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| x Vietnam War |
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South Vietnam | Southeast Asia | Ngo Dinh Diem |
The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported...
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| Thailand | Vietnam | Nguyen Van Thieu | |||
| United States of America | South Vietnam | Creighton Abrams | |||
| Australia | Cambodia | Robert McNamara | |||
| South Korea | Laos | William Westmoreland | |||
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| x Tết Offensive |
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South Vietnam | South Vietnam | William Westmoreland |
The Tet Offensive was a military campaign during the Vietnam War that was launched on January 30, 1968 by forces of the People's Army of Vietnam against the forces of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), the United States, and their allies. The...
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| United States of America | Vo Nguyen Giap | ||||
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| x Battle of Nam Dong | Australia | Nam Dong CIDG Camp |
The Battle of Nam Dong was fought on July 5 until the next day on in 1964, when the Viet Cong and PAVN attacked the Nam Dong CIDG camp in an attempt to overrun it.
Nam Dong is situated 32 miles west of Da Nang in a valley near the Laotian border; it...
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| United States of America | Nam Đông District | ||||
| National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam | |||||
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| x Battle of Ap Bac |
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United States of America | Ap Bac |
The Battle of Ap Bac was a major battle fought on January 3, 1963, during the Vietnam War. It was fought in Dinh Tuong Province (now part of Tiền Giang Province), South Vietnam. On December 28, 1962, U.S. intelligence detected the presence of a...
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| National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam | Tien Giang Province | ||||
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| x Battle of Hiep Hoa | United States of America | Hiep Hoa |
The Battle of Hiep Hoa was a minor battle of the Vietnam War. On the night of November 22, 1963, an estimated 500 FNL fighters overrun the Hiep Hoa Special Forces Camp, resulting in four American personnel MIA. South Vietnamese commando units and...
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| National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam | Hiep Hoa | ||||
| South Vietnam | South Vietnam | ||||
| x Operation Barrell Roll |
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Kingdom of Laos | Laos | Lyndon B. Johnson |
Operation Barrel Roll was a covert U.S. Air Force 2nd Air Division (later the Seventh Air Force) and U.S. Navy Task Force 77, interdiction and close air support campaign conducted in the Kingdom of Laos between 14 December 1964 and 29 March 1973...
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| x Battle of Kham Duc |
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Australia | Kham Duc | William Westmoreland |
The Battle of Kham Duc was a major battle of the Vietnam War, also known in Vietnam as the American War. The event occurred in Quang Tin Province (now part of Quang Nam), South Vietnam, between May 10 and May 12, 1968. During the Tet Offensive of...
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| United States of America | Quang Nam Province | ||||
| National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam | South Vietnam | ||||
| North Vietnam | |||||
| South Vietnam | |||||
| x Battle of Ong Thanh |
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United States of America | Ong Thanh |
The Battle of Ong Thanh was fought on the morning of October 17, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam. During the first few months of 1967, the Viet Cong absorbed heavy losses as a result of large-scale search and destroy missions conducted...
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| National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam | Binh Duong Province | ||||
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| x Battle of Fire Support Base Ripcord | United States of America | Fire Support Base Ripcord | Benjamin Harrison |
The Battle of Fire Support Base Ripcord was a 23 day battle between the U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division and the North Vietnamese Army from July 1, 1970 until July 23, 1970. It was the last major confrontation between United States ground forces...
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| North Vietnam | South Vietnam | Vo Nguyen Giap | |||
| x The Battle of Hue |
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United States of America | Huế |
The Battle of Hue during 1968 (also called the Siege of Hue), was one of the bloodiest and longest battles of the Vietnam War (1959–1975). The Army of the Republic of Vietnam and three understrength U.S. Marine Corps battalions attacked and defeated...
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| North Vietnam | South Vietnam | ||||
| South Vietnam | |||||
| National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam | |||||
| x Battle of Dong Xoai |
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National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam | Dong Xoai |
The Battle of Dong Xoai (Vietnamese: Trận Đồng Xoài) was a major battle fought during the Communist Summer Offensive of 1965 as part of the Vietnam War. The battle took place in Phuoc Long Province, South Vietnam, between June 9 and 13, 1965. In...
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| x Battle of Hill 881 |
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United States of America | Khe Sanh |
The Battle of Hill 881 was a battle during the Vietnam War between the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN, or in US sources "North Vietnamese Army" or NVA) and United States Marines. Conducted in the I Corps Tactical Zone it became known as "the Hill...
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| North Vietnam | South Vietnam | ||||
| x Battle of July Two | North Vietnam | Quang Tri Province |
The Battle of July Two was a short engagement of the Vietnam War that took place along Route 561 between Gia Binh and An Kha, during Operation Buffalo.
Leading up to this battle, the North Vietnamese Army was reported to have moved back into the...
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| United States of America | South Vietnam | ||||
| x Battle of FSB Mary Ann | United States of America | Fire Support Base Mary Ann |
The Battle of FSB Mary Ann occurred when Viet Cong sappers attacked the U.S. firebase located in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam early on the morning of 28 March 1971.
Fire support base Mary Ann was located to interdict movement of enemy troops...
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| National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam | |||||
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| x First Battle of Saigon |
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United States of America | Ho Chi Minh City | William Westmoreland |
The First Battle of Saigon, fought during the Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War, was the coordinated attack by communist forces, including both the North Vietnamese Army and the Viet Cong, against Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam.
In 1968 the...
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| National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam | South Vietnam | Nguyen Van Thieu | |||
| North Vietnam | Vo Nguyen Giap | ||||
| South Vietnam | |||||
| x Battle of Hamburger Hill |
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United States of America | Hill 937 |
The Battle of Hamburger Hill was a battle of the Vietnam War that was fought by the United States and South Vietnam against North Vietnamese forces from May 10–20, 1969. Although the heavily fortified Hill 937 was of little strategic value, U.S....
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| x Battle of Long Tan |
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Australia | Long Tan | Harry Smith |
The Battle of Long Tân (18 August 1966) was fought between the Australian Army and Viet Cong forces in a rubber plantation near the village of Long Tân, about 27 kilometres (17 mi) north east of Vũng Tàu, South Vietnam. The action occurred when D...
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| New Zealand | Phuoc Tuy province | ||||
| United States of America | South Vietnam | ||||
| National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam | |||||
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| x Battle of Chan La | United States of America | South Vietnam |
The Battle of Cha La was a battle of the Vietnam War. The assault by Viet Cong forces was one in a series of attacks since the battle of Ap Bac back in January, in an attempt to recover momentum lost from the battle and its ensuing skirmishes.
The...
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| National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam | |||||
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| x Battle of Lang Vei |
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United States of America | Lang Vei |
The Battle of Lang Vei began on the evening of February 6 and concluded during the early hours of February 7, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam. Towards the end of 1967 the 198th Tank Battalion, Vietnam People’s Army (VPA) 203rd Armored...
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| North Vietnam | Quang Tri Province | ||||
| South Vietnam | South Vietnam | ||||
| Kingdom of Laos | |||||
| x Battle of Song Be | United States of America | Song Be |
The Battle of Song Be was a major action between the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam (Viet Cong) and Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) in May 1965.
Planned as a major show of force against the ARVN forces, the NLF attempted...
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| National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam | South Vietnam | ||||
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| x Battle of An Lao | United States of America | An Lao, Binh Dinh |
The Battle of An Lao occurred after the Viet Cong captured the district headquarters of An Lao, Binh Dinh, about 300 miles from Saigon. Viet Cong rebels launched an early morning surprise attacks, attack squads scaling the fence and lobbing grenades...
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| National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam | South Vietnam | ||||
| South Vietnam | |||||
| x Battle of Dak To |
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United States of America | Dak To | ||
| North Vietnam | |||||
| South Vietnam | |||||
| National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam | |||||
| Vietnam | |||||
| x Battle of Xa Cam My | United States of America | South Vietnam |
The Battle of Xa Cam My was a battle of the Vietnam War fought over two days from April 11–12, 1966. Originally planned as a U.S. search and destroy mission intended to lure out the "crack" Viet Cong D800 Battalion, Charlie Company soon found itself...
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| National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam | Phuoc Tuy province | ||||
| x Operation Cedar Falls |
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United States of America | Củ Chi district, Hồ Chí Minh City |
Operation Cedar Falls was a military operation of the Vietnam War conducted primarily by US forces. The aim of this massive search and destroy operation was to eradicate the so-called "Iron Triangle", an area located in close proximity to Saigon...
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| National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam | South Vietnam | ||||
| North Vietnam | |||||
| South Vietnam | |||||
| x Gulf of Tonkin Incident |
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North Vietnam | Gulf of Tonkin |
The Gulf of Tonkin Incident, or the USS Maddox Incident, are the names given to two separate confrontations, one actual and one now recognized as non-existent, involving North Vietnam and the United States in the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin. On...
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| x Mayagüez incident |
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United States of America | Democratic Kampuchea |
The Mayaguez incident between the Khmer Rouge and the United States from May 12–15, 1975, was the last official battle of the Vietnam War. The names of the Americans killed, as well as those of three Marines who were left behind on the island of Koh...
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| x Operation Tailwind |
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North Vietnam | Laos |
Operation Tailwind was a covert incursion into southeastern Laos during the Vietnam War, conducted between 11–13 September 1970. The purpose of the operation was to create a diversion for a Royal Lao Army offensive and to exert pressure on the...
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| x Secret War | Kingdom of Laos | Kingdom of Laos |
The Laotian Civil War (1953–75) was a fight between the Communist Pathet Lao, often North Vietnamese of Lao ancestry, and the Royal Lao Government in which both the political rightists and leftists received heavy external support for a proxy war...
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| x Operation Rolling Thunder |
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North Vietnam | North Vietnam |
Operation Rolling Thunder was the title of a gradual and sustained US 2nd Air Division (later Seventh Air Force), US Navy, and Republic of Vietnam Air Force (VNAF) aerial bombardment campaign conducted against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam ...
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| China | |||||
| x Battle of Khe Sanh |
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North Vietnam | Khe Sanh | William Westmoreland |
The Battle of Khe Sanh was conducted in northwestern Quang Tri Province, Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), between 21 January and 9 July 1968 during the Vietnam War. The combatants were elements of the United States (U.S.) III Marine Amphibious...
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| South Vietnam | South Vietnam | Vo Nguyen Giap | |||
| Robert McNamara | |||||
| x Cambodian Civil War |
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National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam | Cambodia | Pol Pot |
The Cambodian Civil War was a conflict that pitted the forces of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (known as the Khmer Rouge) and their allies the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) and the Viet Cong against the government forces of...
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| North Vietnam | Khmer Republic | ||||
| South Vietnam | |||||
| Khmer Rouge | |||||
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| x Operation Ivory Coast |
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China | Son Tay prison camp |
Operation Ivory Coast was a failed rescue mission conducted in North Vietnam during the Vietnam War by United States Special Operations Forces and other elements of the U.S. military.
On November 21, 1970, a joint United States Air Force/United...
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| United States of America | North Vietnam | ||||
| North Vietnam | |||||
| Soviet Union | |||||
| x Operation Linebacker II |
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United States of America | North Vietnam |
Operation Linebacker II was a US Seventh Air Force and US Navy Task Force 77 aerial bombing campaign, conducted against targets in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) during the final period of US involvement in the Vietnam War. The...
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| x Operation Commando Hunt |
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United States of America | Ho Chi Minh trail |
Operation Commando Hunt was a covert U.S. Seventh Air Force and U.S. Navy Task Force 77 aerial interdiction campaign that took place during the Vietnam War. The operation began on 11 November 1968 and ended on 29 March 1972. The objective of the...
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| x Eastertide Offensive |
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United States of America | South Vietnam |
The Easter Offensive, and also (Chiến dịch Xuân hè 1972 in Vietnamese) was a military campaign conducted by the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) against the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN, the regular army of South Vietnam) and the United...
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| National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam | |||||
| North Vietnam | |||||
| South Vietnam | |||||
| x Operation Starlite |
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United States of America | Van Tuong |
Operation Starlite was the first major offensive regimental size action conducted by a purely U.S. military unit during the Vietnam War. The operation was launched based on intelligence provided by Major General Nguyen Chanh Thi, the commander of...
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| National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam | |||||
| x Operation Igloo White |
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United States of America | Laos |
Operation Igloo White was a covert United States Air Force electronic warfare operation conducted from late January 1968 until February 1973, during the Vietnam War. This state-of-the-art operation utilized electronic sensors, computers, and...
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| x Battle of Ia Drang |
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United States of America | Ia Drang Valley |
The Battle of Ia Drang was the first major battle between regulars of the United States Army and regulars of the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN / NVA) of North Vietnam during the Vietnam War. The two-part battle took place between November 14 and...
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| National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam | South Vietnam | ||||
| North Vietnam | |||||
| South Vietnam | |||||
| x Fall of Saigon | National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam | Ho Chi Minh City | Gerald Ford |
The Fall of Saigon (or Liberation of Saigon) was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front on April 30, 1975. The event marked the end of the Vietnam War and the start of a...
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| North Vietnam | South Vietnam | ||||
| South Vietnam | |||||
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| x Operation Linebacker |
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United States of America | North Vietnam |
Operation Linebacker was the title of a U.S. Seventh Air Force and U.S. Navy Task Force 77 aerial interdiction campaign conducted against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) from 9 May to 23 October 1972, during the Vietnam War.
Its...
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| x Operation Hastings |
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United States of America | Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone |
Operation Hastings was an American military operation in the Vietnam War. The operation was a qualified success in that it pushed the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) forces back across the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). As the NVA clearly did not feel...
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| x Operation Jefferson Glenn | United States of America | South Vietnam |
Operation Jefferson Glenn ran from September 5, 1970 to October 6, 1971 and was the last major operation in which U.S. ground forces participated in Vietnam. It was the final major offensive in which the 101st Airborne Division fought. This was a...
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| Vietnam | Thua Thien-Hue Province | ||||
| North Vietnam | |||||
| x Operation Union | United States of America | Que Son Valley |
Operation Union was a military operation conducted by the United States Marine Corps during the Vietnam War. It was a search and destroy mission in the Que Son Valley carried out by the 1st Marine Regiment. The object of the operation was the 2nd...
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| North Vietnam | South Vietnam | ||||
| x Operations Malheur I and Malheur II | United States of America | South Vietnam |
Operation Malheur I and Operation Malheur II were a series of search and destroy operations conducted by the 1st Brigade 101st Airborne Division operating as part of Task Force Oregon in Quang Ngai Province.
Operation Malheur I began on May 11, 1967...
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| National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam | Quang Ngai Province | ||||
| North Vietnam | |||||
| South Vietnam | |||||
| x Operation Junction City |
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United States of America | Tay Ninh Province |
Operation Junction City was an 82-day military operation conducted by United States and Republic of Vietnam (RVN or South Vietnam) forces begun on 22 February 1967 during the Vietnam War. It was the largest U.S. airborne operation since Operation...
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| National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam | South Vietnam | ||||
| North Vietnam | |||||
| South Vietnam | |||||
| x Operation Menu |
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United States of America | Cambodia |
Operation Menu was the codename of a covert United States Strategic Air Command (SAC) bombing campaign conducted in eastern Cambodia and Laos from 18 March 1969 until 26 May 1970, during the Vietnam War. The supposed targets of these attacks were...
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| National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam | Laos | ||||
| North Vietnam | |||||
| x Cambodian Incursion |
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National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam | Cambodia | Creighton Abrams |
The Cambodian Campaign (also known as the Cambodian Incursion) was a series of military operations conducted in eastern Cambodia during mid-1970 by the United States (U.S.) and the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) during the Vietnam War. These...
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| South Vietnam | |||||
| x Battle of Xuân Lộc |
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North Vietnam | Xuân Lộc |
The Battle of Xuan Loc (Vietnamese: Trận Xuân Lộc) was the last major battle of the Vietnam War. The battle was fought between April 9–21, 1975, and ended when the town of Xuan Loc was captured by the North Vietnamese 4th Army Corps.
From the...
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| South Vietnam | South Vietnam | ||||
| United States of America | |||||
| National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam | |||||
| Vietnam | |||||
| x United States Air Force In South Vietnam |
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South Vietnam |
What began as a military aid program by the United States in 1950 to assist the French in subduing communist rebels in French Indochina, became, by 1965 an all-out war between South Vietnam and North Vietnam in which the United States was deeply...
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| x United States Air Force In Thailand |
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Thailand |
The United States Air Force deployed combat aircraft to Thailand from 1961 to 1975 during the Vietnam War. Today, USAF units train annually with other Asian Air Forces in Thailand. Royal Thai Air Force Bases are an important element in the Pentagon...
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| x Battle of the Iron Triangle | Vietnam | Rach Bap |
The Battle of the Iron Triangle took place on May 16, 1974, when the 9th Division of the Vietnam People's Army backed by a small contingent of tanks launched an attack on Rach Bap, took possession of An Dien and pushed south towards Phu Cuong.
The...
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| x Battle of Bình Gia | United States of America | Bình Gia |
The Battle of Bình Gia (Vietnamese: Trận Bình Giã), which was part of a larger communist campaign, was conducted by the Viet Cong from December 28, 1964, to January 1, 1965, during the Vietnam War in Bình Giã (Vietnamese: Bình Giã). The battle took...
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| National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam | Bình Giã | ||||
| South Vietnam | Phuoc Tuy province | ||||
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| x Battle of Ba Gia |
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United States of America | Ba Gia |
The Battle of Ba Gia was a major battle that marked the beginning of the National Liberation Front's Summer Offensive of 1965, during the early phases of the Vietnam War, which is known in Vietnam as the American War. The battle took place in Quang...
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| National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam | Quảng Ngãi | ||||
| South Vietnam | |||||
| x Operation Chenla II |
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National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam | Kampong Thom |
Operation Chenla II was a major military operation conducted by the Cambodian military (then known as FANK) during the Cambodian Civil War. It began on August 20 and lasted until December 3, 1971.
During the days of Prince Norodom Sihanouk's rule in...
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| x Battle of Prey Veng | National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam | Prey Veng |
The Battle of Prey Veng was part of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam's (ARVN) campaign in Cambodia. It took place in Prey Veng on June 15, 1970, where ARVN and Cambodian troops battled the Vietnam People's Army and Vietcong forces. It ended with...
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| x Battle of Kompong Speu | Vietnam | Kampong Speu |
The Battle of Kompong Speu began on June 12, 1970 when the combined forces of the South Vietnamese and Cambodian Armies fought to recapture the provincial capital of Kompong Speu. The town was captured by Communist forces on June 13 but was retaken...
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| x Ho Chi Minh Campaign |
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United States of America | South Vietnam | Nguyen Van Thieu |
The 1975 Spring Offensive (Vietnamese: Chiến dịch Mùa Xuân 1975) was a series of increasingly large-scale and ambitious offensive operations by the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) and the National Front for the Liberation of South...
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| National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam | |||||
| North Vietnam | |||||
| South Vietnam | |||||
| x Operation Attleboro |
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United States of America | Dau Tieng |
Operation Attleboro was a search and destroy operation by the 196th Light Infantry Brigade. The operation was named after Attleboro, Massachusetts, where the brigade had been formed. Operation Attleboro turned out to be the largest series of air...
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| National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam | South Vietnam | ||||
| North Vietnam | |||||
| South Vietnam | |||||
| x Operation Masher/White Wing | United States of America | Kim Son |
Operation Masher was a combined U.S., ARVN, and ROKA operation that began on January 28, 1966. The name "Operation Masher" was changed to "Operation White Wing", because the name was deemed too crude for 'nation-building'.
The mission was a search...
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| National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam | An Lao, Binh Dinh | ||||
| North Vietnam | Kim Sơn | ||||
| South Vietnam | South Vietnam | ||||
| South Korea | |||||
| x Operation Lam Son 719 |
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United States of America | Ho Chi Minh trail |
Operation Lam Son 719 (Vietnamese: Chiến dịch Lam Sơn 719 or Chiến dịch đường 9 – Nam Lào) was a limited-objective offensive campaign conducted in southeastern portion of the Kingdom of Laos by the armed forces of the Republic of Vietnam (South...
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