Photos ARVN Images

100100603_3025693090861089_908920160503463936_n.jpg
100374768_539501073382163_4254412363660263424_n.jpg
100611825_2917832025110545_6313426784943603712_o.jpg
100745015_10220794741890171_6922714354542444544_o.jpg
 
A South Vietnamese Marine carries the dead body of a comrade killed on Route 1, about seven miles south of Quang Tri Sunday, April 30, 1972. Marines were fighting to reopen the road in order to break the North Vietnamese siege of the provincial capital. (AP Photo/Koichiro Morita)
ow4fgnrbs9981.jpg
 
M41 Walker Bulldog light tanks traverse through the dirt roads in South Vietnam, passing by a little girl on a bike, 1972
xas4beecj7v81.jpg
 
Krek, Cambodia. 5 October 1971. ARVN troops carry a wounded comrade off the battlefield under fire.
66xp45yvv8v81.jpg
 
South Vietnamese Marines take overwatch positions on the Phan Thanh Gian bridge during Operation Quyet Thang in an effort to reestablish control over the areas immediately around Saigon following the aftermath of Phase I Tet Offensive; South Vietnam, March or April of 1968
FXarM_tWQAIEB8e?format=jpg&name=medium.jpg
 
ARVN soldiers capture a communist Viet Cong guerrilla hiding in high swamp grass during an operation 15 miles south of Da Nang in Quang Nam province in Vietnam on March 28, 1965. Five Viet Cong guerrillas were reported KIA and 30 taken prisoner in the operation
FXHvaR-WQAMmFSF?format=jpg&name=medium.jpg
 
M113 APC of the 7th Armoured Cavalry Squadron, a unit of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) which operated around the city of Hue in the northern part of South Vietnam
wt6vfrz2asf91.jpg
8s4k7043asf91.jpg
 
Sergent-chef Tran Dinh Vy wearing the Croix de Guerre TOE avec palme and the Médaille d' Outre Mer, Indochina in 1950. He was the assistant to the famous Adjudant-chef Roger Vandenberghe, commander of the legendary Commando 24 that operated in Tonkin, known as the Tigres Noirs.
efpvn9kuxql91.jpg

The Tigres Noirs (Black Tigers) belonged to the North Vietnam Commandos. Initially 8 commandos (unit), the number expanded to 45 commandos organized in North Vietnam to wage war using guerrilla methods. Like the other commandos, Commando 24 was a formation specialized in small unit tactics and pseudo-operations, dressed in the typical black pajamas worn by the Viet Minh (VM) and their tropical helmets, with the aim of operating deep behind the areas dominated by the VM.

On one occasion, Vandenbergh posed as a French prisoner captured by his commandos posing as Viet Minh and the unit attacked and destroyed a VM command post (CP) after moving miles through communist-controlled territory. Another famous action was the infiltration in Ninh-Binh to rescue the body of Lieutenant Bernard de Lattre, son of General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, the commander-in-chief of all French forces in Indochina.

Vandenberghe was killed in 1952, assassinated by Sous-lieutenant Nguien Tinh Khoï; the former commander of the assault unit of the 36th Regiment of the 308th Brigade of the VM, captured at the Battle of the Day River in 1951 and made an auxiliary to the Commando 24.

Sergent-chef Tran Dinh Vy undertook the paratrooper commando course in Pau, France, in 1954. He later became an officer in the South Vietnamese Army (ARVN) and after the fall of Saigon in 1975, he managed to escape to France, enlisting in the Foreign Legion and ending his service with the rank of colonel. He remained the memory keeper of Commando 24.

His decorations included:

  • the Légion d'honneur (Legion of Honor),
  • the Médaille militaire,
  • 20 French, American and Vietnamese citations.
 
U.S. Army Special Forces soldier on patrol with an ARVN unit in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. October 1969
737vqjtixsn91.jpg
 
Elephants on patrol in the Central Highlands, South Vietnam, 1962. Elephants were used by both sides in the war as transportation of men and matériel.
e5v2kjg6lin91.png
 

Similar threads

Back
Top