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Australian soldiers of the 6th RAR return to base after the battle of Long Tan. August 19th, 1966 [627x422]
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Australian soldiers of the 6th RAR return to base after the battle of Long Tan. August 19th, 1966 [627x422]

u/hoyarugby2 — 2 days ago
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US tanks and infantry from the 25th Division seal off the Cholon district of Saigon during "Mini Tet". May 8th, 1968 [500x332]

u/hoyarugby2 — 8 days ago
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A South Vietnamese UH-1 "Huey" drops South Vietnamese troops off in the Mekong Delta. July 18th, 1970 [3138x2165]

u/hoyarugby2 — 14 days ago
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A US C-7 Caribou is hit by a friendly artillery shell while landing at Duc Pho Airbase. All three crewmembers were killed, August 3rd 1967 [792x607]

u/hoyarugby2 — 16 days ago
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The US aircraft carrier USS Forrestal burns after an accidental rocket detonates bombs - 134 sailors were killed. July 29th, 1967 [3000x2248]

u/hoyarugby2 — 22 days ago
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French paratroopers land amid sand dunes during Operation Camargue during the 1st Indochina War. July 28th, 1953 [983x700]

u/hoyarugby2 — 23 days ago
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A M50 Ontos tank destroyer drives past a medic treating a wounded Marine. Hue, Vietnam February 23rd 1968 [1506x1359]

u/hoyarugby2 — 27 days ago
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A destroyed South Vietnamese M41 tank lies buried in the rubble of Quang Tri, the site of the longest and bloodiest battle of the war. 1972 [817x816]

u/hoyarugby2 — 27 days ago
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Why did the US not put serious effort into training and equipping ARVN units until late in the 1960s?

I was watching a lecture about William Westmoreland last night, and the lecturer mentioned that one of his great failures as the architect of US policy in Vietnam was not taking the training and equipping of ARVN forces seriously. He mentioned that ARVN forces were generally more poorly equipped than PAVN ones until Vietnamization, with ARVN's WW2 era weapons outgunned by modern PAVN ones. Another memoir I listened to from a US advisor said that the US hadn't taken the training of RF/PF forces seriously until after Tet, but once they were properly trained and equipped they were very effective

On its face this seems like insane policy by the US. The later war showed that ARVN could hold their own against North Vietnamese forces when supported by US airpower, so why did it take so long for the US to start properly equipping and training ARVN forces?

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u/hoyarugby2 — 27 days ago
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A soldier stands guard during the 1944 Philadelphia transit strike, August 6th 1944 [940x1169]

u/hoyarugby2 — 29 days ago
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A USMC CH-46 Sea King is shot down in "Helicopter Valley" by North Vietnamese antiaircraft fire. 13 Marines were killed, July 15th, 1966 [1600 x 1105]

u/hoyarugby2 — 29 days ago
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A US CH-47 Chinook delivers supplies to Firebase Ripcord, July 21st, 1970. The base would be evacuated the next day [2048x1376]

u/hoyarugby2 — 1 month ago
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ARVN helicopters evacuate soldiers and supplies from Xuan Loc, north of Saigon, during the war's final major battle. April 1975 [1920x1080]

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A North Vietnamese tank cooks off after an ARVN ambush on the streets of Saigon. April 30th, 1975 - the final day of the war [700x1057]

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