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Lang Vei: Tanks in the Wire I

The fight for the command post, Lang Vei: The NVA tank attack on Lang Vei Special Forces Camp began at 0050 hours, February 7 with PT-76 tanks approaching from three directions: five tanks from the south, four more from QL9 from the west, and two on QL9 from the east”,…

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Lang Vei: Tanks in the Wire II

This photograph showed two knocked-out PT-76 tanks in Lang Vei, taking by U.S. Air Force reconnaissance aircraft in 1968. The camp defenses weren’t designed to repel a tank assault. Lang Vei, situated on a small hill, had a dog-bone shaped perimeter. The camp, built under the ‘fighting camp’ concept, was…

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Lang Vei: Tanks in the Wire III

War correspondent Michael Herr, in his book Dispatches, wrote, “The Marines at Khe Sanh saw the Lang Vei survivors come in. They saw them and heard about them up in their Special Forces compound, holding off all visitors at rifle point, saw their faces and their unfocused stares, and they…

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THE FALL OF LANG VEI

As PAVN forces completed their encirclement of the Marines at Khe Sanh, they made preparations for a major assault on the nearby Special Forces camp at Lang Vei. Twenty-four members of the American Special Forces team and their Montagnard troops, as well as some Laotian soldiers who had fled their…

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Second Battle of Khe Sanh Part I

The 1st Battalion, 26th Marines, wasted no time in starting its new mission at Khe Sanh: saturation patrols in the TAOR within range of the supporting artillery. Battalion commander Lt. Col. Donald D. Newton began Operation Crockett on 14 May 1967. He stationed one rifle company each on Hills 861…

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Armor Employment by VC/NVA Forces I

Prior to 1968 there were few, if any, in Vietnam that even imagined the VC/NVA forces in South Vietnam were equipped with tanks. A few in the intelligence system exercising hindsight, made “I knew it all the time” claims but these statements deserved and received little attention. Events of 24…

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Armor Employment by VC/NVA Forces II

North Vietnamese Army tanks The NVA formed its first armoured unit in October 1959 with T-34-85 medium tanks delivered by the Soviet Union. The T-34-85 first appeared in service in 1944 and was the Red Army’s answer to the German Panther medium tank and the Tiger E heavy tank. Weighing…

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Italian MTM Boats of 10th MAS

The Tenth Light Flotilla Between the wars, the Italian Navy continued to display interest in small‑boat warfare and, in 1936, formed the unit which was to become famous as the Decima Flottiglia MAS (10th Light Flotilla) specifically for operations of this type. At about the same time, General Duke Amadeo of Aosta…

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Rome Military mid-fourth century to the mid-third century BC

Rome’s relationship with her closest neighbours in Central Italy and the city gradually emerged as the most dominant military and political power in the region. This was a long process, which had as much to do with Rome’s internal political and civic development as it did with Rome’s external military…

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AK-47: History of creation

In December 2006, the American television channel Military Channel unveiled the rating of the best models of small arms created in the last hundred years. American and British experts meticulously considered almost everything that they fought on the planet Earth from the Russian-Japanese war to the “Desert Storm.” Evaluated by…