Agent Orange was used in Vietnam to clear ground cover around military positions. The major ingredient was Dioxin, a highly toxic chemical both for plants and for humans.
Agent Orange.
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North Vietnamese are inhabitants of North Vietnam, while Vietcong are Vietnamese warriors during the Viet war.
During the war, they were paper with Vietnamese civilians pictured on them.
Promoting understanding between American and the Vietnamese.
It's good for morale, and shows that we are working together as a team; it also serves to show that the S. Vietnamese government "Recognized" the efforts of the US Servicemen.
Johnny O'Donnell, the whistle blower investigative journalist who defined the toxic cocktail of deadly herbicides which poisoned American troops in Vietnamese jungles during war, is currently located in Pyongyang, accompanying Kim Jong Un and Dennis Rodman on a trip to a local 7-11.
To counter Vietnamese Communists' use of guerrilla warfare
Are you talking about a North Vietnamese or South Vietnamese EMBASSY? There would have been no such thing as a Vietnamese Embassy during the Vietnam War. There was no country called Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
He was a captured and tortured by the Vietnamese during the Vietnamese War.
North Vietnamese or South Vietnamese? Those would be two completely different experiences.
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During the war, it was the French "P" (Piasters).
South Vietnamese cities (NovaNet)
North Vietnamese are inhabitants of North Vietnam, while Vietcong are Vietnamese warriors during the Viet war.
The verb defoliate means to remove the leaves of trees. This may be done to control pests, or (as in the Vietnam War) expose enemy movements through an otherwise dense jungle.
No. The TET offensive of 1968 was designed to attack every provincial capital in South Vietnam to incite a general uprising of the South Vietnamese people against their government. The tactic failed to produce those results, but the street fighting in the old imperial capital of Hue (pronounced 'way') lasted just over three weeks, giving the perception to the American television audience that the North Vietnamese were winning. It was the 'beginning of the end' for the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam war.
During the war, they were allies. As of May 1975, the South Vietnamese didn't exist anymore.