Murderers! - U.S. Air Force - Vietnam War

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Publication Date: 1966

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Size: B1 (cca. 100 x 70 cm). Murderers U S Air Force Vietnam War is a 1966 vintage Hungarian anti war propaganda poster The Vietnam War also known by other names was a conflict in Vietnam Laos and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975 It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was a major conflict of the Cold War While the war was officially fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam the north was supported by the Soviet Union China and other communist states while the south was supported by the United States and other anti communist allies making the war a proxy war between the United States and the Soviet Union It lasted almost 20 years with direct U S military involvement ending in 1973 The conflict also spilled over into neighboring states exacerbating the Laotian Civil War and the Cambodian Civil War which ended with all three countries officially becoming communist states by 1976 After the fall of French Indochina with the 1954 Geneva Conference on 21 July the country gained independence from France but was divided into two parts the Viet Minh took control of North Vietnam while the U S assumed financial and military support for South Vietnam The Viet Cong VC a South Vietnamese common front under the direction of the north initiated a guerrilla war in the south The People s Army of Vietnam PAVN also known as the North Vietnamese Army NVA engaged in more conventional warfare with U S and Army of the Republic of Vietnam ARVN forces North Vietnam invaded Laos in 1958 establishing the Ho Chi Minh Trail to supply and reinforce the VC By 1963 the north had sent 40 000 soldiers to fight in the south U S involvement increased under President John F Kennedy from just under a thousand military advisors in 1959 to 23 000 by 1964 Following the Gulf of Tonkin incident in August 1964 the U S Congress passed a resolution that gave President Lyndon B Johnson broad authority to increase U S military presence in Vietnam without a formal declaration of war Johnson ordered the deployment of combat units for the first time and dramatically increased the number of American troops to 184 000 U S and South Vietnamese forces relied on air superiority and overwhelming firepower to conduct search and destroy operations involving ground forces artillery and airstrikes The U S also conducted a large scale strategic bombing campaign against North Vietnam and continued significantly building up its forces despite little progress being made In 1968 North Vietnamese forces launched the Tet Offensive though it was a tactical defeat for them it was strategic victory as it caused U S domestic support for the war to fade By the end of the year the VC held little territory and were sidelined by the PAVN In 1969 North Vietnam declared the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam Operations crossed national borders and the U S bombed North Vietnamese supply routes in Laos and Cambodia The 1970 deposing of the Cambodian monarch Norodom Sihanouk resulted in a PAVN invasion of the country at the request of the Khmer Rouge and then a U S ARVN counter invasion escalating the Cambodian Civil War After the election of Richard Nixon in 1969 a policy of Vietnamization began which saw the conflict fought by an expanded ARVN while U S forces withdrew in the face of increasing domestic opposition U S ground forces had largely withdrawn by early 1972 and their operations were limited to air support artillery support advisors and materiel shipments The Paris Peace Accords of January 1973 saw all U S forces withdrawn accords were broken almost immediately and fighting continued for two more years Phnom Penh fell to the Khmer Rouge on 17 April 1975 while the 1975 spring offensive saw the Fall of Saigon to the PAVN on 30 April marking the end of the war North and South Vietnam were reunified on 2 July the following year The war exacted an enormous human cost estimates of the number of Vietnamese soldiers and civi. Seller Inventory # 6753

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Title: Murderers! - U.S. Air Force - Vietnam War

Publication Date: 1966

Binding: Paper, offset lithography.