Original Items: Only One Available. This is a genuine USGI bring Back Viet Cong flag from the Vietnam War. This cotton flag measures 32 inches tall by 43 inches wide and is a three-piece construction. There is a narrow sleeve pocket on the hoist edge for a pole or rope. A very nicely constructed flag with period stitching, this is not one of the cheap tourist or reproduction type flags that flood the market today.

Condition of the flag is very good, with a lovely faded look on one side, while the other still shows the original colors. This must have been flying in the sun for some time to get this look. It shows some stains on the central star, as well as on the blue and red portions. There are multiple tears in the red fabric, which have been repaired by tape. Possibly the red portion was made of a less resilient fabric, or the red dye made it become brittle.

A great bring back from the Vietnam War!

The Viet Cong also known as the National Liberation Front, was a mass political organization in South Vietnam and Cambodia with its own army – the People's Liberation Armed Forces of South Vietnam (PLAF) – that fought against the United States and South Vietnamese governments during the Vietnam War, eventually emerging on the winning side. It had both guerrilla and regular army units, as well as a network of cadres who organized peasants in the territory it controlled. Many soldiers were recruited in South Vietnam, but others were attached to the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN), the regular North Vietnamese army. During the war, communists and anti-war activists insisted the Việt Cộng was an insurgency indigenous to the South, while the U.S. and South Vietnamese governments portrayed the group as a tool of Hanoi. Although the terminology distinguishes northerners from the southerners, communist forces were under a single command structure set up in 1958.

North Vietnam established the National Liberation Front on December 20, 1960, to foment insurgency in the South. Many of the Việt Cộng's core members were volunteer "regroupees", southern Việt Minh who had resettled in the North after the Geneva Accord (1954). Hanoi gave the regroupees military training and sent them back to the South along the Ho Chi Minh trail in the early 1960s. The NLF called for southern Vietnamese to "overthrow the camouflaged colonial regime of the American imperialists" and to make "efforts toward the peaceful unification". The PLAF's best-known action was the Tet Offensive, a gigantic assault on more than 100 South Vietnamese urban centers in 1968, including an attack on the U.S. embassy in Saigon. The offensive riveted the attention of the world's media for weeks, but also overextended the Việt Cộng. Later communist offensives were conducted predominantly by the North Vietnamese. The organization was dissolved in 1976 when North and South Vietnam were officially unified under a communist government.