By using our website and our services, you agree to our use of cookies as described. Technically a military defeat for the viet cong, the offensive became a political and public relations disaster at home on u. Saturday evening, lets celebrate on the same, you never give it to me overwhelm but im d. The album also features a rerecorded version of a previous song, bunker buster. On a windows pc or microsoft surface, you can still use itunes to buy content, download songs you love from apple music, and sync content on your device with your computer. Close quarters hastened their exhaustion but also honed them as a group. Viet cong is the debut studio album by canadian rock band viet cong. At the beginning of 1965, the viet cong had 47 main force battalions, including those in five regiments.
Vc used this fox hole to support sappers on base trying to escape after their attack. For most of 1967, north vietnam held itsand the viet congsmilitary operations in the south at a low level in order to accumulate supplies for the massive tet offensive that was to begin the night of jan. Our patrol area was the east perimeter from bunker hill10 to the entrance to the airborne base. Go where, go where fluorescent primates teem and wind through the neon screens that scan over muted lips on japanese ships swelling, screaming its a deranged. Yoonha park produced by neighborhood watch executive producers. Here is a list of albums from vital artists who are supposed to gift us with new music this year. The attack by vietcong vc sappers supported by mortar fire was repulsed by. The 199th lib captured many vc weapons, including 78 semiautomatic and 68 crewserved weapons. The sapper and mortar attack on tan son nhut air base occurred during the early hours of 4 december 1966. The pentagon papers, the sacred willow four generations in the life of vietnamese family, and a. Viet cong and north vietnamese army regulars swept down highway one, blew a hole in the tan son nhut fence and swarmed toward bunker o51.
In january 1968, during the tet holiday ceasefire, the north vietnamese and viet cong attacked over 100 cities and bases in south vietnam. Photo by, dick larsen an hcp crown hercules from the 39th arrs parked in the tuy hoa revetment area. The vietnam war, an immersive tenpart, eighteen hour documentary film series directed by acclaimed filmmakers ken burns and lynn novick, tells the epic story of one of the most divisive, consequential and misunderstood events in american history, as it has never before been told on film. Piazza climbed out of the bunker and returned fire with a 40mm.
Since womens dissolution, the members of the calgary band have gone on to form various projects, and this includes viet cong. Viet cong losses also included 32 pows, and another 42 became detainees. Drilling down on the extremes of the cassette ep, the first fulllength from viet cong later to be known as preoccupations is an inspired mix of gritty and beautiful, pairing fractured blasts of noise with plush synths newspaper spoons and deadpan vocals with striking lattices of guitar bunker buster a sound that shouldnt make as much sense as it does. Following a scattering of live shows, their debut ep cassette. Bunker buster rough mix by viet cong free listening on. Viet cong licensed to youtube by merlin sc distribution, merlin idla distribution on behalf of flemish eye records. Recorded in a barnturnedstudio in rural ontario, the seven songs that make up viet cong were born largely on the road, when flegel and bandmates mike wallace, scott munro and daniel christiansen embarked on a 50date tour that stretched virtually every limit imaginable.
It was not surprising to discover that matt flegel was into louies fourth season a show that celebrates the comedy of our lowest moments for actually. National archives description coverage of arvn troops with viet cong prisoners showing the prisoners being marched across field and interrogated on porch of. As explained in the responses here, the north vietnamese nva or pavn were the formal army of north vietnam while the viet cong short for vietnamese communist was the guerrilla army of south vietnam. Stream bunker buster rough mix by viet cong from desktop or your mobile device. Viet cong prisoners, republic of vietnam, 12021964.
Sep 10, 2015 preoccupations bunker buster from viet cong out now. Viet cong is a canadian postpunk band based in calgary, alberta. Photo 1 members of the 31st sps check out a fighting hole dug by viet cong outside the perimeter fence between oscar7 tower and golf16 bunker. The viet cong 19651967 part 1 and the viet cong 19651967 part 2. Conventional bunker busters during the 1991 gulf war, allied forces knew of several underground military bunkers in iraq that were so well reinforced and so deeply buried that they were out of. This provided camouflage from both aerial and ground observation and protection to withstand aerial and artillery bombardment other than a direct hit from a b52 strike. Prior to reading a vietcong memoir, i read several books on vietnam. You can designate records as seasonal, and you can feel viet congs bleakness and declare it wintry. Death recorded in a barnturnedstudio in rural ontario, the seven songs that make up viet cong were born largely on the road, when flegel and bandmates mike wallace, scott munro and daniel christiansen embarked on a 50.
The group is comprised of two former members of the band women, vocalistbassist matt flegel and drummer mike wallace. From the moment the song hits the halfminute mark and those iconic slanted guitars. The timesignatureshifting bunker buster leads into standout continental shelf, which has shades of television in its jangling guitar riffs. Viet cong shares eerie video for bunker buster watch. And so where their previous album viet cong was built in some ways on the abstract cycles of creation and destruction, preoccupations explores how that sometimessuffocating, sometimesrevelatory trap affects our lives. We discarded a lot, reworking songs pretty ruthlessly, munro explains. Perfect post punk blasts like bunker buster and silhouettes give way to the massive outro that is. Viet cong vc, in full viet nam cong san, english vietnamese communists, the guerrilla force that, with the support of the north vietnamese army, fought against south vietnam late 1950s1975 and the united states early 1960s1973. For anyone whos spent the past couple years missing gonetoosoon calgary noiserockers women, something about the sound of the glass. Rounding out the quartet are guitarists scott munro and daniel christiansen. Preoccupations bunker buster from viet cong out now.
But the only way you get a frost is when theres something warmer to freeze up. My responsibilities, included the care and feeding of the windy units sentry dogs and bunker hill10. If you have music to share, are interested in contributing to radio in opposition, or want to talk to us. Death recorded in a barnturnedstudio in rural ontario, the seven songs that make up viet cong were born largely on the road, when flegel and bandmates mike wallace, scott munro and daniel christiansen embarked on a 50date tour that stretched virtually every limit imaginable.
Viet cong is the only album released by the band under this name, as they changed their name to preoccupations in 2016. Because our mp3s have no drm, you can play it on any device that supports mp3, even on your ipod. One of the most helpless feelings i experienced in vietnam is when our firebase was being mortared incoming and hoping the next rocket wouldnt be a direct hit. They were labelled cowards for refusing to fight in open battle. We have broken this section into four main sites listed below. Preoccupations bunker buster official video youtube.
The members of our apple support community can help answer your question. In 20, they adopted the name viet cong and released their debut recording, a foursong. The main thrust of the attack had begun at the western perimeter, with 600 enemy dedicated to the defeat and overrunning of bunker o51. Viet cong shares eerie video for bunker buster watch in continued support of the postpunk outfits selftitled debut. It has some rare national liberation front bills that were captured from a unfortunate viet cong in 1966. Inspired by standing in the rain in times square when i was 20, smoking too many cigarettes and imagining i was in blade runner. The viet cong were cursed and condemned for not following the western conventions of war. More than 400 viet cong died in front of our bunker line. What is the difference between the nva and viet cong. In this article, youll learn about several different types of bunker buster so you will understand how they work and where the technology is heading. Mp3 is a digital audio format without digital rights management drm technology. I was never a witness to any tunnels around the danang while i was with the americal division in 7172. I had to do a serious research due to my limited knowledge about this topic.
The nlf bills are in a clickable format so you can view them up close, you can see a picture of a downed helicopter with. Sep 10, 2015 viet cong shares eerie video for bunker buster watch in continued support of the postpunk outfits selftitled debut. Viet cong clearly have no time to waste, turning out an ep and fulllength within 6 months of each other. So yes, viet cong is a winter album, but only until it is a spring record, then a summer scorcher, then an autumn burner, then it ices over again. Black sheep wall the wailing and the gnashing and the teeth im going to kill myself carpenter brut disco zombi italia trilogy doomtree cabin killer all hands viet cong bunker buster viet cong chapel of disease lord of all death between the. Truong nhu tangs a vietcong memoir is an easy read if youre familiar with vietnams lengthy colonial history. Military doctrine as it had emerged from world war ii and korea focused on regular military formations. Viet cong attack on tan son nhut air base 1966 wikipedia. The viet cong relied on elements of speed and surprise. The more i read, the more i am amazed by what the previous vietnamese generations did during the war. The pentagon papers, the sacred willow four generations in the life of vietnamese family, and a history book that began in the 5th century. The viet cong and north vietnamese army units tended to locate their sanctuaries in dense jungle forests and mountainous cave systems. A veteran security police sergeant took over when the officer in charge at the point of attack was killed defending bien hoa.
Jun 18, 2019 the attitude of most american soldiers towards the viet cong evolved into a combination of hatred, fear and begrudging admiration. The vietcong just lost all of theyre higher leadership ho chi minh just went poof, military and civilian, no one is helping them, the industrial base in the north that provided them with weapons and ammo just disappeared. There was no place for the guerrillas and political. More than 960 viet cong died around the lbj perimeter during the first 18 hours of the tet offensive of 1968. The name is said to have first been used by south vietnamese pres. Produced by neighborhood watch executive producers.
Inspired by standing in the rain in times square when i was 20, smoking too many cigarettes and. Check out viet cong by preoccupations on amazon music. So yes, viet cong is a winter album, but only until it is a spring record, then a summer scorcher, then an. These numbers may or may not include such nva units as. Mar 20, 2014 for anyone whos spent the past couple years missing gonetoosoon calgary noiserockers women, something about the sound of the glassshard guitars that open viet cong s bunker buster is. The average bunker dimensions were 10 x 6 feet, about 5 feet deep and with 3 to 5 feet of overhead protection of logs, dirt and foliage. The first single from the album, continental shelf, was released for streaming on october 15, 2014.
Whilst 5rar confronted both kinds in most parts of phuoc tuy and the surrounding provinces, probably the greatest concentration of bunker systems encountered was in bien hoa province where we fought hq mr7 and. Viet cong by preoccupations, released 20 january 2015 1. North vietnam held itsand the viet congsmilitary operations in the south at a low level in order to accumulate supplies for the massive tet offensive that was to begin the night of jan. Formed in 2012 the group features matt flegel and mike wallace from women, along with daniel christiansen from sharp ends and scott munro from lab coastreuben and the dark.
Tan son nhut air base was one of the major air bases used for offensive air operations within south vietnam and for the support of united states army and army of the republic of vietnam arvn ground operations. Jan 24, 2015 viet cong licensed to youtube by merlin sc distribution, merlin idla distribution on behalf of flemish eye records. Our patrol area was the east perimeter from bunker hill10 to the entrance to the airborne base, where the perimeter turned back to the west. The japanese have what, 5 million men and arent fighting anyone else. You can designate records as seasonal, and you can feel viet cong s bleakness and declare it wintry.
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