„Befreite Zonen Südvietnams“, herausgegeben vom Vietcong in Kuba 1968

Note: This might exaggerate territorial control.

I was in South Vietnam 1968 and about 7 months of 1969. I was an artillery Gypsy Forward Observer first for a battalion of the ARVN 1st division patrolling around I Corps up by the DMZ. I worked with them for my first six months in-country. They were solid soldiers patrolling east to west in I Corps all the way west to the Laotian border. I later joined an American track company stationed from the *Rue Sans Joi* to just below the DMZ,

The NVA had control of nothing, ever, except for the Citadel of the Imperial City. Hardly any of them left there alive.

I spent six months (or more) in the first six months of 1969 south in 3 Corps (Saigon) working for a 1st Cav company chasing down NVA from Saigon to the Cambodian border. The NVA controlled nothing, „liberated nothing and no one.

I read that the majority of South Vietnam was paying taxes to and receiving services from the northern government unless there was an ARVN/American presence in the area so a lot of villages had dual governments.

You couldn’t side with the south and expose the local communists otherwise the guerillas would come out and get revenge whenever the Americans left, and you couldn’t openly side with the communists either because the Americans had overwhelming superiority.

Look at the marbling on those first two.