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I'm looking for the best picture or any informations about the KAF's U-6 (Beaver). It seem that the KAF had 3 aircrafts.
But in 1971, during the viet cong's sapper attack at the Pochentong Air Base,at least 1 Beaver was destroyed.In 1972
at leat 1 Beaver was refurbished with a new engine.
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Mong Palatino (3 June 2017). "Fake news photos justifying return of martial law to Philippines". Business Standard. Retrieved 4 June 2017. Screenshot of an article posted in a Philippine government news website. The photo of the article is taken from a Wikipedia entry discussing the Vietnam War.
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Remove unsubstantiated claims in casualties or cite sources.
Kennedy was elected President in 1960. Kennedy assumed the office of the Presidency in 1961. Any reference to the Kennedy Presidency with dates prior to 1961 took place under the Eisenhower Presidency. Your introductory paragraph(s) need to be changed to reflect the dates and/or the Presidency. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.203.216.141 (talk) 19:11, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Because the article states that this was officially a war between North and South Vietnam, I think we should change the sentence "This made it a proxy war between the US and the Soviet Union" to "This made it both a Vietnamese civil war and a proxy war between the US and the Soviet Union". Akysky (talk) 01:59, 28 October 2024 (UTC) Blocked sock. Sir Sputnik (talk) 18:47, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
In Vietnam, we have always been propagated by the government that this was the war of the Vietnamese people against the invading American imperialists, not a proxy war and not a civil war. But yes, based on this article, the sentence can be changed like that, so I agree with you. 101.99.6.247 (talk) 05:10, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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According to the article above, not only Cambodia helped FULRO in the Vietnam War. So I think we need to fix the paragraph about FULRO in info box. Abaotabao (talk) 04:01, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Did Spain really participate in the war directly when it only sent a very small number of advisers and medical staff? If it is true that Spain participated in the war, it should have been listed in the Belligerents section. Furthermore, according to infobox, Taiwan participated in the war, but why don't I see the data on the country's manpower participating in the war? 1.54.212.31 (talk) 18:58, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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The photo of Bảo Đại and Hồ Chí Minh in the First Indochina War section was taken in September 1945, not 1 June 1946. In fact, Bảo Đại gave up his position as supreme advisor to the Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam after going to China to work on 16 March 1946; he stayed in China. So time in the photo is wrong. 42.113.161.192 (talk) 17:46, 9 December 2024 (UTC) (sock strike)[reply]
No I can't read Vietnamese, and I am unsure these are RS (well one maybe, but am unsure it supports the claim about the picture), so can anyone confirm the date this was taken? Slatersteven (talk) 18:25, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Intothatdarkness: What is the reason for your revert in Special:Diff/1263432945? I made this edit because "Direct US military involvement" is ambiguous (could mean supplies, training, advisors, etc. instead of boots-on-the-ground), and because "greatly escalated from 1965 until 1973" can be interpreted as a continuous escalation over this period, when in fact the number of US troops peaked in 1969 and then declined. — Goszei (talk) 17:12, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Because your wording is not an improvement. Both direct ground forces AND military aid to ARVN increased after that date. Direct military involvement captures the whole situation much better than your wording, which just implies ground units. And while troops may have dropped off, there were increases in air assets as well as supplies and aid to ARVN after 1969. Intothatdarkness17:32, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
According to the Chieu Hoi program, 101,511 defections occurred. This is a significant figure itself to warrant inclusion, and also due to the sectarian and political nature of the war. The number may be higher as well as the program only ran from 1963-1971, and did not cover the post US-involvement period.
This may make up a portion of the the official military missing if they were not known to have defected by the North/NLF, under the 'military missing' label.
Either way, I recommend modifying the Casualties section to include defections, included with the 232,000 military missing as '232,000 military missing'(with up to 100,000 defections), or as a seperate figure over '100,000' defections (including officially missing)'.
Second, the final tally should then be changed to reflect this as dead/missing/defected.
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Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. PianoDan (talk) 16:50, 7 August 2024 (UTC)