The Tragedy of the Vietnam War A South Vietnamese Officer’s Analysis (van Nguyen Duong) (z-lib.org)

List of Names and Terms

A Fire-Base, or Alpha outpost (Kontum Province)
Abandonment Syndrome
Abrams, General Creighton William (U.S. Army)
Abzug, Bella
Agnew, Vice President Spiro 179
Air offense strategy
Airborne Brigade (Forerunner of Airborne Division)
Airborne Division (ARVN)
Ai-Tu Base-Camp
Alabama
Algeria
Allied forces
A-Luoi area
Ambassador Hotel (Los Angeles)
America
American Advisory Corps or Group

American command in Southeast Asia
American containment policy
American leaders
American Legion magazine
Andersen Air Force Base
An-Khe
An-Lao Mountains
An-Loc
Anti-war movement
An-Xuyen Province
Ap-Bac (My Tho Province)
Arab League
Arab oil embargo
Armed Forces Council (South Vietnam)
Armed Forces of Vietnam (coup d’état on November 1, 1963)
Armitage, Lieutenant Commander Richard Lee (U.S. Navy)
Army of the Republic of Vietnam
Army of Vietnam (1949–1954; French Union)
ARVN
ARVN I Corps and Region

ARVN II Corps and Region
ARVN III Corps and Region
ARVN IV Corps and Region
ARVN Ranger units
ARVN Special Forces
A-Shau Valley
Asia
Asia-Pacific
Asian allies
Asian nations
Associated States (of Indochina)
Auburn University
Auriol, President Vincent (France)
Australia

Ba Dinh Square
Ba River
Bac Kan
Bach-Dang Quay (Saigon)
Baclieu, or Bac Lieu Province

Ban Doc Falls
Bahnar (ethnic minority)
Ban-Me-Thuot
Bao Dai, Emperor and Chief of State of Vietnam
Bay Hien Area
Be River
Beijing
Belgium
Ben Giang (Quang Nam Province)
Ben Hai River
Ben Het Area
Ben Than
Ben Tre Province
Berkeley University
Bidault, Foreign Minister Georges (France)
Bien Hoa Air-Base
Bien Hoa Province
Binh Dinh Province
Binh Duong Province
Binh Long Province

Binh Thuan Province
Binh Tuy Province
Binh Xuyen Forces
Bo Duc District
Bo Xuan Luat (Nationalist revolutionary)
Bonnet, Ambassador Henry
Borneo
Boum Oum, Prince (Laos)
Breznew, Leonid
Britain
British-French Agreements (1945)
British Gurkha Division
British Royal Forces
Broughton, Colonel Jacksel (U.S. Air Force)
Brown, General George (U.S. Army)
Brush, Peter W.
Budapest
Buddha
Buddhism
Buddhist crisis

Buddhist leaders
Buddhist Struggle Movements
Bui Diem, Ambassador
Bui Dinh, Colonel (ARVN)
Bui Duc Diem, Colonel (ARVN)
Bui Phung, Brigadier General (NVA)
Bui Quang Doai (Nhân văn and Giai phấm Movement)
Bulge Area (Cambodia)
Bundy, McGeorge
Bundy, William P.
Bunker, Ambassador Ellworth
Buon Enao
Buon Enao Project
Burma
Buu Loc, Prince (Vietnam)

C Fire-Base, or Charlie Outpost (Kontum Province)
USS C. Turner Joy (destroyer)
Calhamer, Allan B.
Camau, or Ca Mau City

Cambodia
Cambodia 1st Military Region
Cam Lo Area
Cam Lo Fire-Base
Cam Rahn Bay
Camp David (at Tan Son Nhut Air-Base, Saigon)
Can Le Bridge (An Loc)
Can Le Fire-Base
Can Le River
Can Tho Province
Canada
Canadian International Control Mission (ICC)
Canal #16 (Camau)
Cao Bang Province and Garrison
Cao Ðai Sect (South Vietnam)
Cao The Dung
Cao van Vien, General (RVNAF)
Cấp Tiến Party
Capital Military Special Zone (Biệt-Khu Thủ-đô)
Capitol Hill

Carpentier, General Marcell (French forces)
Carrol Fire-Base (Quang Tri Province)
Carrot and stick policy
Case, U.S. Senator Clifford (Case-Church Amendment)
Case-Church Amendment
Cat Lai
Catroux, General George (French forces)
Cease-Fire
Cease-fire period (1973–1975)
Central Executive Committee (Uỷ-ban Hānh-pháp Trung-ủỏng)
Central Highlands
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Central Office of South Vietnam (COSVN)
Central Propaganda and Training Directorate (Cu.c Tuyên Huấn Trung
ương; North Vietnam)
Central Radio Broadcasting Station (Saigon)
Central Treaty Organization (CENTO)
Central Vietnam
Chan Tin (Catholic priest)
Charton, Lieutenant Colonel (French forces)
Chau Tam Luan, Buddhist priest

Che Lan Vien (poet, North Vietnam)
Chen Geng, General (PLA; Red China)
Chennault, Major General Claire L. (U.S. Air Force)
Chhlong River (Cambodia)
Chiang Kei-shek, Marshal (Chinese Nationalist Forces)
Chicago
USS Chicago (cruiser)
China
China Sea
China theater
Chinese communist expansion
Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
Chinese land reform
Chinese Military Advisory Group (CMAG)
Chinese Nationalist Forces
Chinese Political Advisory Group (CPAG)
Cho Lon (Saigon)
Cho Moi (North Vietnam)
Chon Thanh District
Chou En-lai, Prime Minister (PRC)

Chu Lai Base-Camp
Chu Ngoc (writer, Nhân văn and Giai phấm Movement)
Chua Chan Hill (Xuân Lộc)
Chung Tan Cang, Vice Admiral (VNN)
Chup Rubber Plantation (Cambodia)
Church, U.S. Senator Frank
Churchill, Prime Minister Winston (Great Britain)
Citadel (Hue)
Civil Guards (Dân Vệ)
Civil Operation and Rural Development Support (CORDS)
Civilian Irregular Defense Group (CIDG)
Clark Air Force Base (Philippines)
Clifford, Clark
Clinton, President Bill
Co May (Vung Tau)
Coalition government
Cochinchina
Colby, Director William (CIA)
Cold War
Coleman, William (CIA Saigon Station)

Collins, General Joseph Lawton (U.S. Army)
Combat forces, American
Combat troops, American
Combat unit(s), American
Commando Hunt (U.S. air campaign)
Commando Training Center (Nhatrang)
Communism
Communist China
Communist empire
Communist North Vietnam
Communist Party
Communist regime
Communist Tây Nguyên Campaign (March 1975)
Communists of North Vietnam
Con Thien Base-Camp (DMZ)
Confucianism
Cong Ly Avenue (Saigon)
Cong Ly Bridge (Saigon)
Conien, Lieutenant Colonel “Lulu” Lucien (U.S. Army, Saigon Mission)
Connection Policy (land reform)

Constituent Assembly
Convoy of Blood and Tears
USS Coral Sea (aircraft carrier)
Council of Generals (South Vietnam)
Counter-Insurgency Council (White House)
Counter-insurgency strategy
Counter-insurgency theory
Cronkite, Walter
Cu Chi District
Cu Lao Re
Cua Viet (Quang Tri Province)
Cultural and Economic Agreements (1954)
Cung Son

D Fire-Base, or Delta Outpost (Kontum Province)
D War-Zone (NVA and VC sanctuary)
Dai Loe District
Ð’i Việt Party
Dak-pek (Kontum Province)
Dak-to (Kontum Province)

Dalat, or Da Lat City
Daley, Mayor Richard (Chicago)
Dallas, Texas
Daly, Ed
Dam Doi (Camau)
Dambe Rubber Plantation (Cambodia)
Danang, or Da Nang City
Dang Dinh Hung (writer, Nhân văn and Giai phấm Movement)
Dang van Quang, Lieutenant General (ARVN)
Dang Xiao-ping (Chinese communist leader)
Dao Duy Anh (Nhân văn and Giai phấm Movement)
Dap Duon, Colonel (FANK)
Darlac Province
Ðất Mệi (New Land) magazine
Dau Giay Crossroads (Xuân Lộc)
Dau Tieng District
Davidson, Lieutenant General Philip B. (U.S. Army)
Day River (North Vietnam)
Dawson, A.K.
De Castries, Brigadier General Christian (French forces)

Decoux, Admiral Jean (French Navy)
Defense Attaché Office (DAD)
Defense Assistance Vietnam Program
Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA; U.S. Defense Department)
Defensive strategy
Defensive war
De Gaulle, President Charles (France)
De Lattre de Tassigny, General Jean (French forces)
De Lattre Line
Dellinger, David
Dellinger, John
Delta Plan
Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)
Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRVN or DRV)
Deterrence strategy
Dewey, Major Peter A. (U.S. Army, OSS)
Dien Bien Phu area
Dien Bien Phu Battle
Dinh Duc Thien, Major General (NVA)
Directorate (South Vietnam’s top organization, 1967)

Do Cao Tri, Lieutenant General (ARVN Airborne)
Do Kiem, Captain (VNN)
Doi Gio (Windy Hill, An Lộc)
Doi Ma (Phantom Hill, Xuân Lộc)
Domino theory and strategy
Don Luan (Phuoc Long Province)
Dong Cam (Tuy Hoa Province)
Ðông Du (Oriental Studies Abroad)
Dong Ha (Quang Tri Province)
Dong Ha Bridge
Dong Hoi (North Vietnam)
Dong Khe (North Vietnam)
Dong Long Airfield (An Loc)
Dong Long Hill (An Loc)
Dong Si Nguyen, Colonel (NVA)
Dong van Khuyen, Lieutenant General (ARVN)
Donovan, Colonel James A. (U.S. Marine Corps)
Donovan, General William J. (U.S. Army, OSS)
Duc Co
Duc Duc District

Duc Hoa District
Duc Lap District
Duc My
Dulles, John F.
Duong Hieu Nghia, Colonel (ARVN Armor)
Duong Minh Chau (NVA and VC Secret Zone)
Duong Phuc (journalist and war reporter, Song Than newspaper, Saigon)
Duong van Duc, Lieutenant General (ARVN)
Duong van Minh, General (President, South Vietnam)
Dutch East Indies (Indonesia)
Dutch government (in exile)
Duy Tan Hospital (Saigon)

The East (Asian countries)
Eastern Communist Bloc
Eastern Europe
Eastern European communist countries
Eastern front
Eastern Truong Son Route or Corridor 613 (Ðưðng Trường Sơn Ðông)
Eastertide Offensive, or Communist Summer Campaign (1972)

École Militaire Inter-Armes de Dalat (forerunner of the Vietnamese
National Military Academy)
École des Officiers de Réserve de Thu Duc et de Nam Dinh (Thủ-Ðức and
Nam Ðịnh Reserve Officer Schools)
Eden, Sir Anthony
Ehrlichman, John
Eisenhower, President Dwight D.
Eisenhower administration
Eleven-Point Program
Ellsberg, Daniel (The Pentagon Papers)
Ely, General Paul (French forces)
Elysée Agreements (March 8, 1949)
End Sweep Operation (U.S., 1973)
Ending the War and Restoring Peace proposal
Engelmann, Larry
Engels, Frederic
USS Enterprise (carrier )
Europe
European Defense Community (EDC)
Evacuation Control Center (DAO, Saigon)
L’Express (French newspaper) 233

External operations (Hành Quân ngo’i-biên)

Fall, Bernard B.
Family syndrome
Fan Muong, Brigadier General (FANK)
Far East
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Federal Security Services
Felt, Admiral Harry D. (U.S. Navy)
Fenwich, Milicent
Fisher, Prof. Roger (Harvard University)
Fish Hook
Flynt, John, Jr.
Fontainebleau, France
Footboy Operations (U.S. special operations in North Vietnam)
Forces Armées Nationales Khmères (FANK)
Ford, President Gerald R.
Ford Administration
Foreign policy, U.S.:
Formosa

Forrestal, Michael
Four-Party Joint Military Teams (FPJMT)
France
Fraser, Donald
Free France (of General De Gaulle)
French Deuxième Bureau
French Expeditionary Corps
French forces
French-Indochina
French National Assembly
French Union
Friendship and Assistance Treaty (North Vietnam–Laos, 1975)
Fulbright, U.S. Senator William
Fuller Fire-Base (Quang Tri Province)

Gallup poll
Gaulois (Gauls)
General Offensive campaign (Việt Minh, November 1951)
General Offensive (TCK) and General Uprising (TND)
General Political Warfare Department (RVNAF; Tổng Cục Chiến-Tranh
Chính-Tri., QLVNCH)

Geneva
Geneva Accords, or Geneva Treaty:
Germany
Gia Dinh Province
Gia Long Street (Saigon)
Giai Phầm (Nhân văn and Giai phấm Movement literacy pieces selection)
Gio Linh District (Quang Tri Province)
God
Gorbachev, President Mikhail (Russia)
Go-Vap
Government, U.S.
Government of Vietnam (GVN)
Gracy, General Douglas (British Royal Forces)
Gradualism
Grayson, Colonel Eugene (U.S. Army)
Great Britain
Great Society (Johnson Administration)
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere (Japan)
Green Berets Corps (U.S.)
Groupement de Commandos Mixtes Aréoportés (CGMA; Composite
Airborne Commandos Group)

Guam
Guernica (Spanish town)
Guernica Vulture Operation
Gulf of Tonkin
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Gulf War

H Fire-Base, or Hotel Outpost (Kontum Province)
Ha Long Bay
Ha van Lau, Ambassador
Habib, Philip
Hai Ba Trung Street (Saigon)
Haig, General Elexander (U.S. Army)
Haiphong, or Hai Phong Harbor
Halifax, Lord (ambassador)
Ham Tan City
Hamilton, Meritt Jane
Hamlet Evaluation System
Hannah, Norman B.
Hanoi

Hampden Sydney College
Harkins, General Paul (U.S. Army)
Harriman, Averell
Harriman Line
Hartman, Robert
Hau Bon City
Hau Nghia Province
Heng Sarim (Khmer Rouge leader)
Hewitt, Robert L.
Hickory Operation (MACV)
Hiep Khanh
Higgins, Marguerite
Hill 169 (An Loc)
Hill 1062 (Thuong Duc)
Hilsman, Roger
Hilton Hotel (Chicago)
Hiroshima (Japan)
Ho Chi Minh
Ho Chi Minh Campaign
Ho Chi Minh Trail

Ho Dynasty’s Citadel
Ho Hoc lam, Nationalist revolutionary
Ho Tan Quyen, Captain (VNN)
Ho van Kiet, Major (ARVN)
Hoa Binh Province
Hoa Hao Sect (South Vietnam)
Hoai An District (Binh Dinh Province)
Hoai Thanh (writer, North Vietnam)
Hoang Cam, Major General (NVA)
Hoang Cam (poet, Nhân văn and Giai phấm Movement)
Hoang Dan, Brigadier General (NVA)
Hoang Minh Thao, Lieutenant General (NVA)
Hoang Ngoc Lung, Colonel (ARVN)
Hoang Phu Ngoc Tuong, pro-communist activist
Hoang Tich Linh (writer, Nhân văn and Giai phấm Movement)
Hoang van Chi
Hoang Xuan Lam, Lieutenant General (ARVN)
Hoi An City
Hong Cuong (writer, North Vietnam)
Hong Duc (publishing house, Hanoi)

Hong Kong
Hong Ngu
Honolulu
Honolulu Advertiser
Honorable withdrawal policy
Horseshoe Hill (Xuan Loc)
Hre (ethnic minority)
Hue City
Hull, U.S. Secretary of State Cordell
Humphrey, U.S. Vice President Hubert
Hundred Flowers Blossom Campaign (Hanoi)
Hundred Flowers Campaign (Red China)
Hung Loc Hamlet (Xuân Lộc)
Hung Nghia Hamlet (Xuân Lộc)
Hungary
Hun-Sen, Prime Minister (Cambodia)
Hunt, Howard (FBI)
Huu Loan (poet, Nhân văn and Giai phấm Movement)
Huy Can (poet, North Vietnam)
Huy Thong (professor, poet; North Vietnam)

Huynh Lien (Buddhist nun)
Huynh Phu So (founder of Hòa Hẚo Sect)
Huynh Tan Nam (pro-communist activist)
Huynh Tan Phat, Prime Minister (PRGSV)
Huynh van Cao, Lieutenant General (senator, South Vietnam)
Huynh van Tam, Lieutenant Colonel (ARVN)
Huynh van Ton, Colonel (ARVN)
Huynh van Ut, Captain (ARVN)

Igloo-White air campaign (U.S. air-raids on Ho Chi Minh Trail)
India
Indochina
Indochina Federation
Indochina War
Indochinese Communist Party (Ðẚng Cộng-Sẚn Ðông Dng)
Indochinese Peninsula
Indonesia
Intelligence School (Fort Cây Mai, Cholon)
Intelligence Special Unit
International Commission

International Communist Aggression and Expansion
International Control Commission (ICM)
International Monetary Fund
Iraqi government
Isolation Policy (Land Reform, North Vietnam, 1955–1956)
Italy

Kennedy, U.S. Senator Edward
Kennedy, President John F.
Kennedy Administration
Kennedy, U.S. Senator Robert F.
Kennen, George F. (father of Deterrence Concept)
Kham Duc
Khanh Duong District
Khanh Hoa Province
Khe sanh
Khmère Rouge
Khrushchev, Nikita (USSR)
Killed in action (KIA)
Kim Nhi, Sergeant (ARVN)

Kim-Son Restaurant (Saigon)
Kissinger, Henry
Komer, Robert
Kompong-Cham Province (Cambodia)
Kompong-Trach Province (Cambodia)
Kong Le, Major General (Laotian Neutral Forces)
Kontum, or Kon-Tum Province
Korea
Korean Armistice Agreements (1953)
Korean War
Kratié Province (Cambodia)
Kremlin
Krosen, Major General Frederic (U.S. Army)
Krott, Rob
Krulak, Lieutenant General (U.S. Marine Corps)
Kulikov, General Viktor (Soviet Army)
Kunming (China)
Kwangxi Province (China)
Kwanqtung Province (China)

Lac Long Base-Camp (Tay Ninh Province)
Lac Viet
Lacouture, Jean (French historian)
Lai Chau
Lai Khe Base-Camp
Laird, Melvin
Lake, Anthony
Lam Dong Province
Lam Quang Thi, Lieutenant General (ARVN)
Lam Quang Tho, Major General (ARVN)
Lam Son 72 Campaign (ARVN in I Corps and Region)
Lam Son 719 Operation (ARVN in Laos, January 1971)
Lam van Phat, Major General (ARVN)
Land Reform (North Vietnam, 1955–1956)
Land Reform Central Committee
Lang Son Province and Garrison
Lang Wei
Lansdale, Major General Edward (U.S. Army, CIA)
Lao-Kay, or Lao Cai (North Vietnam)
Laos

Laos Neutrality Treaty (1962)
Laotian Royal Army
Le Bac Bridge
Le Dat (poet, Nhân văn and Giai phấm Movement)
Le Duan, First Secretary (VWP)
Le Duc Anh, Lieutenant General (NVA)
Le Duc Dat, Colonel (ARVN)
Le Duc Tho (communist leader)
Le Loi Avenue (Saigon)
Le Minh Dao, Brigadier General (ARVN)
Le Minh Ngoc, Lieutenant Colonel (ARVN) Airborne
Le Ngoc Hien, Brigadier General (NVA)
Le Nguyen Khang, Lieutenant General (RVNAF Marine Corps)
Le Nguyen Vy, Brigadier General (ARVN)
Le Quang Hoa, Brigadier General (NVA)
Le Quang Luong, Brigadier General (ARVN)
Le Quang Trieu, Major (ARVN)
Le Quang Tung, Colonel (ARVN)
Le Trong Tan, Lieutenant General (NVA)
Le van Chanh, Captain (ARVN)

Le van Hung, Brigadier General (ARVN)
Le van Kim, Lieutenant General (ARVN)
Le van Ngoc, Colonel (ARVN Airborne)
Le van Vien, or “Bẚy Viển” (Bình Xuyên Forces)
Le Xuan Hieu, Colonel (ARVN)
Lea Operation (French Forces, in North Vietnam, 1947)
Leclerc, General Jean Phillipe (French forces)
Leepson, Marc
LeGro, Colonel (U.S. Army)
Lehmann, Wolf
LeMay, General Curtis (U.S. Air Force)
Lenin, Vladimir
Lepage, Colonel (French forces)
Letourneau, High Commissioner Jean (French in Indochina)
Li Tianyou, General (PIA)
Limited War
Lincoln Memorial
Linebacker I and II air campaigns
Lipmann, Walter
Liu Shaoqi (Chinese communist leader)

Liwchou (China)
Loc Ninh
Loc Tan Crossroads
Lodge, Ambassador Henry Cabot
Lon Nol, General (FANK)
London
Long An Province
USS Long Beach (cruiser)
Long Binh (Bien Hoa Province)
Long Khanh Province
Long Mountains Range
Long Nguyen (NVA and VC secret zone)
Long Thanh
Lord, Winston
Lorraine Operation (French forces in North Vietnam)
Lownds, Colonel David (U.S. Marine Corps)
Lu Han, General (Chinese Nationalist Forces)
Luang Prabang (Laos)
Lunch Bunch
Lunch Bunch War

Luo Guipo (political adviser, CPAG)
Ly Cong Uan (first emperor of Ly Dynasty)
Ly Duc Quan, Colonel (ARVN)
Ly Qui Chung (pro-communist activist)
Ly Tong Ba, Brigadier General (ARVN Armor)

Ma Tuyen
Maclear, Michael
USS Maddox (destroyer)
Maddox Crisis
Madison, Colonel John (U.S. Army)
Mai Huu Xuan, Lieutenant General (ARVN)
Mai Loc Base-Camp
Malaysia
Manchuria
Mang-Yang
Manila
Mansfield, U.S. Senator Mike
Mao Khe (North Vietnam)
Mao Tse-tung

Maoism
Marbot, Eric Won
Marine Division (RVNAF)
Market economy
Marshall Plan
Martin, General (French forces)
Martin, Ambassador Graham
Marx, Karl
Marxism
Marxism-Leninism
Mayer, Prime Minister Rene (France)
Mayer, General Samuel (U.S. Army)
McArthur, General Douglas (U.S. Army)
McCarthy, U.S. Senator Eugene
McCloskey, Peter (U.S. Congress)
McCone, John (CIA director)
McGovern, U.S. Senator George
McMaster, H.R.
McNamara, Robert
McNamara Line, or “Dye Maker”

Media (U.S.)
Mekong Delta
Mekong River
Mendenhall, Joseph
Mendes-France, Prime Minister Pierre (France)
Menu Operations (U.S. secret air campaign in Cambodia: Breakfast,
Dessert, Dinner, Lunch, Snack and Supper)
Merillon, Ambassador J.M.
Merritt, Hamilton Jane
Mexico
Middle East
Midriff Air Operation
Mike Force
Military Advisory Training Assistance (MATA)
Military Assistance Advisory Group–Indochina (MAAGI)
Military Assistance Command–Vietnam (MACV)
Military Assistance Command–Vietnam/Studies and Observation Group
(MACV/SOG)
Military Equipment Delivery Team–Cambodia (MEDTC)
Military Intelligence Center (MIC)
Military Intelligence Detachments (MIDs)

Militia (Dân Vệ)
Miller, Colonel William H. (U.S. Army)
Mimot rubber plantation (Cambodia)
Missing in action (MIA)
Mission 5 Team, or M-5 (French in Kuruning, China)
Mò Tôm
Momeyer, General William W. (U.S. Air Force)
Moorer, Admiral Thomas A. (U.S. Navy)
Moscow
Moscow Conference
Mountain regiments
Mountbatten, Admiral (Sir) Louis (British Royal Forces)
Moynihan, U.S. Senator Patrick Daniel
Mu Gia Pass
Murray, Major General John (U.S. Army)
My Chanh River
My Lai
My Tho, or Mytho Province

Nagasaki (Japan)

Nam Can (Camau)
Nam Dan District
Nam Dinh Province
Nam-Ký Quốc (Nam-Ky State)
Nam Quan frontier pass
National Assembly (North Vietnam)
National Constitutional Assembly (South Vietnam)
National Council of Reconciliation and Concord
National High Council (South Vietnam)
National Leadership Committee (Uỷ-ban Lãnh-đạo Quốc-gia Gia South
Vietnam)
National Military Academy
National Police
National United Front (Mặt Trận Liên Việt, North Vietnam)
Nationalist Youth Association (Liên-Ðoàn Thanh Niên Quốc-Gia)
Navarre, General Henry Eugene (French forces)
Negroponte, John
Netherlands
Neutralist government solution
New economic site(s)
New Orleans

New York
New York Times
New Zealand
Nghe An Province (North Vietnam)
Nghia Lo (North Vietnam)
Ngo Ba Thanh (pro-communist activist)
Ngo Du, Lieutenant General (ARVN)
Ngo Dinh Can
Ngo Dinh Diem, President (South Vietnam)
Ngo Dinh Diem:
Ngo Dinh Kha
Ngo Dinh Khoi
Ngo Dinh Nhu
Ngo Dinh Nhu, Mrs.
Ngo Dinh Thuc, Rev. (Catholic bishop)
Ngo Ky Dung, Colonel (ARVN)
Ngo Quang Truong, Lieutenant General (ARVN Airborne)
Nguyen Ba Manh Hung, Lieutenant Colonel (ARVN Airborne)
Nguyen Bao Kiem
Nguyen Bao Tri, Lieutenant General (ARVN)

Nguyen Binh, Major General (Viet Minh)
Nguyen Cao, Brigadier General (ARVN)
Nguyen Cao Ky
Nguyen Chanh Thi, Lieutenant General (ARVN Airborne)
Nguyen Chi Hieu, Colonel (ARVN)
Nguyen Chi Thanh, General (NVA)
Nguyen Co Thach, Foreign Minister (North Vietnam)
Nguyen Cong Hoan (writer, North Vietnam)
Nguyen Cong Vinh, Colonel (ARVN)
Nguyen Dinh Bao, Lieutenant Colonel (ARVN)
Nguyen Dinh Thi (writer, North Vietnam)
Nguyen Duc Duong, Lieutenant Colonel (ARVN Armor)
Nguyen Duc Thang, Lieutenant General (ARVN Artillery)
Nguyen Duy Tai
Nguyen Hai Than (nationalist revolutionary)
Nguyen Hoa, Major General (NVA)
Nguyen Hong Quan, First Lieutenant (NVA)
Nguyen Hue Avenue (Saigon)
Nguyen Huu An, Major General (NVA)
Nguyen Huu Co, Lieutenant General (ARVN)

Nguyen Huu Dang (writer, political statesman, Nhân văn and Giai phấm
Movement)
Nguyen Huu Hanh, Brigadier General (ARVN)
Nguyen Huu Tho, President (PRGSV)
Nguyen Huy Tuong (writer, North Vietnam)
Nguyen Khanh, General (ARVN)
Nguyen Khoa Nam, Major General (ARVN Airborne)
Nguyen Kien Giang
Nguyen Manh Cam, Foreign Minister (SRVN)
Nguyen Nang Bao, Colonel (RVNAF Marine)
Nguyen Ngoc Loan, Major General (VNAF)
Nguyen Ngoc Tho, Vice President (South Vietnam)
Nguyen Sang (artist, Nhân văn and Giai phấm Movement)
Nguyen Tan Thanh, Colonel (ARVN)
Nguyen Thai Hoc (founder and leader of the Vietnamese Nationalist Party
[Việt Nam Quốc Dân Ðẚng])
Nguyen Thai Hoc Hamlet (Long Khanh Province)
Nguyen Thanh Truong, First Lieutenant (ARVN)
Nguyen Thu Luong, Colonel (ARVN Airborne)
Nguyen Tien (journalist, Sóng Thần newspaper)
Nguyen Ton Hoan (Ð’i Việt Party)

Nguyen Tuan (writer, North Vietnam)
Nguyen van Biet, Colonel (ARVN Ranger)
Nguyen van Chuan, Brigadier General (ARVN)
Nguyen van Dinh, Lieutenant Colonel (ARVN Airborne)
Nguyen van Hao, Prof. (pro-communist activist)
Nguyen van Hieu, Minister (PRGSV)
Nguyen van Hinh, Lieutenant General (French Air Force)
Nguyen van Hoa, Lieutenant Colonel (ARVN)
Nguyen van Linh (Communist leader)
Nguyen van Loc, Prime Minister (South Vietnam)
Nguyen van Mau (mayor, Danang City)
Nguyen van Minh, Lieutenant General (ARVN)
Nguyen van Nhon, Lieutenant Colonel (ARVN)
Nguyen van Thieu, President (South Vietnam)
Nguyen van Toan, Lieutenant General (ARVN)
Nguyen van Ty (artist, Nhân văn and Giai phấm Movement)
Nguyen van Vinh, Major General (NVA)
Nguyen van Vy, Lieutenant General (ARVN)
Nguyen van Xuan, Major General (French forces)
Nguyen Viet Can, Lieutenant Colonel (ARVN)

Nguyen Viet Thanh, Lieutenant General (ARVN)
Nguyen Vinh Nghi, Lieutenant General (ARVN)
Nguyen Xuan Mai, Colonel (ARVN)
Nha Trang, or Nhatrang City
Nhân văn magazine
Nhân văn and Giai phấm Movement
Nhu Mai (writer, Nhân văn and Giai phấm Movement)
Ninh Binh Province
Ninh Thuan Province
Nishihara, General (Japanese forces)
Nixon, President Richard M.
Nixon Administration
Nobel Peace Prize (1973)
Nolting, Ambassador Frederic
Nomura, Ambassador Kichisaburo
Nong Son District (Quang Nam Province)
North Africa
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
North Korea
North Korean Army

North Vietnam

North Vietnamese Army

Norwood, David A. (Boun Enao Project)

NVA

NVA B-3 Front (Tây Nguyên: Kontum, Pleiku and Darlac provinces)

NVA B-5 Front (Tri.-Thiên: Northern Quang Tri and Southern Route #9)

NVA large units reserved in North Vietnam:

NVA large units activated in ARVN I Corps and Region (after Red
Summer 1972):

NVA large units activated in ARVN II Corps and Region (after Red
Summer 1972):

NVA large units activated in ARVN III Corps and Region (after Red
Summer 1972):

NVA I Corps (in South Vietnam during the Ho Chi Minh Final Campaign:
45th Artillery Brigade; 140th Signal Regiment; 202nd Special Weapons
Tank Brigade; 229th Engineering Brigade; 308th, 312th, 320B Infantry
Divisions; and 367th Anti-Aircraft Brigade):

NVA II Corps (164th Artillery Brigade; 203rd Tank Brigade; 219th
Engineering Brigade; 304th, 324B, 325th Infantry Divisions; 327th Anti-
Aircraft Brigade; and 463rd Signal Brigade)

NVA III Corps (7th Engineering Regiment; 10th Infantry Division; 29th
Signal Regiment; 203rd Tank Regiment; 234th Anti-Aircraft Regiment;
316th and 320th Infantry Divisions; and 593rd Anti-Aircraft Regiment)

NVA IV Corps (6th and 7th Infantry Divisions; 24th and 55th Artillery
Regiments; 69th Signal Regiment; 71st Anti-Aircraft Regiment; 341st
Infantry Division; and 429th Sapper Regiment)

NVA 232nd Tactical Wing (3rd, 5th, 9th Infantry Divisions and 27th
Sapper Division)
NVA 559th Special Group (on Ho Chi Minh Trail)

O’Daniel, General John (U.S. Army)
Odessa (USSR)
OSS
Okinawa
Old Citadel (Quang Tri Province)
Ong Doc River
Open-Arms Amnesty (Chính Sách Chiêu Hô`i)
Operation Frequent Wing
Operation Plan 34A, or OPLAN 34A (U.S.)
Operation Plan 37-64, or OPLAN 37-64 (U.S.)
Operational Command Headquarters (ARVN; Bộ Tư-Lệnh Hành-Quân)
Oriental front
OSS (Office of Strategic Services)
OSS Team 202, or Deer Team
OSS Team 404
Oval Office (White House)

Pacific Ocean
Pacific Stars and Stripes
Pac-Po
Pagoda Restaurant (Saigon)
Pakistan
Palmer, General Bruce (U.S. Army)
Parallels:
Paris
Paris Accords, or Paris Peace Treaty (January 1973)
Paris Peace Talks (secret)
Parrot’s Beak
Partie Communiste du Campuchia (Cambodian Communist Party)
Paschall, Rod (editor, Vietnam magazine)
Pasquier, Sylviane, French journalist
Pathet-Lao
Patti, Major Archimedes (U.S. Army, OSS)
Peace Corps units
Peace with Honor policy
Pearl Harbor
Pearson, Prime Minister Lester (Canada)

Peasants Association (North Vietnam)
Pedro Base-Camp (Quang Tri Province)
Pegasus Operation (MACV, April 1968)
Peking
Peng Dehuai, Marshal (PLA)
Pentagon
Pentagon Papers
People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN)
People’s Liberation Army (PLA; Red China)
People’s Self-Defense Force (PSDF, Nhân-Dân Ţ.-Vệ)
People’s Republic of China
Perfume River (Sông Hương; Huê)
Personality Cult Disease (Tệ Sùng-bái Cánhân; North Vietnam)
Pétain, Marshal Phillipe (French Army)
Peterson, Ambassador Douglas “Pet”
Pham Chau Tai, Major (ARVN Airborne)
Pham Duy Tat, Brigadier General (ARVN Ranger)
Pham Hung (communist leader)
Pham Ngoc Sang, Brigadier General (VNAF)
Pham Ngoc Thao, Colonel (ARVN)

Pham Quynh (scholar, minister)
Pham van Bach (communist leader)
Pham van Dong, Prime Minister (North Vietnam)
Pham van Lieu, Colonel (ARVN Ranger)
Pham van Phu, Major General (ARVN Airborne)
Pham van Phuc, Colonel (ARVN Ranger)
Phan Boi Chau (nationalist revolutionary)
Phan Hien (communist cadre)
Phan Huy Quat, Prime Minister (South Vietnam)
Phan Khac Suu (chief of state, South Vietnam)
Phan Khoi (journalist and writer, Nhân văn and Giai phấm Movement)
Phan Nhat Nam, Captain (ARVN Airborne)
Phan Rang
Phan Rang Airfield
Phan Tan My, Major (ARVN)
Phan Thanh Gian College (Can Tho)
Phan Thao (journalist, editor)
Phan van Huan, Colonel (ARVN Special Forces Airborne)
Phan van Khai, Deputy Prime Minister (SRVN)
Phan Xuan Nhuan, Brigadier General (ARVN)

Phat Diem (North Vietnam)
Philippines
Phnom-Penh (Cambodia)
Phoenix Program (Chương Trình Phương Hoàng)
Phoumi Nosavan, General (Laotian Royal Army)
Phu Bon Province
Phu Cat Airfield
Phu Doan (North Vietnam)
Phu Ly (North Vietnam)
Phu Tho (Saigon)
Phu Tuc District (Binh Dinh Province)
Phu Yen City
Phung Cung (writer, Nhân văn and Giai phấm Movement)
Phung Duc Airfield (Ban-Me-Thuot)
Phung Hoan (writer, Nhân văn and Giai phấm Movement)
Phung van Cung, Minister (PRGSV)
Phuoc An District
Phuoc Binh City
Phuoc Long Province
Phuoc Tuy Province

Pisor, War Reporter Robert
Plain of Jars (Laos)
Pleiku, or Plei-Ku Province
Pleime
Plowman operations (U.S. Maritime Operations in North Vietnam)
Pocket Money Operation (U.S., 1972)
Podgony, Nicolai (USSR)
Poko River
Poland
Political psychological shortcoming
Polgar, Thomas (CIA)
Pol Pot (Khmer Rouge leader)
Popular Forces (PF)
Potsdam Conference and Agreements
Presidential Palace (Dinh Ðộc Lập, Saigon)
Prisoners of war, American (POWs)
Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam (PRGSV or
PRG)
Psychological Warfare Division (Cục Tâm lï Chiến)

Qiang Zhai, Prof. (author)

Quan Loi (Binh Long)
Quang Duc Province
Quang Dung (poet, Nhân văn and Giai phấm Movement)
Quang Nam Province
Quang Ngai Province
Quang Nguyen
Quang Tin Province
Quang Tri Province
Quang Tri’s Old Citadel
Quangsi, or Guangxi Province (China)
Qui Nhon City

Radford, Admiral Arthur B. (U.S. Navy)
Radhe (ethnic minority)
Railroad Kunming–Hanoi
Railroad Nanning–Hanoi
Rangoon
Rectification of Errors Campaign (North Vietnam, 1956–1958)
Red Capitalists
Red River Delta

Red Summer (1972)
Reeves, Richard
Regional Forces (RF)
Renewed Cease-Fire Agreements (Laos)
Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam)
Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces (RVNAF)
Republic State of Vietnam (French Union)
Resistance (Trường-ký Kháng-chiến; Việt Minh 1946–1954)
Reske, Charles F.
Revolutionary War
Richardson, Elliot (CIA)
Richer, Ambassador Philippe
Ridway, General Mathew B. (U.S. Army)
Ring of steel (Quang Tri Province)
Rocket Ridge Range (Central Highlands)
Rockpile Fire-Base
Rogers, William
Rolling Thunder Air Campaign
Roosevelt, President Franklin D.
Roosevelt Administration