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Viet Cong

Proper noun

Meaning

Viet Cong

Alternative spelling of Vietcong

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Also, during the Vietnam war, soldiers used 'Cain' instead of 'Charlie' because 'Charlie' meant Viet Cong (Charlie being short for Victor Charlie, the NATO alphabet spelling of the initials VC). Source: Internet

According to Rummel, North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops murdered between 106,000 and 227,000 civilians in South Vietnam. Source: Internet

After overthrowing pro-China Sihanouk, Cambodian leader Lon Nol, despite being anti-Communist and ostensibly in the "pro-American" camp, continued to back FULRO against all Vietnamese, both anti-communist South Vietnam and the Communist Viet Cong. Source: Internet

An American POW being released by his North Vietnamese and Viet Cong captors in February 1973. Source: Internet

Dallek 1998, p. 249. Long term estimates of the bombing campaign ranged from an expectation that Hanoi would rein in the Viet Cong to one of provoking Hanoi and the Viet Cong into an intensification of the war. Source: Internet

But Saigon, bolstered by a surge of U.S. aid received just before the ceasefire went into effect, began to roll back the Viet Cong. Source: Internet

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