Tanks in the Easter Offensive 1972
Tanks in the Easter Offensive 1972 This study explains how the armies of North and South Vietnam, newly equipped with the most modern Soviet and US tanks and weaponry, fought the decisive armored…
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Tanks in the Easter Offensive 1972
This study explains how the armies of North and South Vietnam, newly equipped with the most modern Soviet and US tanks and weaponry, fought the decisive armored battles of the Easter Offensive.Wearied by years of fighting against Viet Cong guerillas and North Vietnamese regulars, the United States had almost completely withdrawn its forces from Vietnam by early 1972. "Vietnamization" program, North Vietnam launched a major fourteen-division attack in March 1972 against the South that became known as the "Easter Offensive." Hanoi's assault was spearheaded by 1,200 tanks and was counteracted on the opposite side by Saigon's newly equipped armored force using U.S. Determined to halt the expansion and improvement of South Vietnamese forces under the U.S.
The result was ferocious fighting between major Cold War-era U.S. medium tanks. and Soviet tanks and mechanized equipment,