PEOPLE’S ARMY OF NORTH VIETNAM

NGUYEN CHÍ THANH

A general in the North Vietnamese Army, Thanh joined the Communist Party in the mid-1930s and rose to the Politburo by 1951. He was the leading strategist of the People’s Army and was the one who presented the plans for the Tet Offensive in 1967, although he died shortly before the plan was implemented.

HOÀNG MINH THAO

Major General Hoang Minh Thao was the man on the ground for the Dak To confrontation with US forces and was well prepared for their arrival and the tactics they were likely to employ. By building tunnel networks connecting their trenches, they regularly flanked American attempts to suppress them.