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Battle of HUE - NLF Viet Cong Flag - TET OFFENSIVE 1968 - Vietnam War - F.102:
$112.49

Measures - 29 x21 inches (75 x 54 cms)

Excellent Piece

NLF, NVA, VC - Viet Cong / National Liberation Front

Battle of Hue Citadel - Vietnam War - 1968

January 30, 1968: The Tet Offensive begins with coordinated attacks by the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces across South Vietnam, including an assault on the city of Huế.

January 31, 1968: North Vietnamese forces, including elements of the 4th and 6th NVA Regiments and Viet Cong guerrillas, seize control of much of the city, including the Citadel, a historic walled fortress and the site of intense fighting.

February 1-25, 1968: U.S. and South Vietnamese forces, including the U.S. 1st Marine Division and ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam) units, launch a counteroffensive to retake the city. Heavy fighting occurs throughout the Citadel and other parts of the city, with intense urban combat and house-to-house fighting.

February 24, 1968: U.S. Marines raise the American flag over the Citadel, signaling the recapture of the historic fortress. However, pockets of resistance continue to hold out in other parts of the city.

February 25, 1968: The last of the organized North Vietnamese resistance in Huế is defeated, although sporadic fighting and mopping-up operations continue for several more weeks.

March-April 1968: U.S. and ARVN forces continue to clear remaining pockets of resistance in Huế and the surrounding areas. The battle officially ends in late April, although some skirmishes continue to occur.

The Battle of Huế was one of the longest and bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War, with heavy casualties on both sides. The intense urban combat and the involvement of North Vietnamese forces in a major city shocked many Americans and had a significant impact on perceptions of the war.

30th of January 1968 – First Night of the Tet Offensive

Whether by accident or design, the first wave of attacks began shortly after midnight on 30 January as all five provincial capitals in II Corps and Da Nang, in I Corps, were attacked.

Nha Trang, headquarters of the U.S. I Field Force (FFI), was the first to be hit, followed shortly by Ban Mê Thuột, Kon Tum, Hội An, Tuy Hòa, Da Nang, Qui Nhơn, and Pleiku.

During all of these operations, the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese followed a similar pattern: mortar or rocket attacks were closely followed by massed ground assaults conducted by battalion-strength elements of the Viet Cong, sometimes supported by North Vietnamese regulars.

These forces would join with local cadres who served as guides to lead the regulars to the most senior South Vietnamese headquarters and the radio station.

The operations, however, were not well coordinated at the local level.

By daylight, almost all communist forces had been driven from their objectives.

General Phillip B. Davidson, the new MACV chief of intelligence, notified Westmoreland that \"This is going to happen in the rest of the country tonight and tomorrow morning.\"

All U.S. forces were placed on maximum alert and similar orders were issued to all ARVN units. The allies, however, still responded without any real sense of urgency. Orders cancelling leaves either came too late or were disregarded.

NLF - National Liberation Front

The Việt Cộng, also known as the NationalLiberation Front (NLF), was a communist political organization with its ownarmy – the People\'s Liberation Armed Forces of South Vietnam (PLAF) – in SouthVietnam and Cambodia that fought the United States and South Vietnamesegovernments, 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 itcontrolled. Many soldiers were recruited in South Vietnam, but others wereattached to the People\'s Army of Vietnam (PAVN), the regular North Vietnamesearmy.

During the war, communists and anti-waractivists insisted the Việt Cộng was an insurgency indigenous to the South,while the U.S. and South Vietnamese governments portrayed the group as a toolof Hanoi. Although the terminology distinguishes northerners from thesoutherners, communist forces were under a single command structure set up in1958.

North Vietnam established the NationalLiberation Front on December 20, 1960, to grow insurgency in the South. Many ofthe Việt Cộng\'s core members were volunteer \"regroupees\", southern ViệtMinh who had resettled in the North after the Geneva Accord (1954).

Hanoi gave the regroupees military training andsent 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 Americanimperialists\" and to make \"efforts toward the peacefulunification\".

The People\'s Liberation Armed Forces of SouthVietnam (PLAF)\'s best-known action was the Tet Offensive, a massive assault onmore than 100 South Vietnamese urban centers in 1968, including an attack onthe U.S. embassy in Saigon.

The offensive riveted the attention of theworld\'s media for weeks, but also overextended the Việt Cộng. Later communistoffensives were conducted predominantly by the North Vietnamese. Theorganization was dissolved in 1976 when North and South Vietnam were officiallyunified under a communist government.

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