If there’s no work to be done, they’ll even wash out your rice bowl for you.” Added another peasant in the delta: “The Viet Cong live like us, look like us, share our homes.

Deprived of peasant sustenance and supply, the Red guerrillas withered away. With Operation Sunrise, the South Viet Nam army, aided by U.S. and British military advisers, last week sought to apply ...

Contrary to some histories, the term “Viet Cong,” like the war itself, was not a byproduct of the American presence in Vietnam.

The Viet Cong pick their targets, strike hard, and immediately disperse. Their losses are high — up to 1500 a month — but the size of their regular, uniformed forces continues to increase at ...

In October, 1963, the Baltimore Sun reported an official U.S. estimate of the sources of Viet Cong arms, which indicated that only one out of fifty weapons came from the Communist bloc.

FILE - In this Feb. 1, 1968, file photo, South Vietnamese Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan, chief of the National Police, fires his pistol into the head of suspected Viet Cong officer Nguyen Van Lem (also ...

Villagers saw the Viet Cong carry off two cartloads of their own dead. But in the wreckage of the hamlets there were at least two hundred charred peasant bodies.