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Vĩnh Tế Canal. Coordinates: 10.570°N 104.926°E. A portion of Vĩnh Tế Canal in Châu Đốc, An Giang Province. The Vĩnh Tế Canal ( Vietnamese: Kênh Vĩnh Tế / 涇永濟, [1] Khmer: ព្រែកជីក or ព្រែកយួន) is an 87-kilometre-long (54 mi) canal in southern Vietnam, designed to give the territory of ...
The Tet Offensive was a major escalation and one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War.The Viet Cong (VC) and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) launched a surprise attack on January 30, 1968 against the forces of the South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), the United States Armed Forces and their allies.
Vietnam, [d] [e] officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam ( SRV ), [f] is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about 331,000 square kilometres (128,000 sq mi) and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country.
The Battle of Đồng Hới was a clash between United States Navy warships and Vietnam People's Air Force (VPAF) MiG-17F fighter bombers, several torpedo boats and shore batteries on April 19, 1972, during the Vietnam War. This was the second time U.S. warships faced an air attack since the end of World War II, after the USS Liberty incident .
Vinh wiretap. The Vinh wiretap was an American espionage operation of the Vietnam War. From 7 December 1972 through early May 1973, CIA telephone intercepts of North Vietnamese military communications were supplied to American diplomat Henry Kissinger. As border phone lines were well watched, the decision was made to tap a military multiplex ...
Free Fire is a free-to-play battle royale game developed and published by Garena for Android and iOS. [2] It was released on 8 December 2017. It became the most downloaded mobile game globally in 2019 and has over 1 billion downloads on Google Play Store. In the first quarter of 2021 it was the highest grossing mobile game in the US. [3]
Operation Amarillo, 25 August 1966. On 23 and 24 August the two infantry battalions patrolled the surrounding areas without locating any Viet Cong presence. On the morning of 25 August following an overnight patrol, a 15-man unit from Company C 1/2nd Infantry began to move east to return to Firebase 1 when it was attacked by the Viet Cong Phu ...
Postal codes in Vietnam have five digits. The exact postal code designated for local government areas, local post offices, government offices or embassies and consulates can be searched on National Postal Code Website. Regional and provincial postal codes of Viet Nam
North Vietnamese claim: 49 aircraft shot down [8] Operation Linebacker was the codename of a U.S. Seventh Air Force and U.S. Navy Task Force 77 air interdiction campaign conducted against North Vietnam from 9 May to 23 October 1972, during the Vietnam War .
The 9th Infantry Division ( Vietnamese: Sư đoàn 9; Chữ Hán: 師團9) of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN)—the army of the nation state of South Vietnam that existed from 1961 to 1975—was part of the IV Corps that oversaw the southernmost region of South Vietnam, the Mekong Delta. The 9th Infantry Division was based in Sa Dec ...