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![[flag of the Vietnam People's Army]](../images/v/vn^vpa.gif)
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by Esteban Rivera, 6 June 2011
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The Vietnam People's Army (Vietnamese: Quân Đội Nhân Dân Việt Nam, variously
translated as Vietnamese People's Army and People's Army of Vietnam) has a flag
seen here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Viet_Nam_Peoples_Army.svg. (The
slogan in Vietnamese translates as "Determined to win").
Esteban Rivera,
6 June 2011
![[flag of the Vietnam People's Army]](../images/v/vn^spr.jpg)
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by Esteban Rivera, 6 June 2011
There's a Vietnamese military (could be Army or Navy/Marine Unit) flag at
http://media.lookatvietnam.com/2009/12/images1898873_1.jpg. It which seems
to be a military unit based in Trường Sa (also known as the Spratly Islands),
from the letters on the obverse of the flag which read "Dao Trường Sa" in yellow
capital letters on the bottom right of the flag.
"The Spratly Islands are
a group of more than 750 reefs, islets, atolls, cays and islands in the South
China Sea between (and claimed by) Vietnam, the Philippines, China, Malaysia and
Brunei. About 45 islands are occupied by relatively small numbers of military
forces from Vietnam, the People's Republic of China, the Republic of China
(Taiwan), Malaysia and the Philippines. Brunei"
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spratly_Islands
Esteban Rivera, 6
June 2011
A photograph at
http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/6479/610xrx.jpg appears to show a unit flag
of the Vietnamese army, an assumption I based on the number after the writing.
It appears different then the image above in having a lot more characters in
canton.
Marc Pasquin, 13 January 2012
Those more look like state/unit decorations than characters in the canton
area.
Zachary Harden, 13 January 2012
![[unknown flags in Vietnam Military History Museum]](../images/v/vn_ufe-a.jpg)
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by Esteban Rivera, 6 June 2011
![[unknown flags in Vietnam Military History Museum]](../images/v/vn_ufe-b.jpg)
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by Esteban Rivera, 6 June 2011
Using the software Google Earth, there's an application called "360º Cities"
(http://www.360cities.net). I found this
picture, by a user (Thang Bui) showing several flags inside the Vietnam Military
History Museum.
These flags are seen inside what appears to be the main
hall of the first floor of the Viet Nam Military History Museum (in Vietnamese:
Bảo tàng Lịch sử Quân sự Việt Nam) in Hanoi, to be more precise, next to the
exhibit of a Tank T54B No. 843 (although it is now disputed whether the actual tank in
display is a T54/55, as seen in this forum that provides additional pictures
of the entrance of a T54 tank into the Presidential Palace on April 30, 1975
ending the Second Indochina War, or most commonly known as the Vietnam War:
http://planetarmor.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6272).
If one faces the
tank, that is, the gun pointing towards oneself, then on the left there's a
row of 11 flags, most of them (if not all) of Vietnamese origin, including
the Viet Cong (National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam) flag, etc. On
the base of each flag is a plaque probably describing the flag
displayed.
On the right one can see five flags, probably captured flags
(one can see the US flag fifth, from left to right, and also what seems to be
a Viet Quoc with an
inscription, third flag from left to right.
For additional
information go to: Viet Nam Military History Museum (official website)
http://www.btlsqsvn.org.vn
Esteban Rivera,
6 June 2011
