![]() They were just people who joined the National Liberation Front because they weren’t happy with the foreign influence on their government and the presence of foreign soldiers. was supporting), in fact some members of the Viet Cong were not themselves necessarily communists. ![]() and the Southern Vietnamese government the U.S. Even though the Viet Cong, or “National Liberation Front for South Vietnam”, were in some ways an arm of the People’s Army of Vietnam in the North, fighting the same cause (against the U.S. ![]() It’s also interesting to note here that “Vietnamese Communists” is possibly something of misnomer, at least partially. This, in turn, was shortened to just Việt Cộng, with the first documented instances of such appearing in various Saigon newspapers in 1956.įrom here, “Viet Cong” was commonly further shortened to “VC”, which in the NATO phonetic alphabet is pronounced “Victor-Charlie”, which gave rise to the further shortened, “Charlie” designation. It comes from “Việt Nam Cộng-sản”, which just means “Vietnamese Communists”. ![]() ![]() First, because I suspect there are at least a few people curious and it pertains to how the name “Charlie” ultimately came about, let’s discuss how the term “Viet Cong” came about at all. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |