Trade Union honors and promotes the 60th anniversary of Binh Gia Victory (December 2, 1964 - December 2, 2024)

Focus on propaganda about Binh Gia Victory

Many provincial and municipal labor federations have published propaganda articles about the Binh Gia victory, in which, under the direction of the Presidium of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor, the articles have focused on disseminating the historical context, developments and significance of the Binh Gia victory; affirming that this victory has extremely important historical significance, contributing to the fundamental failure of the US-puppet "special war" strategy, opening a new era for the revolutionary war in the South. Lessons learned from the Binh Gia victory.

Honor and pay tribute to the steadfast fighting spirit and heroic sacrifice of our army and people in the resistance war against the US to save the country, especially the cadres, soldiers, workers and people who directly participated in the battle.

Propagating the achievements in socio-economic development, national defense - security, and foreign affairs of the Southeast provinces in general and Ba Ria - Vung Tau province in particular after 60 years of the Binh Gia Victory; the pride, the will to be self-reliant, self-reliant, and promoting the spirit of the Binh Gia Victory, building Ba Ria - Vung Tau province and the Southeast provinces and the whole country to become increasingly rich, beautiful, and civilized. Fighting and refuting false, hostile information and viewpoints, distorting history, taking advantage of events to sabotage the Party, the State, the regime, and dividing the great national unity bloc.

Historic victory - a step forward in the art of revolutionary warfare in Vietnam

The Binh Gia victory was the first offensive campaign of the Liberation Army of South Vietnam on the Southeast battlefield during the resistance war against the US to save the country. This was a historical event of great significance, contributing to the fundamental failure of the US-puppet “special war” strategy, opening a new period of the revolutionary war in South Vietnam.

Binh Gia “strategic hamlet” (now in Chau Duc district, Ba Ria - Vung Tau province) is located on Highway 327, 4km from Duc Thanh sub-region (old Ba Ria province), the length of the hamlet is about 4km - this is the enemy's “model” “strategic hamlet”, in which the majority of the people are fascinated by reactionary doctrine, and are exploited by the enemy to sabotage us. Binh Gia “strategic hamlet”, the enemy organized its own forces to protect and fiercely sabotage us. Due to the importance of Ba Ria province, the enemy tried to consolidate this province to create a defensive position to block the North and Northeast, protecting the Vung Tau naval base. In compliance with the directives of the Central Military Commission, the General Command and the operational direction of the Winter-Spring 1964 - 1965 campaign, in early November 1964, the Regional Command decided to launch an attack campaign against the enemy in the area of ​​Binh Gia - Duc Thanh - Road No. 2 (70km east of Saigon), in the provinces of Ba Ria, Long Khanh, Bien Hoa, Binh Thuan (now in Ba Ria - Vung Tau, Dong Nai and Southern Binh Thuan provinces) with an area of ​​nearly 500km2, in which the main direction was determined to be Ba Ria - Long Khanh, the coordinated directions were Nhon Trach, Long Thanh (Bien Hoa) and Hoai Duc, Tanh Linh (Binh Thuan) to destroy a part of the force, destroy the key pacification plan of the Saigon puppet government, support the uprising mass movement to destroy "strategic hamlets", promote guerrilla warfare, expand the revolutionary base area...

The campaign was divided into two phases. Phase 1 from December 2-17, 1964; Phase 2 from December 27, 1964 - January 3, 1965.

Results of the campaign: We eliminated over 1,700 enemies (captured 293), including destroying the 33rd Ranger Battalion, the 4th Marine Battalion and an M113 armored unit...