Abandoning Their Uniform
This image speaks a thousand words. South Vietnamese soldiers abandoned their military uniforms in the wake of the North Vietnamese army’s approach on Saigon. The North was gaining a fast and powerful advance, and these soldiers knew well enough that the Viet Cong would not treat enemy soldiers with compassion.
Abandoning Their Uniform
Search And Destroy
The Viet Cong were outmaneuvering the U.S. led coalition in Vietnam, so the U.S. Army set up a special force whose task was to search and destroy the enemy. With the Viet Cong’s successful guerrilla tactics of laying land mines and booby traps, the force faced staunch opposition.
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Search And Destroy
