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Original U.S. Vietnam War Captured Vietcong Flag with War Trophy Registration Paperwork - 16th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron - 16” x 34”

Item Description

Original Item. One-of-a-Kind. This is one of the greatest Vietcong flags we have ever offered, as it comes with a War Trophy Registration form naming it to Major Peter King Dubay of the 16th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron. This cotton flag measures 34 inches wide by 16 inches tall and is a three-piece construction with silk. A very nicely constructed flag with period stitching, this is not one of the cheap tourist or reproduction type flags that flood the market today. There are some stains and small tears and holes, evidence of a nice battle worn flag. The flag has some folds but not much damage.

The War Trophy Registration Form provides a lot of information about Dubay. He served in Vietnam from June 18th, 1968 until June 3rd, 1969, service number Fv3080544, with the 16th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron, APO 96307. He lived at 2109 Bircher Way, Charmicle, California. The war trophies he brought back included 2 Vietcong flags, of which this is one. The form is dated May 16th, 1969.

There is a small amount of writing on the flag, however it’s a bit too worn to read, besides the location Dong Nai. Dong Nai was once a site of tragedy in the Vietnam War, whose legacy persists in the form of dioxin contamination from defoliants used by the U.S. military. Ongoing decontamination work has been led by the U.S. international development agency USAID.

This is a fantastic captured Vietcong flag with solid provenance, ready for further research and display.

The Viet Cong also known as the National Liberation Front, was a mass political organization in South Vietnam and Cambodia with its own army – the People's Liberation Armed Forces of South Vietnam (PLAF) – that fought against the United States and South Vietnamese governments during the Vietnam War, eventually emerging on the winning side. It had both guerrilla and regular army units, as well as a network of cadres who organized peasants in the territory it controlled.

Many soldiers were recruited in South Vietnam, but others were attached to the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN), the regular North Vietnamese army. During the war, communists and anti-war activists insisted the Việt Cộng was an insurgency indigenous to the South, while the U.S. and South Vietnamese governments portrayed the group as a tool of Hanoi. Although the terminology distinguishes northerners from the southerners, communist forces were under a single command structure set up in 1958.

North Vietnam established the National Liberation Front on December 20, 1960, to foment insurgency in the South. Many of the Việt Cộng's core members were volunteer "regroupees", southern Việt Minh who had resettled in the North after the Geneva Accord (1954). Hanoi gave the regroupees military training and sent them back to the South along the Ho Chi Minh trail in the early 1960s. The NLF called for southern Vietnamese to "overthrow the camouflaged colonial regime of the American imperialists" and to make "efforts toward the peaceful unification".

The PLAF's best-known action was the Tet Offensive, a gigantic assault on more than 100 South Vietnamese urban centers in 1968, including an attack on the U.S. embassy in Saigon. The offensive riveted the attention of the world's media for weeks, but also overextended the Việt Cộng. Later communist offensives were conducted predominantly by the North Vietnamese. The organization was dissolved in 1976 when North and South Vietnam were officially unified under a communist government.

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