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Vietnam: ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam) soldier interrogating villagers, South Vietnam c.1965.

Vietnam: ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam) soldier interrogating villagers, South Vietnam c.1965.

The Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) was the land-based military forces of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), which existed from October 26, 1955 until the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975. After the fall of Saigon and the communist victory, the ARVN was dissolved. While some members had fled the country to the United States or elsewhere, hundreds of thousands of former ARVN soldiers were sent to reeducation camps by the newly unified Vietnamese communist government.

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