Vietnam

France was just keeping up with European traditions at the time, the usual colonies: Britain's America, Australia; France and Spain's America; Germany, Belgium, Portugal's Africa; Britain's India; etc.

Japan was engaged with conquests, which required "stepping stones"; Indochina was one of them. Japan was moving rapidly in nearly all directions, as was Germany; North (Alaska), South towards Australia, and west towards India (they were stopped in India at Imphal).

Indochina was but a base for future campaigns (operations). Example: The British battleship HMS Prince of Wales and battlecruiser HMS Repulse were both sunk from Japanese bombers which took off from airfields located in the former "South Vietnam."

Bottom line: France was for prestige and financial gain (Colonies=business ventures). Japan was for conquest expansion. Although, it should be noted that with any conquest, from any nation; Rome, Ghengis Khan, Attila the Hun, Napoleon, Hitler, North Korea, etc. "prestige & riches (financial gain)" are automatically inherent to those conquests."

By loosening the government control.

In 1967 and 1968, Senator William Fulbright held public hearings on the war.

1. US Armored Cav squadrons used the M551 Sheridan tank. 2. US Armor Battalions used the M48A3 Patton medium tank. 3. US Marine Tank battalions used the M48A3 Patton medium tank. 4. ARVN regiments used the M41 Walker Bulldog Light tank. 5. Australians (1st Armored Regiment) used the Centurion medium tank. 6. NVA used T-54/55 medium tanks & PT-76 Light tanks. Other Armored Fighting Vehicles (AFVs) used were: A. M-42 Duster, twin 40mm guns. B. M-50 Ontos, multible 106mm Recoilless Rifles. C. M-113 APC/ACAV (Armored Personnel Carrier/Armored Cavalry Assault Vehicle); one .50 caliber machinegun and two side mounted M60 machineguns. D. V-100 Armored Car, twin machineguns. E. USMC Amphibious tractors (AMTRACS).

Ho Chi Minh, founder of "Communist" Vietnam, originally was not Communist. But to overthrow the French from French Indochina (Now Vietnam); Minh needed military support. First going to the USA, America turned down this offer, since America and France were close allies. Minh, naturally, went to the second world superpower, The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The USSR, helping spread anti-capitalist, made Ho Chi Minh swear allegiance to the USSR and to Communism in support for military support.

So in short, the only reason why Vietnam is Communist today is because Ho Chi Minh needed help freeing Vietnam from the French and the USSR offered its support in exchange for Vietnam becoming a Communist State.

The Soviet Union, China, North Korea and North Vietnam.

Centuries ago China, in the late 19th and early 20th century France.

The Soviet Union supported Ho Chi Minh in his push for Vietnamese independence.

The Great Society program became Johnson's agenda for Congress in January 1965: aid to education, attack on disease, Medicare, urban renewal, beautification, conservation, development of depressed regions, a wide-scale fight against poverty, control and prevention of crime and delinquency, and the removal of obstacles

they stopped them from trading with other countries. Oil embargo, which weakened Japan.

Good way to look at it. Everything they took during their offensive, the allies re-captured. Over-all (strategic) they came out on top though...

Unlike previous wars, Vietnam was heavily televised; WORLD WIDE. So the Reds won their propaganda offensive (a strategic victory). However, they did lose their VC allies, they became nearly a token force after the Tet Offensive. The NVA carried on with the war from '68 onward...the VC still existed, but that was all.

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1. The French War (1st IndoChina War) created two separate countries; N & S Vietnam.

2. The French War (1st Indo-China War) gave Ho Chi Minh and General Giap extensive combat experience, for their next war...against the US.

3. The French riverine forces from the 1st Indo-China War gave their experiences to the US Navy when the USN created their "Riverine Forces" (Brown Water Navy). As one example, the French designed and built RAG boat (River Assault Boat) was used as an inspiration for the US Navy to build the only purpose built (designed specifically for Vietnam) river assault boat during the war; the Alpha Boat (ASPB-Assault Support Patrol Boat) an all steel constructed riverine destroyer built in Oregon USA.

North Vietnam also drafted it's men; captured NVA pith helmets had graffiti written on them that read in Vietnamese, "Born in the North, died in the South."

The first US military personnel arrived in Saigon in 1950 to assist the French in their war against the communist-led Viet Minh nationalists in the north. After independence and partition in 1954, the first US combat troops arrived in 1965 to support the military regime in South Vietnam against a communist-led insurgency supported by North Vietnam.

Audie Murphy (my hero)

I know of three father and sons who served together at the same time during the Vietnam war. The first father and son are well known around the world. The son became a Prisoner of War after being shot down over North Vietnam on his 23rd bombing mission. He is better know today as Senator John McCain III, a navy pilot during the war. Equally well known is his father, Admiral John S. McCain Jr., appointed Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Command in 1968. After his son was taken prisoner in Hanoi, North Vietnam, Admiral McCain would visit the troops nearest the DMZ, he would be alone looking north to be as close to his son as could be. Both father and son were stationed in Vietnam serving at the same time, unfortunately, one was in the North as a POW and the other was in the South as Commander-in-Chief.

There was another father and son who served at the same time in South Vietnam, who are not well known, but none the less were in country at the same time in 1970-1971. The father was Air Force Master Sargent James Romaine. The son was Marine Corps Corporal Bruce Romaine, assigned to 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division. The son was about 12-14 miles north of Da Nang with the 1st Marines at a place called Dai Loc Pass. The father was at Da Nang Air Force Base. M/Sgt. Romaine arrived in country 1 month ahead of his son.

I don't remember the names of the third father and son, but I believe they were Army helicopter pilots stationed in the southern portion of Vietnam near the delta. I read a story of one rescuing the other when their helicopter was shot down. However I don't recall any names.

These are the three that I am aware of.

Bruce E. Romaine

Vietnam 70-71

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Here are some Vietnamese names that I know:

By the way, when you read it, it may sound weird, but if you say it in Vietnamese it would sound better and more right and correct.

-Girls-

My-Le (me-lay): "Beautiful Female"

Hong(hunm): "Pink"

Hoa(ho-a): "Flower"

Xuan(suan): "Spring"

Thu(two): "Fall/Autumn"

Ha(ha-): "Summer"

Bao(bow): this is just is a cute name for a girl

-Boy-

Anh-Tuan(an-two-an: "Handsome Male"

Hung(huu-ng): "Manly Guy"

Dong(dung): "Winter"

Ngoc(knock): "Pearl"

Chau(chow): "Pearl"

Yeu(ew) or Tinh(tin): "Love"

I tried my best! But it can be switch around too, it doesn't have to be exactly boy-girl, like "Ngoc" can be a boy or a girl's name. So are some others. I'm not sure if you wanted it translated or not but I did it anyways. Some of them, I'm not sure at the translation part like, "Hung" means "Manly Guy". But if you want it not translated I can definitely give you more than this but yea. :) Sorry I wrote to many words instead of viet names.:( But I hope that this helps

Vietnam veterans, as many other veterans, experience a variety of issues upon returning home from war. These can be both physical and mental, such as post traumatic stress disorder, depression, loneliness, inability to get close to others, drug and alcohol issues, trouble finding work as a civilian, and even homelessness.

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Early in the war under operation "Rolling Thunder" troop concentrations, conventional AAA batteries, bridges, and roads were the primary targets. As the war progressed, and operations such as "Linebacker" and "Linebacker II" were launched, oil storage facilities, MIG-17, MIG-19, and MIG-21 air bases, and missile sites were targeted. As well as the capital itself, Hanoi.

Australian troops were fighting in Vietnam as allies of South Vietnam, along with those of the US, South Korea, and New Zealand. Militarily, each of the allies fulfilled different roles and employed different approaches and tactics.

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Vietnam

The official name of the Vietnam Wall in Washington, D.C. is the "Vietnam Veterans Memorial." It is also referred to as "the Wall." The figures of the servicemen by the Wall are called "The Three Servicemen." The memorial is different than most war memorials. It is not a memorial to the war but is a memorial to all who served in Vietnam, both dead and those still living.