Who were the Viet Cong in the northern Mekong Delta, where ARVN 7th Division operated?
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January 4, 2023Who were the Viet Cong in the northern Mekong Delta, where ARVN 7th Division operated?
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This was the period of those American advisors we have been talking about.
And also about the American command refusing to see anything but progress and roses in Vietnam. General Paul Harkins said that we must: “…accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative.” [ p 81 The Army and Vietnam]
President Kennedy was concerned about news of Ap Bac and so the JCS sent a special mission the [Wheeler Mission] to South Vietnam to ask “are we winning?”
See if you can find out about John Paul Vann’s relationship with Colonel Cao, the commander of ARVN 7th Division. There are sources in our reserves about this and from last week, A Bright Shining Lie.
About Colonel Cao as a commander?
Who were the Viet Cong in the northern Mekong Delta, where ARVN 7th Division operated?
BTW, where did the term “Viet Cong” come from?
What happened at Ap Bac?
Battlefield:Vietnam | Guerrilla Tactics (pbs.org)
