BEN CAT - 1968 VIET CONG WAR BANNER / FLAG - VC - NLF - TET - Vietnam War - 4125

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Flag Banner - Viet Cong - Tet Offensive 1968
Việt Nam Dân Chủ Cộng Hòa
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Tăng Tường  Huy Hiệu Thành Đồng Tổ Quốc Cho Đơn Vị: Binh Doan Song Lo Tinh Ben Cat - Binh Duong
The Democratic Republic of Vietnam - (North Vietnam - North Vietnam Army - NVA)
Awards the; - Brass Fortress of the Fatherland Medal to the Lo River Corps of Ben Cat - Binh Duong
1968 Tet Offensive
Military Brass Fortress of the Fatherland
This high ranking Decoration (Thang Dong To Quoc) which held precedence with the three other Hero decorations was usually worn on the left breast.
It has however mysteriously disappeared from the roster of official orders and decorations. It was bestowed for efforts in support of the Resistance in the South. It is most likely that it has been merged with a later order, The Brass Fortress Order (Thang-Dong).
This flag recognizes the award of this medal to the Lo River Group (Song Lo River) for actions during the Tet Offensive in 1968 around Ben Cat in Bing Duong Province.
Note: Banner has been professionally cleaned and is ready for use, hanging, framing etc.
Viet Cong Battle Awarded Unit Banner
National Liberation Front - Unit, Bunker Flag
Excellent War Piece - Original - Excellent Condition
Very Rare Piece - Silk lined to rear - Large Original Flag
Measures - 36 x 27 inches (92 x 69 cms)
Excellent Piece
NLF, NVA, VC  - Viet Cong / National Liberation Front
Tet Offensive Awarded Flag - 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.
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.
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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