Rare 1967 Badge - Viet Cong - NLF - Operation Junction City - Vietnam War, C.169 for Sale

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Rare 1967 Badge - Viet Cong - NLF - Operation Junction City - Vietnam War, C.169 For Sale

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Rare 1967 Badge - Viet Cong - NLF - Operation Junction City - Vietnam War, C.169:
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Vietnam War - VC - NLF Viet Cong - North Vietnam Army - Rare Badge

Operation Junction City - 19th of April 1967
Rare Viet Cong Badge and One Only Available.

Vietnam War Original - 1.6 x 1.2 inches (4 x 3cms)

Excellent Rare Piece and One Only Available. This is the only badge that the Viet Cong ever produced with wording in English, celebrating their Victory over the 173rd Airborne during the US named, Operation Junction City.

Badge shows a North Vietnamese male Soldier standing next to a female National Liberation Front Solder and US aircrafts crashing to the ground with the wording to top, Chien Thang (Victory).

Badge also holds date and name of the issuing of the badge.

Operation Junction City

OperationJunction City was an 82-day military operation conducted by United States and ARVNforces.

The Operationcommenced on 22 February 1967.

It was thelargest U.S. airborne operation since Operation Varsity in March 1945, the onlymajor airborne operation of the Vietnam War, and one of the largest U.S.operations of the war.

The operationwas named after Junction City, Kansas, home of the operation\'s commandingofficer.

The stated aimof the almost three-month engagement involving the equivalent of nearly threedivisions of U.S. troops was to locate the elusive \'headquarters\' of theCommunist uprising in South Vietnam, the Central Office of South Vietnam(COSVN).

By someaccounts of U.S. analysts at the time, such a headquarters was believed to bealmost a \"mini-Pentagon,\" complete with typists, file cabinets, andstaff workers possibly guarded by layers of bureaucracy. In truth, after theend of the war, the actual headquarters was revealed by Viet Cong (VC) archivesto be a small and mobile group of people, often sheltering in ad hoc facilitiesand at one point escaping an errant bombing by some hundreds of meters.

JunctionCity\'s grand tactical plan was a \"hammer and anvil\" tactic, whereuponairborne forces would \"flush out\" the VC headquarters, sending themto retreat against a prepared \"anvil\" of other forces.

The U.S.forces included most of the 1st Infantry Division and the 25th InfantryDivision including the 196th Light Infantry Brigade, the airborne troops of the173rd Airborne Brigade and large armored elements of the 11th Armored CavalryRegiment (11th ACR).

Although theobjective of the Operation was never achieved it was still considered a successby Allied Forces.

Results of thebattle as claimed by US Forces was - Allied Forces sustained, 282 killed, 1576wounded,3 tanks destroyed, 21 AFVs destroyed, 5 howitzers destroyed and 11trucks destroyed.

The Viet Congclaimed considerably different results of, 13,500 U.S./ARVN Killed or Wounded, 800armored vehicles destroyed, 119 howitzers destroyed.

The Viet Congreleased no figures on their own losses with the US claiming they had killedmore that 2,700 Viet Cong.

Both the VietCong and the United States claimed Operation Junction City as a Victory.

The Viet Cong adopted the name Operation Junction Cityfor their part in the battle (The only time they did this during the war and inApril 1967 awarded a Badge to participants of the campaign, the only badge theyever issued in English. The badge is bannered across the top ‘Chien Thang’ class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 8pt\">For your kind Consideration.

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