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ARVN troops armed with M2 Carbines detain North Vietnamese POWs.

 

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ARVN 155mm howitzer firing during the Battle of Tháng - Xuan Loc.

 

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ARVN M113 wrecked at the battle of Binh Gia

 

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Battle of An Loc, 1972. destroyed NVA tanks

 

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North Vietnamese tank knocked out by South Vietnamese airborne on the last hours of Vietnam War in the morning of April 30th 1975

 

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Battle of An Loc, 1972. destroyed NVA tanks

 

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A member of the South Vietnamese Popular Force carries a crate of ammunition, circa 1967. These local militia fighters defended South Vietnamese villages against attacks by the Viet Cong

 

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A-37 Dragonfly snuggles close to the wing of the lead aircraft on the return from a bombing run. March 31, 1971.

 

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A South Vietnamese policeman directing an ARVN M24 Chaffee

 

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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)

 

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M48A3 at Khiem Hanh, South Vietnam, March 24th, 1975.

 

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50th Anniversary of the failed NVA Easter Offensive

 

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M41 Walker Bulldog light tanks traverse through the dirt roads in South Vietnam, passing by a little girl on a bike, 1972

 

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Krek, Cambodia. 5 October 1971. ARVN troops carry a wounded comrade off the battlefield under fire.

 

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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

 

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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

 

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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

 

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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.

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.