CBRN event in Viet Nam on Thu 28th January 1965

28th January 1965

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...The South Vietnamese, acting on their own initiative, used CF and CN to break up a Buddhist riot in Saigon on November 2, 1964. By the next month the South Vietnamese Army, guided by US advisers, initiated the use of DM, CF, and CN in military operations against the Viet Cong. In missions carried out in strictest secrecy, the munitions were used on December 23 in Xuyen province, on December 25 in Tay Ninh province near Saigon, and on January 28, 1965, in Phu Yen province...

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