WHEN the monsoon rains began last April, the Viet Cong and PAVN (People’s Army of North Vietnam) had deployed fifty-six main-force battalions in the central highlands of South Vietnam and ...

There are an estimated 30,000 “hard hat” or main-force Viet Cong soldiers and some 50,000 local guerrillas and political agents. No North Vietnamese regulars operate in the Delta, ...

For nearly a month the Viet Cong “main force” has been lying low, ... The Viet Cong were clearly willing to fight when they were engaged, whether in the delta or farther north.

His unit was one of the first "main force" squadrons of Viet Cong sent from the north, and the average age of its soldiers was 35. These regular units, who operated throughout South Vietnam, ...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2, 1968 (UPI) - President Johnson Friday termed the Viet Cong attacks on major South Vietnamese cities "a complete failure" militarily and said they would force no change in ...

Barker’s task force had twice in February 1968 conducted operations in the Son My area — dubbed Pinkville by the U.S. military — in a hunt for members of the beleaguered 48th Viet Cong Local ...

The Mobile Riverine Force . By 1966, the Viet Cong was prosecuting over 1,000 small-scale attacks per month on government posts and isolated villages in the Mekong Delta. The Mobile Riverine Force ...

Thousands of Vietnam vets who returned home unaware that they had been exposed to the same toxic dioxin that was meant to combat their enemies. Now, decades later, Agent Orange is catching up with ...

This article first appeared in the Stars and Stripes Pacific edition, Feb. 10, 1966. It is republished unedited in its original form. BONG SON, Vietnam — They fly at the enemy in plastic bubbles ...

His unit was one of the first "main force" squadrons of Viet Cong sent from the north, and the average age of its soldiers was 35. These regular units, who operated throughout South Vietnam, ...