F-100 COMMANDOS - Viet Cong Flag - CHU CHI TUNNELS, TET 1968, Vietnam War - F.01 for Sale

F-100 COMMANDOS - Viet Cong Flag - CHU CHI TUNNELS, TET 1968, Vietnam War - F.01 For Sale

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F-100 COMMANDOS - Viet Cong Flag - CHU CHI TUNNELS, TET 1968, Vietnam War - F.01:
$374.99

Tặng Thưởng Huân Chương Quân Công Đơn Vị An Ninh 14 Cu ChiVietnam People's Army Commendation Award
Awarded the Military Merit Medal of Security Unit 14 Cu ChiSecurity Unit 14 was a part of the F-100 Commandos

Jungle and Tunnel Fighters - Viet Cong Recon Commando's - Cu Chi /Saigon – F-100 Commandos

By late 1971,with the removal of most of the US Military from the War the Phoenix Programcontinued to damage the Viet Cong. The F-100 Commando's, a mostly youth groupoperating out of both Saigon and Cu Chi / An Tinh. The F-100 Commandos wererepsonsible for sabotage in the Saigon area including the bombing of barsfrequented by US Military, the shooting of US Military Personnel in their hotlerooms, assassination of both US and ARVN Personnel whilst in the streets ofSaigon and guerrila actions in the area strecting from Saigon to the Cambodianborder including actions against Tan Son Nhut.

In October1971, a Viet Cong defector (Nguyen Van Tung) directed a US Special Forces andARVN operation to a major tunnel base at An Tinh, advising the Special Forces Operativesthat a VC Unit was headquartered there. The destination turned out to be theheadquarters of the F-100 Commandos. Led by Van Tung through the tunnel trapsand mines the F-100 Commandos were decimated with all found killed or captured.

On clearanceof the area scrapbooks of press clippings marked, 'F-100 Victories' detailedassassinations and bombings throughout Saigon. A more important find howeverwas a notebook listing close to 80 agents based in Saigon. The list containedtheir real names, cover names, meeting times and message drop information, aswell as their addresses. Of the eighty, some twenty were working with the ARVNin Saigon.

News of thefind reached the F-100 Agents in Saigon however not before more than 70 of theagents were captured. Most were executed.

At the end ofthe Vietnam War, some three and a half years later, Nguyen Thi Kieu, in 1975 a23 year old girl was honored as a 'Revolutionary Hero of the Fight forLiberation'. Thi Kieu had, at the age of 19 at the time of the F-100 Raid beenthe leader of the F-100 Commando's and had been the leader since she was 17.

She hadescaped the Saigon Round-Up of October 1971. The F-100 Commandos however ceasedto be a fighting force with no major acts of sabotage in Saigon for the remainderof the war.

Measures - 36 x 27 inches (92 x 69 cms)
Excellent Piece
NLF, NVA, VC - Viet Cong / National Liberation Front

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