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 ...

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.

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, ...

The K-50M had mixed parentage. It combined the features of the French MAT-49 (in particular the buttstock)and China’s Type 50, which was itself based on the Soviet PPSh-41.

The attackers were no ragged band of part-time insurgents: the 275th was a Viet Cong Main Force unit of well-armed, full-time guerrillas in uniform. These VC knew their business: ...

Memories of Vietnam (II): Surprised to be surrounded by a huge Viet Cong force As we went on short final into the LZ, we could see less and less until on the ground, we could see nothing.

At Sealords’ heart was Task Force 194, which borrowed from task forces 115, 116 and 117. Zumwalt’s plan was bolstered by Naval Forces Vietnam’s resources, then at peak strength, with 38,000 ...

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 ...