclopedia/Vietnam_War (11829 words)

	Battle of Ap Bac, Vietnam (The): They Did Everything But Learn From It, by David M. Toczek - Military Ink (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Toczek provides the first description of the entire battle of Ap Bac and places it in the larger context of the Vietnam War.
		Ironically, Ap Bac's great importance lies in American policymakers' perception of the battle as unimportant; for all their intelligence and drive, senior American government officials missed the early warning signs of a flawed policy in Southeast Asia by ignoring the lessons of the defeat of the South Vietnamese Army (ARVN) on 2 January 1963.
		The outcome of Ap Bac was a direct reflection of how the U.S. Army organized, equipped, and trained the ARVN.
	www.militaryink.com /books/2005/june/157488963X.htm (266 words)

	Vietnam_War
		After France's attempted recolonization of Indochina was defeated in 1954 by the Viet Minh at the battle of Điện Biên Phủ, an agreement to temporarily partition the country in two with a de-militarized zone (DMZ) was reached at the Geneva Conference (1954).
		Ap Bac was the sign that the war was escalating as the result of the increasing supplies of men and weapons from the North.
		In retrospect it appears the PAVN was using the battle to draw U.S. attention away from other operations being developed, but this position appears difficult to support considering the loss of about one-third of the attacking force KIA alone.
	brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/v/vi/vietnam_war.html (12345 words)

	ap- - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Associated Press (AP), largest news-gathering organization in the world.
		Dafydd ap Gwilym (1320?-1380?), the greatest poet in the Welsh language, born of Norman-Welsh aristocracy in South Wales.
		The Saigon government’s war against the NLF was also going badly.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /ap-.html (95 words)

	The Vietnam War > University Without Walls Spring 2004
		The battle of Ap Bac, which occurred on January 2, 1963, is important because it involved both ARVN troops and U.S. Advisors and because it showed the reluctance of the ARVN commanders to engage the Viet Cong, risk a loss, and infuriate Diem.
		Despite the technological superiority of the ARVN and American Advisors, the small group of VC, about 350 in number, essentially won the battle over a force four times its size, then escaped into the night.The senior U.S. officer in South Vietnam, General Paul Harkins, reported that the mission was successful.
		Not only did the battle of Ap Bac demonstrate ARVN's command and control difficulties, General Harkins damaged the U.S. credibility with the press corps; that credibility gap would prove more problematic as the United States increased its involvement in the war.
	www2.skidmore.edu /uww/vietnam/ap_bac.htm (213 words)

	Donald Braman, SP4, Army, Mystic CT, 02Jan63 01E015 - The Virtual Wall®
		Finally, although the VC were entrenched in a north-south tree line running from the hamlet of Tan Thoi through Ap Bac, all the ARVN forces were bought to bear from the south and west, thereby allowing the VC a clear path for withdrawal to the east.
		On the fourth lift, the landing zone (near Ap Bac) was ambushed by an entrenched and reinforced VC battalion.
		American advisers who took part in the battle on the edge of the Plain of Reeds recounted sorry tales of the debacle: Government forces out numbered the Communists by 10 to 1 and were supported by planes, artillery and armor.
	www.virtualwall.org /db/BramanDL01a.htm (1831 words)

	The Battle of Ap Bac 1, 2nd January 1963 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The battle of Ap Bac, sixty-five kilometers southwest of Saigon in the Mekong Delta in January 1963, illustrates the early problems faced by the developing armored forces of the ARVN.
		The Viet Cong after action report subsequently captured revealed that the enemy knew a battle was imminent and had carefully prepared defensive positions along the Cong Luong Canal from Ap Tan Thoi to Ap Bac.
		The fighting at Ap Bac and more specifically the employment of the mechanized rifle squadron, illustrates many of the problems faced by advisers.
	www.gruntonline.com /TheWar/ARVN/arvn_armour5.htm (1015 words)

	Chapter II: Armor in the South Vietnamese Army
		The battle of Ap Bac, sixty-five kilometers southwest of Saigon in the Mekong Delta in January 1963, illustrates the problem.
		One battle in the Plain of Reeds on 3 and 4 March 1964 ended in a resounding victory for the South Vietnamese and the capture of over 300 of the Viet Cong.
		Reaching Ap Bac on the afternoon of 20 March 1966, the 6th Armored Cavalry Regiment moved into a previously used assembly area, resupplied, and obstensibly prepared to stay the night.
	www.army.mil /CMH-PG/books/Vietnam/mounted/chapter2.htm (10898 words)

	Vietnam War - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Many experts consider the war to be a larger battle in the then-ongoing Cold War.
		After the Viet Minh defeated the French colonial army at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954, the colony was granted independence.
		Then on August 18, 1965, Operation Starlite began as the first major American ground battle of the war when 5,500 US Marines destroyed a NLF stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in Quang Ngai Province.
	encyclopedia.learnthis.info /v/vi/vietnam_war.html (7221 words)

	Vietnam War - MSN Encarta
		The Battle of Dien Bien Phu resulted in perhaps the most humiliating defeat in French military history.
		In January 1963 an ARVN force of 2,000 encountered a group of 350 NLF soldiers at Ap Bac, a village south of Saigon in the Mekong River Delta.
		Some U.S. military advisers began to report that Saigon was losing the war, but the official military and embassy press officers reported Ap Bac as a significant ARVN victory.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761552642/Vietnam_War.html (2764 words)

	Vietnam War Timeline
		Battle of Kienhoa Province: 400 guerillas attack village in Kienhoa Province, and are defeated by South Vietnamese troops.
		Battle for Hue: The Battle for Hue wages for 26 days as US and South Vietnamese forces try to recapture the site seized by the Communists during the Tet Offensive.
		Previously, a religious retreat in the middle of a war zone, Hue was nearly leveled in a battle that left nearly all of its population homeless.
	www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/vietnam/timeline.htm (3736 words)

	JOHN PAUL VANN: U.S. Army and American Hero (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Follow him later as a LTC, he advises the South Vietnamese Army at the 1963 epic battle of Ap Bac, (scroll down after going to the link) where a technical level of war pair of errors gives the VC their first victory against the U.S. war machines: the VC are operating a radio which a
		The loss at Ap Bac in 1963, emboldens the VC and the ARVN are routed continually thereafter, LTC Vann's Army career is destroyed.
		This is where the last battle of the Vietnam War was fought, where the 18th ARVN Division defeated three NVA divisions before finally being overrun by 40,000 of the enemy.
	www.combatreform.com /johnpaulvann.htm (4810 words)

	Battle at the Hamlet of Ap Bac
		The plan was for Army of the Republic of Vietnam infantry to be landed by helicopter to the north of the hamlet, while two Civil Guard battalions supported by a company of M-113s approached from the south through the neighboring hamlet of Bac.
		A call was made to the commander of the M-113s ordering him to suggest an immediate advance on Bac, but the APCs were away to the west beyond a series of canals.
		An airborne division was to the made available to the ARVN but were ordered the east of Bac to cut off the retreat of the Viet Cong.
	www.vietnam-war.info /battles/hamlet_of_ap_bac2.php (548 words)

	Vietnam War: Neil Sheehan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		For example, Sheehan devotes one whole chapter to the battle of Ap Bac, where southern Vietnamese guerrillas with no heavy weapons defeated a force three times their size, shooting down several Amerikan helicopters and routing a column of armored vehicles along the way.
		Because of battle accounts like this, which detail the heroism and immense sacrifices made by the Vietnamese revolutionary forces, the book is often suspenseful and inspiring.
		John Paul Vann, the Amerikan whose life Sheehan follows, was disgusted with the corruption of the south Vietnamese government and the callous disregard the Amerikan military showed for the life of the civilian population.
	www.etext.org /Politics/MIM/bookstore/books/asia/sheehan.html (803 words)

	Category:Battles and operations of the Vietnam War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This category contains historical battles fought as part of the First Indochina and Vietnam Wars (1946-1954; 1957–1975).
		These are the battles, and operations, and projects that occurred in the Vietnam War and the First Indochina War.
		Pages in category "Battles and operations of the Vietnam War"
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:Battles_and_operations_of_the_Vietnam_War (123 words)

	SparkNotes: The Vietnam War (1945-1975): Kennedy and the First U.S. Involvement: 1961–1963
		At one of the first major battles between ARVN and Viet Cong forces, the Battle of Ap Bac in January 1963, a vastly outnumbered and outgunned Viet Cong force nonetheless inflicted more casualties on the ARVN than vice versa.
		The official U.S. report claimed that the battle was an important victory for the anti-Communist forces, but two American journalists on the scene reported that the battle was a rout against the ARVN and postulated that U.S. involvement in Vietnam might quickly become a quagmire.
		But after the Battle of Ap Bac and the Buddhist monk’s self-immolation, the American media began to present an increasingly critical view of U.S. policy in Vietnam.
	www.sparknotes.com /history/american/vietnamwar/section5.rhtml (1554 words)

	Who Was John Paul Vann?
		Discuss the war concept of "lead" and its effectiveness/failure in the Battle of Ap Bac.
		After reading the vivid description of the Battle of Ap Bac, one may conclude that miscommunication between American forces played a vital factor in the negative consequences of the skirmish.
		At one stage of the battle, American combat forces were attacking and destroying peasant homes and small livestock shelters in Bac and Tan Thoi.
	www.richmond.edu /~ebolt/history398/WhoIsJohnPaulVann.html (652 words)

	American Writers: Neil Sheehan - Battle of Ap Bac: January 1963
		It was perhaps the strongest criticism by an American military adviser, but others in the battle said it was not an unfair one.
		American advisers who took part in the battle on the edge of the Plain of Reeds recounted sorry tales of the debacle: Government forces out numbered the Communists by 10 to 1 and were supported by planes, artillery and armor.
		Yet an infantry battalion located less than a mile from Ap Bac flatly refused to advance on the hamlet even though Vietnamese and American officers at division headquarters ordered and pleaded for hours.
	www.americanwriters.org /works/first_sheehan.asp (705 words)

	Kit Pack Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The M113, often described as an armored box on tracks, is designed to get light infantry from point A to point B on the battlefield.
		It was the first modern “battle taxi,” With its 8 cylinder Chrysler engine, the maximum road speed of the vehicle is 40 mph on road with a cruising range of 200 miles.
		After 13 gunners had been lost in the battle at Ap Bac in 1962, a combination shield and turret was designed to afford the gunners much needed protection.
	www.zianet.com /kitpack/m113.html (300 words)

	The Battle of Ap Bac, Vietnam — www.greenwood.com
		The Battle of Ap Bac, Vietnam — www.greenwood.com
		His signal accomplishments are to place the battle in its historical and operational context, to properly stress the role of the advisory team in relation to the unit advised, and to illuminate the formidable situational constraints endured by American advisors.
		Ironically, Ap Bac's great importance lies in American policymakers' perception of the battle as unimportant; for all their intelligence and drive, senior American government officials missed the early warning signs of a flawed policy in Southeast Asia by ignoring the lessons of the defeat of the South Vietnamese Army (ARVN) on 2 January 1963.
	www.greenwood.com /catalog/GM1675.aspx (764 words)

	US Armour in Vietnam - the M113 and variants - Part 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Despite being designed as an armored infantry vehicle to be used for carrying mechanized infantry into combat with armored columns of M-48's and M-60 main battle tanks on the plains of Europe, the ARVN units started using them as armored infantry combat vehicles in their own right.
		The loss of 14 ARVN gunners at the Battle of Ap Bac glaringly highlighted the need for some additional crew protection.
		Following lessons learned, in particular the loss of 14 ARVN.50 cal gunners at the Battle of Ap Bac in January 1963, the standard M113 was upgraded both in armament and armour protection to the M-113.
	www.gruntonline.com /US_Forces/US_Armor/armour2.htm (1116 words)

	Free term papers for college, book reports and research papers. Welcome to Essay Express
		BATTLE OF AP BAC On July 7, 1954 Bao Dai, president of Vietnam appointed Ding Diem as Prime Minister.
		The Battle of Shiloh After taking Fort Donelson, Ulysses Grant had wanted to move on the Confederate base in Corinth, Mississippi, where Albert Sidney Johnston, the Confederate commander in the West, was known to be assembling troops.
		Bradfield January 10, 2000 Battling Cancer During a shower one-day, you notice a lump that was not otherwise there.
	www.essayexpress.com /list/005.html (2180 words)

	Category:Battles and operations of the Vietna... - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Search for Battles and operations of the Vietna...
		Try the purge function, check the deletion log and/or the deletion discussion archive, and wait a few minutes before attempting to recreate this page.
		Pages in category "Battles and operations of the Vietna..."
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:Battles_and_operations_of_the_Vietna... (162 words)

	Neil Sheehan Papers (Library of Congress)
		Reports and memoranda for the Ap Bac battle and Dan Tien operations in 1962-63, along with Vann's correspondence and press accounts by Sheehan and David Halberstam, document Vann's criticism of the South Vietnamese government and armed forces and his advocacy of political reform and direct military intervention by the United States.
		Records for the defense of Kontum, Plieku, and other battles of the North Vietnamese army's 1972 Easter offensive are in the Vann subseries, Region II files.
		Antiwar movement, 1972-81 Ap Bac battle After-action reports, Vietcong captured documents, 1963 (2 folders) Clippings, 1963 Lewis, Thomas J., "Year of the Hare: Bureaucratic Distortion in the U.S. Military View of the Vietnam War in 1963," M.A. thesis, 1972 Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, Chain of Command (MACV COC) log, 1-5 Jan. 1963, n.d.
	www.loc.gov /rr/mss/text/sheehan.html (8165 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)