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Estate sale book has Vietnam Flag
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06-10-2017 05:28 PM
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Does anyone think this might be real?
Would it be a Commie flag?
A good Guess is welcomed
Charlie-Painter777
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Yes, I think it IS original. Exactly what it's celebrating is another thing...
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Add this to your meatball flag in the other post and may I suggest you find a casino ASAP to see if you have any good luck remaining.
Nice find.
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Of things NVA and VC, I wonder where our old pals in D-445 are now?
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If this Wiki article is factual, they were a darn tough bunch. - Bob
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D445_Battalion
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VERY "commie" flag, complete with "socialist realism" artwork.
Loosely translated (and I am very rusty with what is left of my very rudimentary Vietnamese):
Top Line:
People's Liberation Front of South Viet Nam.
Bottom lines:
(Struggling now)
Something about:
Civil "stream" to arm Pleiku "district" k9 with knowledge volunteers
(Something, something)
1969
It appears to be a "unit flag / "colour", belonging to an "armed propaganda team" from the "National Liberation Front" / Viet Cong.
What is its provenance?
"Southern" Vietnamese has slightly different "tones" in its words and a lot of different names for objects, when compared to "Hanoi" Vietnamese.
Any translation advances?
Last edited by Bruce_in_Oz; 06-12-2017 at 10:22 PM.
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Peter asked:
"Of things NVA and VC, I wonder where our old pals in D-445 are now?"
Mostly dead or very retired.
A lot of VC were involved in the famous "Tet" (Lunar New Year) offensive and were very heavily "thinned" by US air power when they were used to perform a series of infantry assaults into the major cities in the south. Being caught, en masse, in the open by marauding "Spookys" is a definite health hazard.
Those that survived, probably tried to go back to as normal a life as they could find, post war. This was apparently "interesting", as the place was suddenly awash with "victorious" regular northern troops, who rapidly went into garrison mode.
I know of at least one retired VC "tax collector" who ended up working in a brewery in Dong Nai province, not far from the old Bien Hoa airfield.
And only five years later, they mounted up again and rolled across the Parrots Beak, to deliver a response to the Khmer Rouge.
Long Tan veteran, Terry Burstall did a book based on his combat experience with D-Coy, 6RAR. (“The Soldier’s Story)” University of Queensland Press, ISBN 0 7022 2002 7).
There is also a “follow-up” volume called “A Soldier Returns”.
See [URL="https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/data/UQ_190986/DA557_8_L66_B875_1990.pdf?Expires=1497405664&Signa ture=Ho98XluNmd4tKKV2rX3Eji6idNzdh4WPZdB-uW8qZH8PnjA87S3Kzc8AmLuUuH0JUgyLMpnXkmByFZxQhbTc0t jV5~itmYJEiDmbN5elxSBOvBihLXGoNw7faHv3hCen1BzkUQgB HnubcEBYNhGHoix8auOXkJE7sWYfcOe53OFuAq7Dz8Xwg4~xBa nVT1Wz3Q5hhV3HZfGwhPznyjzjQTyvo5nPazV7nfT78VncRWTE S~BO3gQQtM3ap1l3nyLbCWjK3dHRKffpeXb8-6wi37TiQ7pRuRrpErQFI2DyyqMQ86umhCiRdyF5-B2L4Id456hCjFB1r3vL3Sl4xtDXAA__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJKNBJ4MJBJNC6NLQ."]
One of the photo plates in the book contains a 1987 photo of D445’s Colonel Bao.
Another from the same trip, shows Burstall in conference with Colonel Nguyen Thang Hong (Hai), one-time commander of the VC forces at Long Tan.
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I've got the Long tan book and the Battle for Coral in storage for a later read what's the jist of Terry Burnstalls "A Soldier Returns" if its a good read will acquire a copy for a latter read.
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The long and poorly posted link I presented previously before should lead to an on-line copy of "A Soldier Returns".
I have not yet found my "tree-ware" copy; probably still in the box I stored it in during renovations here.
Another interesting read is by Frank Palmos; "Ridding the Devils". (1990). It covers his "adventures" in Indonesia during some wild times under Sukharno, and moves to Viet Nam; including being in a VC vehicle ambush, and being the only survivor.
Link here
(with any luck...
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