People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) "Ho Chi Minh Campaign" banner, 1975.
This embroidered banner was designed to be viewed from one side only. It is propaganda and moral banner made for the Ho Chi Minh Campaign of 1975, the final North Vietnamese and Viet Cong (VC) assault on Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City).
The inscriptions, Quân đội Nhân dân Việt Nam and Chiến dịch Hồ Chà Minh above and below the central emblem, and the details of the embroidered insignia, of a North Vietnamese soldier in the foreground under a red flag bearing a likeness of Ho Chi Minh and North Vietnamese military might in the background, clearly indicate the North Vietnamese support for this final campaign of the Vietnam War.
Banners like this would have been used to inspire troops at training and briefing facilities prior to the launch of the campaign. The campaign was highly successful, allowing the combined PAVN/VC force of 187,000 to defeat a South Vietnamese force four times its size in less than two months.
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