Original Items: Only One Available. This is a Genuine USGI bring Back flag set from the Vietnam War. Per the information we received with this grouping, the two flags, medals, and belt buckle were brought home by Helicopter Pilot Robert Dunbar. Unfortunately there is not much more information on him, but it would be well worth further research.

The included unit flag measures 30 inches wide by 21 inches tall and is of multi-piece construction, and has pocket on hoist edge for pole. The central 5 pointed star is completely embroidered, as is the unit marking 324 in the upper right, and the XUNG PHONG statement in the lower left. The statement roughly translates to "first team" or most elite unit." Unit 324 flags are very rare, and this example even has a THÀNH PHỐ / HỒ CHÍ MINH "Ho Chi Minh City medal attached to it. These medals were awarded for Honorable Action Under Fire.

The second flag is of the same design, but not marked to a specific unit. It is of cotton construction, and measures 29 inches wide by 24 inches tall. Like the other flag, it is of multi piece construction, with an edge pocket for a pole, however it features no embroidering.  Attached to this flag is a Viet Cong QUYẾT THẮNG medal, for exceptional combat bravery. The two stars on the ribbon indicate that it was awarded twice to the soldier who received it.

Also in this set is a nice NVA belt buckle, as well as a CHIẾN SỸ VẺ VANG medal.

Both of these flags are very nicely constructed, with period stitching. These are not some of the cheap tourist or reproduction type flags that flood the market today. Ready to add to your collection 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.