VC, BATTLE / CAR FLAG - F-100 COMMANDOS - CU CHI - Tet 1968 - Vietnam War - F.38 for Sale

VC, BATTLE / CAR FLAG - F-100 COMMANDOS - CU CHI - Tet 1968 - Vietnam War - F.38 For Sale

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VC, BATTLE / CAR FLAG - F-100 COMMANDOS - CU CHI - Tet 1968 - Vietnam War - F.38:
$120.00

Measures - 29 x21 inches (75 x 54 cms)

Excellent Piece

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

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 group operatingout of both Saigon and Cu Chi / An Tinh. The F-100 Commandos were repsonsiblefor sabotage in the Saigon area including the bombing of bars frequented by USMilitary, the shooting of US Military Personnel in their hotle rooms,assassination of both US and ARVN Personnel whilst in the streets of Saigon andguerrila actions in the area strecting from Saigon to the Cambodian borderincluding 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 ForcesOperatives that a VC Unit was headquartered there. The destination turned outto be the headquarters of the F-100 Commandos. Led by Van Tung through thetunnel traps and mines the F-100 Commandos were decimated with all found killedor 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 theremainder 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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