The attack on USNS Card was a Viet Cong (VC) operation during the Vietnam War. It took place in Saigon Port in the early hours of 2 May 1964, and was...
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Presidential Unit Citation, Card received three battle stars for service in World War II. The ship was reactivated on 16 May 1958, as USNS Card and operated with...
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Fall of Saigon (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
on 2 July 1976. The People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and the Viet Cong (VC), under the command of General Văn Tiến Dũng, began their final attack on Saigon...
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commando base, the raid on Pleiku airport and the American barracks Holloway, the Brinks Hotel bombing, the Attack on USNS Card. The feats of North Vietnamese...
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1963 Attack on USNS Card - May 2, 1964 Battle of An Lão - December 7–9, 1964 Battle of Binh Gia - December 28, 1964 - January 1 1965 Attack on Camp Holloway...
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would also aid in the investigation of the successful VC underwater attack on USNS Card, suggesting that the explosives and expertise used may have been...
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city's zoo. The name is also found in company names, book titles and even on airport departure boards: the IATA code for Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport...
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The Tet offensive attack on the United States embassy took place on the early morning of 31 January 1968, when a 19-man Viet Cong (VC) sapper team attempted...
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Forest SS Green Port USNS Greenville Victory SS Pioneer Contender SS Pioneer Commander USNS Sgt. Truman Kimbro USNS Sgt. Andrew Miller On 28 April at 18:06...
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created. BASIC is eventually included on many computers and even some games consoles. May 2 Vietnam War: Attack on USNS Card – An explosion caused by Viet Cong...
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plant mines, then detonate them. This was seen in instances like the Attack on USNS Card and the USS Westchester County, the latter causing the United States...
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California to Saigon, South Vietnam which was hijacked over the South China Sea on 2 July 1972, ostensibly as an act of protest concerning United States involvement...
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Battle of Saigon (1955) (category Articles missing coordinates without coordinates on Wikidata)
Diệm's removal of its police chief. 200 Bình Xuyên troops launched an attack on VNA headquarters. The clashes were inconclusive, with the VNA suffering...
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A Viet Cong (VC) attack on Tan Son Nhut Air Base occurred during the early hours of 4 December 1966, during the Vietnam War. Tan Son Nhut Air Base was...
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on 24 April 2014. Dao 1985 "Vietnam Notebook: Early History, Nam Viet to Gia Long". Parallel Narratives. 29 March 2011. Archived from the original on...
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1965 Saigon bombing (category Attacks on coffeehouses and cafés in Asia)
On 25 June 1965, during the Vietnam War, the Viet Cong exploded two bombs in Saigon killing 31 people. The first bomb detonated at 8:15 p.m. (local time)...
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Siege of Saigon (category Attacks on military installations in Vietnam)
gateway to Cochinchina. In 1858, Admiral Charles Rigault de Genouilly attacked Vietnam under the orders of Napoleon III following the failed mission of...
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Province of Gia Định (category Infobox mapframe without OSM relation ID on Wikidata)
Định and it was renamed to Sài Gòn-Gia Định. After the capture of Saigon on 30 April 1975, the province of Gia Định (initially without the estuary) and...
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1960 South Vietnamese coup attempt (category Attacks on airbases in Vietnam)
Diệm and tell him to surrender or face a howitzer attack on the palace. Durbrow refused and no attack took place. He consequently learned that the aide...
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Xá Lợi Pagoda raids (category Attacks on buildings and structures in Vietnam)
a series of synchronized attacks on various Buddhist pagodas in the major cities of South Vietnam shortly after midnight on 21 August 1963. The raids...
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1964 Brinks Hotel bombing (category Attacks on buildings and structures in 1964)
Brinks Hotel had swelled on Christmas Eve because they were using the building to coordinate their celebrations, and that the attack would therefore cause...
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The attack on Tan Son Nhut Air Base, headquarters of the Republic of Vietnam Air Force (RVNAF) and the United States Air Force (USAF) 7th Air Force, occurred...
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USNS Kingsport (T-AG-164) was built as SS Kingsport Victory, a United States Maritime Commission VC2-S-AP3 (Victory) type cargo ship. During the closing...
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1782 Saigon massacre (category Articles missing coordinates without coordinates on Wikidata)
the Tây Sơn's enemy. In 1782 the Tây Sơn led by Nguyễn Nhạc launched an attack on Saigon and succeeded in capturing the city. However, one of Nhạc's key...
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Battle of Kỳ Hòa (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
Palanca y Guttierez were both wounded in the attack. A second assault was made on 25 February. The attack was made at dawn, by two columns of infantry...
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bloody gang battle ensued between the two gangs when Đại and his followers attacked the Great World quarters of Chợ Lớn with knives, swords, and bayonets....
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The attack on the Joint General Staff (JGS) Compound, the headquarters of the Republic of Vietnam Military Forces, occurred during the early hours of...
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Operation Fairfax (category Articles missing coordinates without coordinates on Wikidata)
the end of the operation the VC were able to launch their Tet Offensive attacks on Saigon. This article incorporates public domain material from websites...
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Bombing of Tan Son Nhut Air Base (category Attacks on military installations in 1975)
up at Bien Hoa Air Base, each armed with four 250-pound bombs, for an attack on PAVN positions in Bình Thuận Province. Before the second aircraft took...
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Ba Son Shipyard, and then cross the Saigon River on an elevated track, passing through District 2 on the way to Suối Tiên Park and the terminus in Long...
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