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Operation Speedy Express was a controversial military operation conducted by the United States Army's 9th Infantry Division during the Vietnam War in the Mekong Delta provinces of Kiến Hòa and Vĩnh Bình.^[1]

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History of Bến Tre province
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Massacres committed by the United States
Vietnam War casualties
Vietnam War crimes committed by the United States

AK-47

The AK-47, officially known as the Avtomat Kalashnikova (also known as the Kalashnikov or just AK), is an assault rifle that is chambered for the 7.62×39mm cartridge.

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Alexander D. Shimkin

Alexander Demitri "Alex" Shimkin (October 11, 1944 – July 12, 1972) was an American war correspondent who was killed in the Vietnam War.

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Ambush

An ambush is a surprise attack carried out by people lying in wait in a concealed position.

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Định Tường province

Định Tường (定祥) was a province of Vietnam during the Nguyen dynasty and South Vietnam.

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Bạc Liêu province

Bạc Liêu province is a province of Vietnam.

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Bến Tre province

Bến Tre is a province of Vietnam.

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Bell UH-1 Iroquois

The Bell UH-1 Iroquois (nicknamed "Huey") is a utility military helicopter designed and produced by the American aerospace company Bell Helicopter.

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Body count

A body count is the total number of people killed in a particular event.

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Cai Cai Camp

Cai Cai Camp (also known as Cai Cai Special Forces Camp or Dan Chu Camp) is a former U.S. Army and Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) base northwest of Bình Thạnh Đông on the Plain of Reeds in southern Vietnam.

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Cai Lậy district

Cai Lậy is a Rural district of Tien Giang province in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam.

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Cambodia

Cambodia, officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country in Mainland Southeast Asia.

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Cái Bè

Cái Bè is a township (thị trấn) and capital of Cái Bè District, Tiền Giang Province, Vietnam.

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Cessna O-1 Bird Dog

The Cessna O-1 Bird Dog is a liaison and observation aircraft that first flew on December 14, 1949, and entered service in 1950 as the L-19 in the Korean War.

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Chương Thiện province

Chương Thiện was a former province of South Vietnam from 1961 to 1975, now corresponding to Hau Giang province.

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Chuck Hagel

Charles Timothy Hagel (born October 4, 1946), Associated Press, published in The News-Times, December 17, 2012.

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Civilian Irregular Defense Group program

The Civilian Irregular Defense Group (CIDG, pronounced) was a military program developed by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the Vietnam War, which was intended to develop South Vietnamese irregular military units from indigenous ethnic-minority populations.

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Counterinsurgency

Counterinsurgency (COIN, or NATO spelling counter-insurgency) is "the totality of actions aimed at defeating irregular forces".

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Creighton Abrams

Creighton Williams Abrams Jr. (September 15, 1914 – September 4, 1974) was a United States Army general who commanded military operations in the Vietnam War from 1968 to 1972.

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David Hackworth

Colonel David Haskell Hackworth (November 11, 1930 – May 4, 2005) was a United States Army officer and journalist, who was decorated in both the Korean War and Vietnam War.

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Douglas AC-47 Spooky

The Douglas AC-47 ("Puff, the Magic Dragon") was the first in a series of fixed-wing gunships developed by the United States Air Force during the Vietnam War.

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Fighter-bomber

A fighter-bomber is a fighter aircraft that has been modified, or used primarily, as a light bomber or attack aircraft.

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Gò Công province

Gò Công was a former province of the former South Vietnam from 1924 till 1976.

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Hughes OH-6 Cayuse

The Hughes OH-6 Cayuse is a single-engine light helicopter designed and produced by the American aerospace company Hughes Helicopters.

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Human Rights Record of the United States

The Human Rights Record of the United States is an annual publication by the Information Office of the State Council of the People's Republic of China as a retort to the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices by the United States Department of State.

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Julian Ewell

Julian Johnson Ewell (November 5, 1915 – July 27, 2009) was a career United States Army officer who served in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War.

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Le Quan Cong

Le Quan Cong was a South Vietnamese communist guerilla and soldier who fought against both French and American forces, and also Vietnamese anti-communist forces during the First Indochina War and the Vietnam War.

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Major general (United States)

In the United States Armed Forces, a major general is a two-star general officer in the United States Army, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Space Force.

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Mekong Delta

The Mekong Delta (lit or simply label), also known as the Western Region (Miền Tây) or South-western region (Tây Nam Bộ), is the region in southwestern Vietnam where the Mekong River approaches and empties into the sea through a network of distributaries.

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Military Assistance Command, Vietnam

The U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV) was a joint-service command of the United States Department of Defense, composed of forces from the United States Army, United States Navy, and United States Air Force, as well as their respective special operations forces.

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Military operation

A military operation (op) is the coordinated military actions of a state, or a non-state actor, in response to a developing situation.

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Mobile Riverine Force

In the Vietnam War, the Mobile Riverine Force (MRF) (after May 1967), initially designated Mekong Delta Mobile Afloat Force, and later the Riverines, were a joint US Army and US Navy force that comprised a substantial part of the brown-water navy.

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My Lai massacre

The My Lai massacre (Thảm sát Mỹ Lai) was a war crime committed by the United States Army on 16 March 1968, involving the mass murder of unarmed civilians in Sơn Mỹ village, Quảng Ngãi province, South Vietnam, during the Vietnam War. Operation Speedy Express and my Lai massacre are 1968 in Vietnam, massacres committed by the United States and Vietnam War crimes committed by the United States.

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Newsweek

Newsweek is a weekly news magazine.

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Nick Turse

Nick Turse (born 1975) is an American investigative journalist, historian, and author.

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Pentagon Papers

The Pentagon Papers, officially titled Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force, is a United States Department of Defense history of the United States' political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1968.

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People sniffer

People sniffer was the field name for a series of U.S. Army issued "personnel detectors" used during the Vietnam War.

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Phoenix Program

The Phoenix Program (Chiến dịch Phụng Hoàng) was designed and initially coordinated by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the Vietnam War, involving the American, South Vietnamese militaries, and a small amount of Special forces operatives from the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam. Operation Speedy Express and Phoenix Program are Vietnam War crimes committed by the United States.

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Robert G. Gard Jr.

Robert Gibbins Gard Jr. (born January 28, 1928) is a retired United States Army lieutenant general and former chairman of the board of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation where his work focuses on nuclear nonproliferation, missile defense, Iraq, Iran, military policy, nuclear terrorism, and other national security issues.

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RPG-7

The RPG-7 (Ruchnoy Protivotankovyy Granatomot) is a portable, reusable, unguided, shoulder-launched, anti-tank, rocket launcher.

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Russell Tribunal

The Russell Tribunal, also known as the International War Crimes Tribunal, Russell–Sartre Tribunal, or Stockholm Tribunal, was a private People's Tribunal organised in 1966 by Bertrand Russell, British philosopher and Nobel Prize winner, and hosted by French philosopher and writer Jean-Paul Sartre, along with Lelio Basso, Simone de Beauvoir, Vladimir Dedijer, Ralph Schoenman, Isaac Deutscher, Günther Anders and several others.

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Sampan

A sampan is a relatively flat-bottomed wooden boat found in East, Southeast, and South Asia.

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South Vietnam

South Vietnam, officially the Republic of Vietnam (RVN; Việt Nam Cộng hòa; VNCH, République du Viêt Nam), was a country in Southeast Asia that existed from 1955 to 1975, the period when the southern portion of Vietnam was a member of the Western Bloc during part of the Cold War after the 1954 division of Vietnam.

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Tiger Force

Tiger Force was the name of a long-range reconnaissance patrol (LRRP) unit of the 1st Battalion (Airborne), 327th Infantry, 1st Brigade (Separate), 101st Airborne Division, which fought in the Vietnam War from November 1965 to November 1967. Operation Speedy Express and Tiger Force are Vietnam War crimes committed by the United States.

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United Press International

United Press International (UPI) is an American international news agency whose newswires, photo, news film, and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations for most of the 20th century until its eventual decline beginning in the early 1980s.

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United States Air Force

The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States.

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United States Armed Forces

The United States Armed Forces are the military forces of the United States.

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United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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United States Secretary of Defense

The United States Secretary of Defense (SecDef) is the head of the United States Department of Defense, the executive department of the U.S. Armed Forces, and is a high-ranking member of the federal cabinet.

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United States war crimes

Members of the United States Armed Forces have violated the law of war after the signing of the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 and the signing of the Geneva Conventions.

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Vĩnh Bình province

Vĩnh Bình was a province in the Mekong Delta region of southern Vietnam.

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Viet Cong

The Viet Cong was an epithet and umbrella term to call the communist-driven armed movement and united front organization in South Vietnam.

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Vietnam War

The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. Operation Speedy Express and Vietnam War are 1968 in Vietnam and 1969 in Vietnam.

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Vietnam War body count controversy

The Vietnam War body count controversy centers on the counting of enemy dead by the United States Armed Forces during the Vietnam War (1955–1975). Operation Speedy Express and Vietnam War body count controversy are Vietnam War casualties.

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Vietnam War Crimes Working Group

The Vietnam War Crimes Working Group (VWCWG) was a Pentagon task force set up in the wake of the My Lai massacre and its media disclosure.

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Winter Soldier Investigation

The "Winter Soldier Investigation" was a media event sponsored by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) from January 31, 1971, to February 2, 1971. Operation Speedy Express and Winter Soldier Investigation are Vietnam War crimes committed by the United States.

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