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1975 (Jan 8) Improvised envelope made from old map to Ha Bac bearing Viet Nam Dan Chu Cong Hoa Military Free frank no value (-) Soldier with Bayonet advancing (SG NMF 756) issued to Vietnam Peoples Army (PVA) tied Ha Noi date stamp………………………………………………..
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 equiped & 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.