“The NVA, which stands for the North Vietnamese Army ... We saw that it was the NVA, not the Viet Cong. This was an army. They had artillery. They were heavily armed. There was only 14 of ...

Clearly defined front lines and safe rear areas were absent. Thus, the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) and Viet Cong (VC) targeted air bases on a regular basis and destroyed a large number of aircraft ...

These US and Vietnamese soldiers were killed while fighting the Viet Cong near Saigon. In January 1968, the People's Army of North Vietnam bombarded the US Marine garrison at Khe Sanh in South ...

"It was the first time the North Vietnamese Army came down and linked up with the Viet Cong guerrillas in the south to overrun an American Special Forces training center," Donlon told the American ...

The Viet Cong also tried to gain support ... the anxieties and horrors of fighting in Vietnam Desertion Huge numbers of soldiers ran away from the army Drafted soldiers were mostly young men ...