Senin, 13 November 2017

Taking on Tanks at Kontum

Only a desperately thin line of defense against a tank-led NVA assault stood in the way of a likely defeat of South Vietnam in May 1972. In the spring of 1972, a dozen North Vietnamese Army divisions with hundreds of tanks and the latest Soviet and Chinese artillery and anti-aircraft guns invaded South Vietnam in …

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