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North Vietnamese Soldiers
long_tom
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Posted: Friday, June 27, 2014 - 05:11 AM UTC
The popular image of the Vietnam War is of US soldiers fighting guerillas in black pajamas. But they certainly must have fought regular North Vietnamese soldiers as well?
Tojo72
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Posted: Friday, June 27, 2014 - 05:40 AM UTC
Yes,they did fight the NVA also.Ia Drang Valley for one
retiredyank
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Posted: Friday, June 27, 2014 - 05:52 AM UTC
Too many times has the NVA been overlooked, due to Hollywood. Guerillas certainly played their part, but they were not North Vietnam's primary soldier. Khaki uniforms and internal order made up the NVA. There are tons of photos. As Tojo72 said, la Drang Valley. This was well represented in "We Were Soldiers". I'm glad to see Hollywood taking notes from history.
long_tom
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Posted: Friday, June 27, 2014 - 08:03 AM UTC
The movie I was thinking of was "Little Dieter Needs To Fly", in which the protagonist is captured and imprisoned by people dressed a la Viet Cong=which I didn't think was actually that way.
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Too many times has the NVA been overlooked, due to Hollywood. Guerillas certainly played their part, but they were not North Vietnam's primary soldier. Khaki uniforms and internal order made up the NVA. There are tons of photos. As Tojo72 said, la Drang Valley. This was well represented in "We Were Soldiers". I'm glad to see Hollywood taking notes from history.
Posted: Friday, June 27, 2014 - 09:17 AM UTC
It would also depend on the stage of the war. The Tet Offensive decimated the Viet Cong (Turns out it was intended to by Hanoi due to political skullduggery).
long_tom
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Posted: Friday, June 27, 2014 - 01:35 PM UTC
One other question-every depiction of regular NVA soldier's uniforms depict them as pale green. That so? I read that different nations have their own definitions for the word "khaki". In the USA, it means "light tan".
jphillips
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Posted: Friday, June 27, 2014 - 02:54 PM UTC
The popular image of the Vietnam War is of US soldiers fighting guerillas in black pajamas. But they certainly must have fought regular North Vietnamese soldiers as well?
Warriors cast a few PAVN figs - infantrymen and vehicle crewmen - but good luck finding any.
The Tet Offensive decimated the Viet Cong (Turns out it was intended to by Hanoi due to political skullduggery).
I've heard that too. It makes a lot of sense.
Warriors cast a few PAVN figs - infantrymen and vehicle crewmen - but good luck finding any.
The Tet Offensive decimated the Viet Cong (Turns out it was intended to by Hanoi due to political skullduggery).
I've heard that too. It makes a lot of sense.
long_tom
Illinois, United States
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Posted: Friday, June 27, 2014 - 03:56 PM UTC
There's Dragon's NVA Sapper team and also the counter-SOG figures from BRAVO-6. A bigger variety would be useful though.