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1970 (May 8) Pictorial envelope showing Chua Thien Mu pagada to Yen Phong, Yen Bai bearing Viet Nam Dan Chu Cong Hoa Military Free frank no value (-) Advancing soldiers (SG NMF 547) issued to Vietnam Peoples Army (PVA) tied Viet-Nam /Do-Loung cds & with on reverse Nghe-An (10 Jun) transit cds & manuscript 12-8-70 arrival ………………………………………………………..
PVA originally formed in 1944 by Ho Chi Minh & known as the Armed Propaganda Unit for National Liberation to drive out Japanese occupants & French colonialists & commonly called Viet Minh was by this time during the Viet- Nam war more organised, better equipped & battle hardened to eventually obtain the reunification of the country as Socialist Republic of Viet-Nam in July 1976 after the defeat of the USA in the Viet-Nam war.