1965 - Viet Cong - FLAG - CU CHI - NLF - VC F-100 Commandos. Vietnam War - 5461

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Viet Cong Battle Flag - National Liberation Front - Car Flag - House Flag - Battle Flag
F-100 Commandos - Viet Cong Special Forces Cu Chi - Saigon Bombers
1965 - Viet Cong Flag
NVA - VC - NLF - Large - Excellent War Piece
Mặt Trận Dân Tộc Giải Phóng Miền Nam Việt Nam -
National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam
Giải Phóng Củ Chi - Cu Chi Liberation - 1965
Extra Rare
Measures - 29 x 21 inches ( 75 x 54 cms )
Excellent Piece
NLF, NVA, VC  - Viet Cong / National Liberation Front
Viet Cong, VC, NLF
National Liberation Front
Super Rare Find, this piece made to be carried into battle or hung from car, often from truck aerials or attached to top of bamboo, hung in offices and from building.
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 Program continued to damage the Viet Cong.
The F-100 Commando's, were a mostly youth group operating out of both Saigon and Cu Chi / An Tinh.
The F-100 Commandos were responsible for sabotage in the Saigon area including the bombing of bars frequented by US Military, the shooting of US Military Personnel in their hotel rooms, assassination of both US and ARVN Personnel whilst in the streets of Saigon and guerrilla actions in the area stretching from Saigon to the Cambodian border including actions against Tan Son Nhut (Saigon Air Base)
In October 1971, a Viet Cong defector (Nguyen Van Tung) directed a US Special Forces and ARVN operation to a major tunnel base at An Tinh, advising the Special Forces Operatives that a VC Unit was headquartered there. The destination turned out to be the headquarters of the F-100 Commandos.
Led by Van Tung through the tunnel traps and mines the F-100 Commandos were decimated with all found killed or captured.
On clearance of the area scrapbooks of press clippings marked, 'F-100 Victories' detailed assassinations and bombings throughout Saigon.
A more important find however was a notebook listing close to 80 agents based in Saigon. The list contained their real names, cover names, meeting times and message drop information, as well as their addresses. Of the eighty, some twenty were working with the ARVN in Saigon.
News of the find reached the F-100 Agents in Saigon however not before more than 70 of the agents were captured. Most were executed.
At the end of the Vietnam War, some three and a half years later, Nguyen Thi Kieu, in 1975 a 23 year old girl was honored as a 'Revolutionary Hero of the Fight for Liberation'.
Thi Kieu had, at the age of 19 at the time of the F-100 Raid been the leader of the F-100 Commando's and had been the leader since she was 17.
She had escaped the Saigon Round-Up of October 1971. The F-100 Commandos however ceased to be a fighting force with no major acts of sabotage in Saigon for the remainder of the war.
NLF - National Liberation Front
The Việt Cộng, also known as the National Liberation Front (NLF), was a communist political organization with its own army – the People's Liberation Armed Forces of South Vietnam (PLAF) – in South Vietnam and Cambodia that fought the United States and South Vietnamese governments, 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 it controlled. Many soldiers were recruited in South Vietnam, but others were attached to the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN), the regular North Vietnamese army.
During the war, communists and anti-war activists insisted the Việt Cộng was an insurgency indigenous to the South, while the U.S. and South Vietnamese governments portrayed the group as a tool of Hanoi. Although the terminology distinguishes northerners from the southerners, communist forces were under a single command structure set up in 1958.
North Vietnam established the National Liberation Front on December 20, 1960, to grow insurgency in the South. Many of the Việt Cộng's core members were volunteer "regroupees", southern Việt Minh who had resettled in the North after the Geneva Accord (1954).
Hanoi gave the regroupees military training and sent 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 American imperialists" and to make "efforts toward the peaceful unification".
The People's Liberation Armed Forces of South Vietnam (PLAF)'s best-known action was the Tet Offensive, a massive assault on more than 100 South Vietnamese urban centers in 1968, including an attack on the U.S. embassy in Saigon.
The offensive riveted the attention of the world's media for weeks, but also overextended the Việt Cộng. Later communist offensives were conducted predominantly by the North Vietnamese. The organization was dissolved in 1976 when North and South Vietnam were officially unified under a communist government.
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