Description: Viet Cong Battle Flag - Car Flag - Viet CongThe General Offensive and General Uprising started on the night of January 30 and early morning of January 31, 1968 (the eve of the Mau Than Lunar New Year). National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam - Car Flag - House Flag - Battle Flag NLF - Communist Army of South Vietnam - NLF - VC Excellent War Piece - Original - Excellent Condition Measures - 29 x 21 inches (75 x 54 cms) Excellent PieceNLF, NVA, VC - Viet Cong / National Liberation Front Battle of Khe Sanh – Siege of Khe Sanh. The Battle of Khe Sanh (21 January – 9 July 1968) was conducted in the Khe Sanh area of northwestern Quảng Trị Province, Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), during the Vietnam War. The main US forces defending Khe Sanh Combat Base (KSCB) were two regiments of US Marines supported by elements from the United States Army, US Special Forces, and the United States Air Force. There were also a small number of South Vietnamese Army (ARVN) troops. These were pitted against two to three divisional-size elements of the North Vietnamese Army. MACV command in Saigon initially believed that combat operations around Khe Sanh Combat Base during and in late 1967 were part of a series of minor North Vietnamese offensives in the border regions. That appraisal was later altered when it was discovered that the NVA was moving major forces into the area. In response, US forces were built up before the NVA isolated the Marine base. Once the base came under siege a series of actions were fought over a period of five months. During this time, Khe Sanh and the hilltop outposts around it were subjected to constant North Vietnamese artillery, mortar, and rocket attacks, and several infantry assaults. To support the Marine base, a massive aerial bombardment campaign (Operation Niagara) was launched by the United States Air Force. Over 100,000 tons of bombs were dropped by US aircraft and over 158,000 artillery rounds were fired in defense of the base. In March 1968, an overland relief expedition (Operation Pegasus) was launched by a combined Marine–Army/South Vietnamese task force that eventually broke through to the Marines at Khe Sanh. In the aftermath, the North Vietnamese proclaimed a victory at Khe Sanh, while US forces claimed that they had withdrawn as the base was no longer required. Historians have observed that the Battle of Khe Sanh may have distracted American and South Vietnamese attention from the buildup of Viet Cong forces in the south before the early 1968 Tet Offensive. Nevertheless, the US commander during the battle, General William Westmoreland, maintained that the true intention of Tet was to distract forces from Khe Sanh. It should also be noted that although US Forces moved out of the main base at Khe Sanh after the Tet Offensive, the surrounding area was still under US Control to the extent that Khe Sanh wasre-opened for use by US Forces on numerous occasions. The latest re-opening was for use as a Forward Operating Base, Dustoff Medevac and MASH base in the Lam Son Operations (US invasion of Laos 1970 – 1972). Normal 0 false false false EN-AU JA AR-SA For your kind Consideration. 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