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Quân Đội Nhân Dân Việt Nam
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image located 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
The motto on the hoist translates as "Sure win" or "Certain win" (or "Determined to win" in a more elaborate sense), a reference to the Vietnam War (sic), or "Viet Nam War" (Vietnamese: Chiến tranh Việt Nam), also known as "the Second Indochina War", and also known in Vietnam as Resistance War Against America (Vietnamese: Kháng chiến chống Mỹ) or simply the American War, because of the resolve of North Viet Nam's will to invade the South and unify the country. The Quân Đội Nhân dân Việt Nam, QDND (People's Army of Viet Nam, PAVN) was first conceived in September 1944 at the first Revolutionary Party Military Conference and formally established on 22 December 1944 but its military history traces its roots to 2,000 B.C.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Army_of_Vietnam and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_of_Vietnam
Esteban Rivera, 13 February 2016
image located 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."
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
image located by Esteban Rivera, 6 June 2011
image located 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 T-54B No. 843 (although it is now disputed whether the actual tank in display is a T-54/55, as seen in this forum that provides additional pictures of the entrance of a T-54 tank into the Presidential Palace on 30 April 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