MEDAL - CU CHI TUNNELS - SAIGON - VC F-100 COMMANDOS - NLF - Vietnam War - 1963

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Viet Cong Medal
NVA - VC - NLF - Known as the Saigon Medal, was presented to member of the Saigon Militia and F-100 Commandos, post war - 1976 and 1977.
Excellent Piece
NLF, NVA, VC  - Viet Cong / National Liberation Front
Viet Cong, VC, NLF
Jungle and Tunnel Fighters -
Viet Cong Recon Commando's - Cu Chi / Saigon
By late 1971, with the removal of most of the US Military from the War the Phoenix Program continued to damage the Viet Cong. The F-100 Commando's, a mostly youth group operating out of both Saigon and Cu Chi / An Tinh. The F-100 Commandos were repsonsible for sabotage in the Saigon area including the bombing of bars frequented by US Military, the shooting of US Military Personnel in their hotle rooms, assassination of both US and ARVN Personnel whilst in the streets of Saigon and guerrila actions in the area strecting from Saigon to the Cambodian border including actions against Tan Son Nhut.
In October 1971, a Viet Cong defector (Nguyen Van Tung) directed a US Special Forces and ARVN operation to a major tunnel base at An Tinh, advising the Special Forces Operatives that a VC Unit was headquartered there. The destination turned out to be the headquarters of the F-100 Commandos. Led by Van Tung through the tunnel traps and mines the F-100 Commandos were decimated with all found killed or captured.
On clearance of the area scrapbooks of press clippings marked, 'F-100 Victories' detailed assassinations and bombings throughout Saigon. A more important find however was a notebook listing close to 80 agents based in Saigon. The list contained their real names, cover names, meeting times and message drop information, as well as their addresses. Of the eighty, some twenty were working with the ARVN in Saigon.
News of the find reached the F-100 Agents in Saigon however not before more than 70 of the agents were captured. Most were executed.
At the end of the Vietnam War, some three and a half years later, Nguyen Thi Kieu, in 1975 a 23 year old girl was honored as a 'Revolutionary Hero of the Fight for Liberation'. Thi Kieu had, at the age of 19 at the time of the F-100 Raid been the leader of the F-100 Commando's and had been the leader since she was 17.
She had escaped the Saigon Round-Up of October 1971. The F-100 Commandos however ceased to be a fighting force with no major acts of sabotage in Saigon for the remainder of the war.
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