RARE VC COMBAT MEDAL - NLF - Liberation Armed Forces Hero - Vietnam War - Z.284 for Sale

RARE VC COMBAT MEDAL - NLF - Liberation Armed Forces Hero - Vietnam War - Z.284 For Sale

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RARE VC COMBAT MEDAL - NLF - Liberation Armed Forces Hero - Vietnam War - Z.284:
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Very Rare - Original Medal - National Liberation Front - Viet Cong

Liberation Armed Force Hero

This is the National Liberation Fronts equivalent of the People's Armed Forces Decoration. It was established on September 3rd 1963. It is extremely rare. It was awarded prior to 1976 in one class only and worn above all other NLF awards. It is reasonable to infer that recipients had previously earned the Liberation Exploit Order.

(Orders, Decoration and Badges of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam - Edward J. Emering)

Vietnam War Original - Extra Rare medal.

NLF - National Liberation Front

The Việt Cộng, also known as the National Liberation Front (NLF), was a communist political organization with its own army – the People's Liberation Armed Forces of South Vietnam (PLAF) – in South Vietnam and Cambodia that fought the United States and South Vietnamese governments, eventually emerging on the winning side

It had both guerrilla and regular army units, as well as a network of cadres who organized peasants in the territory it controlled. Many soldiers were recruited in South Vietnam, but others were attached to the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN), the regular North Vietnamese army.

During the war, communists and anti-war activists insisted the Việt Cộng was an insurgency indigenous to the South, while the U.S. and South Vietnamese governments portrayed the group as a tool of Hanoi. Although the terminology distinguishes northerners from the southerners, communist forces were under a single command structure set up in 1958.

North Vietnam established the National Liberation Front on December 20, 1960, to grow insurgency in the South. Many of the Việt Cộng's core members were volunteer "regroupees", southern Việt Minh who had resettled in the North after the Geneva Accord (1954).

Hanoi gave the regroupees military training and sent them back to the South along the Ho Chi Minh trail in the early 1960s.

The NLF called for southern Vietnamese to "overthrow the camouflaged colonial regime of the American imperialists" and to make "efforts toward the peaceful unification".

The People's Liberation Armed Forces of South Vietnam (PLAF)'s best-known action was the Tet Offensive, a massive assault on more than 100 South Vietnamese urban centers in 1968, including an attack on the U.S. embassy in Saigon.

The offensive riveted the attention of the world's media for weeks, but also overextended the Việt Cộng. Later communist offensives were conducted predominantly by the North Vietnamese. The organization was dissolved in 1976 when North and South Vietnam were officially unified under a communist government.