The Vietnamese Communists, or Vietcong, were the military branch of the National Liberation Front (NLF), and were commanded by the Central Office for South Vietnam ... a way the war in the ...

This often meant soldiers were easy targets for Vietcong guerrilla attacks as the ... soldiers into the jungle and villages of Vietnam to ‘take the war to the enemy’. This often meant soldiers ...

NEW YORK -- When you are fighting an urban guerrilla war, the last thing you do is taunt ... is already haunted by images of the Vietnam war of the 1970s when the American public was horrified by the ...

In 1965, about 3,500 U.S. Marines landed in Da Nang, South Vietnam. It was the first deployment of a large U.S. ground combat ...

particularly cannabis Drugs were seen as a way to escape the anxieties and horrors of fighting in Vietnam Desertion Huge numbers of soldiers ran away from the army Drafted soldiers were mostly ...

During the Vietnam War, from 1955 to 1975 ... the National Liberation Front turned to guerrilla tactics. They would launch sneak attacks and surprise enemies from the tunnels before disappearing ...