News: We are happy to announce that we have our new "link mod" working—our programmer out-did himself on making it!! The program allows YOU to add your link yourself, unlike the old "add-me form" we had. Please, go here and add your unit's link, if we don't have it. For that matter, you can update links too. We still have many of the old links up, as it is a process to do a lot of them. However, we will be working to update links as fast as possible-- soon, ALL the unit links and historical links will be done this way!!
The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, the Vietnam Conflict, and, in Vietnam, the American War, occurred from March 1959 to April 30, 1975. The war was fought between the communist Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) and its communist allies and the US-supported Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam). It concluded with the withdrawal of the United States from active combat, the dissolution of South Vietnam, and the failure of United States foreign policy in Vietnam.
On April 30, 1975, the capital of South Vietnam, Saigon, fell to the communist forces of North Vietnam, effectively ending the war. Over 1.4 million military personnel were killed in the war (of which 6 percent were members of the United States armed forces), while estimates of civilian fatalities range up to 2 million.
Delta Troop is a unit made up of men who have dedicated themselves to preserving the memory of the men who fought in Vietnam. We specialize in living history for Veterans reunions, museums and historical sites. We are a highly authentic unit. Uncle Sam needs you sign up today!
Our unit formed in late 1999 and is mainly based in the Mid-Atlantic region of the east coast. We have members in Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina. We attend Vietnam battle reenactments and living history displays all over the eastern seaboard. We as a unit primarily attend the Nam' 68 event held at the Newville, Pennsylvania site and also the U.S. 199th Light Infantry Brigade hosted events at the Louisa, Virginia site.
Mission Statement: To honor and preserve the memory and sacrifices of the gallant men that served in the 199th Light Infantry Brigade in Vietnam and Cambodia from 1966 to 1970 and establish a lasting legacy for them by participating in living history displays, reunions, parades, patriotic American functions and battle reenactments.
Militaria Magazine -- One of the very best publications World-WIDE, Militaria specializes in... Militaria! Every magazine is chock full of colour photos of uniforms and kit along with with excellent high quality articles explaining everything. Militaria covers everything to do with the military and militaria during the 20th Century. NO reenactor should be without Militaria -- Get a subscription today. * Militaria IS a French language magazine, however, I have never had any trouble with it -- especially with Alta-Vista's translation website handy at all times ;-)
The Asst. Webmaster for this
Time/Area is now: Ryan Rentschler
Max seems to have went "in country" for awhile
A time of war, a time of peace. From the Korean "conflict" to Indochina, to the Vietnam War, this was a time of turmoil and pain. Vietnam reenacting is especially becoming popular today and units are springing up all over. If you're interested in the Vietnam war, this time area is especially great.
This section of reenactor.Net is intended to help support Korean - Vietnam wars living history groups worldwide, regardless of nationality, era, or location of the unit. Pages of this section cover the following periods:
Also, our plan is to try and add pages to cover the rest of the latter half of the 20th Century... if you have a link for this, please let me know!
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reenactor.Net's Online Living History Forums
I've wanted to do Forums for awhile now, but it was either too much coding, or I would have to use someone else's system (i.e. ezboard or something -- meaning we had no control over how it was run) or just whatever . I am happy to say I've found something that set up well and is expandable. There is very little there yet, but there will be soon. And, if you're signed up for one time period, you're a member inthem all. This works well if you do more than one time period.
The Film Bunker -- A reenactor owned store offering hard to find movies dealing with the great conflicts of
the 20th Century. WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam and Cold War era
Militaria Magazine -- One of the very best publications World-WIDE, Militaria specializes in... Militaria! Every magazine is chock full of colour photos of uniforms and kit along with with excellent high quality articles explaining everything. Militaria covers everything to do with the military and militaria during the 20th Century. NO reenactor should be without Militaria -- Get a subscription today.
* Militaria IS a French language magazine, however, I have never had any trouble with it -- especially with Alta-Vista's translation website handy at all times ;-)
Our goal is to be more than simply "The bad guys". We intend to run the 338th as much like a Chinese Volunteer unit as we can. In reality this is much more like the way a reenacting unit runs than the way a US Army unit functions. The 338th was part of the 113th Division, 38th Army, and had fought in the Chinese civil war. The regiment was stationed in Shenyang province next to Korea, and crossed the Yalu into Korea on Oct. 22, 1950. A major part of Chinese policy was the fiction that all Chinese troops had volunteered for service in Korea (conveniently maintaining their prior formations), and as such the unit would have changed a few uniform items and removed all insignia from their uniforms.
The First Indochina War (also known as the French Indochina War, the The Anti-French War, the Franco-Vietnamese War, the Franco-Vietminh War, the Indochina War and the Dirty War in France and in contemporary Vietnam, as the French War) was fought in French Indochina from December 19, 1946 until August 1, 1954 between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps, led by France and supported by Bảo Đại's Vietnamese National Army against the Việt Minh, led by Hồ Chí Minh and Vơ Nguyên Giáp. Most of the fighting took place in Tonkin in Northern Vietnam, although the conflict engulfed the entire country and also extended into the neighboring French Indochina protectorates of Laos and Cambodia.
Origins of the French Indochina War
Following the reoccupation of Indochina by the French following the end of World War II, the area having fallen to the Japanese, the Viet Minh launched a rebellion against the French authority governing the colonies of French Indochina. The first few years of the war involved a low-level rural insurgency against French authority. However, after the Chinese communists reached the Northern border of Vietnam in 1949, the conflict became a conventional war between two armies equipped with modern weapons supplied by the United States and the Soviet Union.
French Union forces included colonial troops from the whole former empire (Moroccan, Algerian, Tunisian, African, Laotian, Cambodian, Vietnamese and Vietnamese ethnic minorities) and professional troops (European of the French Foreign Legion). The use of metropolitan recruits was forbidden by the governments to prevent the war from becoming even more unpopular at home. It was called the "dirty war" (la sale guerre) by the French communists and leftist intellectuals (including Sartre) during the Henri Martin affair in 1950.
Strategy and Loss
While the strategy of pushing the Viet Minh to attack a well defended base in a remote part of the country at the end of their logistical trail was validated at the Battle of Na San, the lack of building materials (especially concrete), tanks (because of lack of road access and difficulty in the jungle terrain), and air cover precluded an effective defense. The French were defeated with significant losses among their most mobile troops, particularly through ambush.
After the Indochina War
After the war, the Geneva Conference on July 21, 1954, made a provisional division of Vietnam at the 17th parallel, with control of the north given to the Viet Minh as the Democratic Republic of Vietnam under Ho Chi Minh, and the south becoming the State of Vietnam under Emperor Bảo Đại. A year later, Bảo Đại would be deposed by his prime minister, Ngô Đ́nh Diệm, creating the Republic of Vietnam. Diem's refusal to enter into negotiations with North Vietnam about holding nationwide elections in 1956, as had been stipulated by the Geneva Conference, would eventually lead to war breaking out again in South Vietnam in 1959 - the Second Indochina War.
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