The Republic of Vietnam domestic airmail cover from My Tho province, South Viet Nam to Major R.K. Malott, a delegate of the Canadian Forces, serving in the International Commission of Control and Supervision (ICCS).
Very rare and historically meaningful stamps:
one Quân Bưu stamp (The Army of the Republic of
Vietnam (ARVN) stamp) and two Bình Long Anh Dũng (the Heroic Binh Long) stamps in commemoration of the An Lộc battle.
Multifranked cover in excellent condition.
Nice cancels: My Tho, Vietnam. Postmarked May
19, 1973.
The North Vietnam's Easter Offensive in the northwest
of the Republic of Vietnam Military Region III, near the Cambodian
border, started on April 4, 1972. The offensive focused on the fighting in Bình
Long province and the siege of An Lộc, the capital city
of Bình Long province.
The Communist forces began their assault on April 13, 1972. A three-day
all-out attack failed, after which the battle turned into a prolonged sixty-day
siege of An Lộc with shifting communist attacks and ARVN counter-attacks.
During the battle, the Army of the Republic of
Vietnam (ARVN) 5th Division (approximately 7,500 soldiers, under the
command of General Lê văn Hưng and his
deputy commander, senior colonel Lê Nguyên Vỹ) was outnumbered by a combined communist
force consisting of three People's Army
of Vietnam (PAVN) (also known as North Vietnam Army (NVA)) divisions
(later on estimated at over 36,000 soldiers, under the command of General Trần
văn Trà).
The North
Vietnamese Communist forces kept An Lộc under constant
artillery fire and had launched repeated massive all-out infantry and armor
(T-54 medium tanks) assaults on An Lộc.
Although the Communist forces on several occasions breached the
defenses, they never could knock-out the defenders; and An Lộc remained in the
hands of the South Vietnamese.
From April 12, 2019 through early June 2019, the ARVN had sent relief
forces to counter-attack the communist PAVN divisions.
On 18 June 1972, the ARVN III Corps commander declared
the battle was over.
However, the fighting had only subsided
and An Lộc was not completely relieved until July 11, 1972.
The historic Battle of An Lộc (1972) lasted
for 66 days and culminated in a tactical victory for the Republic of
Vietnam. The struggle for An Lộc was an important battle of the Vietnam war,
as South Vietnamese forces (ARVN) had blunted the massive North Vietnamese
Communist invasion and sucessfully halted
the Communist forces’ advance towards Saigon.
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