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Your partially right. The South had it’s own Air Power. But look at the facts ONE lone tank crashed through the gates at the Presidential :Palace. In fact its still there as a monument. Truth is that there were Generals who wanted to fight, but the Communist President of the South lied to them and told them not to fight. The North met very little resistance on their way into Saigon.
P.S. Even though the communist have changed the name to Ho Chi Min city, most people still call it Saigon.

But look at the facts ONE lone tank crashed through the gates at the Presidential Palace.

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For Christ sake, man. Only one tank can come through a gate at a time. That doesn't mean there was only one tank in the northern army. The North had piles of Soviet tanks. There couldn't use them earlier because they would be sitting ducks for American aircraft. When American forces began withdrawal of support directed from home, the North was free to move armor against a defenseless South.

Let me recount the history I read. In 1973&74 the south vietnamese had some big fights with the north vietnamese. Casualties were high on both sides. The south held their ground generally. The north was being fed ammunition and equipment by the soviets at this point. The south was being fed ammunition and equipment by the americans. In the spring of 75 the US Congress cut off funding for the south vietnamese. The cutoff was effective immediately. The congressmen were so proud of themselves that they'd 'ended' our involvement in vietnam. Of course our troops had left completely in 73 formally while our troops had done very little fighting in 70, 71, 72 & 73. The big fighting for our guys occurred in 64, 65, 66, 67 & 68. Just 3 weeks or so later, after the cutoff in funding, the north vietnamese invaded with everything they had. The south's leaders knew they were going to lose because they were going to run out of ammunition. It wasn't much of a fight, some south vietnamese soldiers did in fact run out of ammunition while resisting. The generals didn't deploy them for victory because they knew it wasn't going to happen. The south's soldiers were scattering long before it was over.

If we'd kept funding them, then south vietnam would be free today and north vietnam would still be communist. The north wouldn't have clamped down on the south the way they did which cost hundreds of thousands of lives, perhaps even one million.

But look at the facts ONE lone tank crashed through the gates at the Presidential :Palace. In fact its still there as a monument.

Of course. It was inevitable that this happen. The south had already surrendered before the NVA came into Saigon. The president of SVN told his army to quit fighting because they had nothing left to fight with,and more deaths would have been pointless.