After two protracted years of fighting that wearied down the Army of the
Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), the North Vietnamese decided to launch their
final campaign in January 1975. The president of South Vietnam, Nguyen
Van Thieu, decided upon a wide range of strategic withdrawals to
consolidate his forces, that saw the northern half of the country
abandoned to the enemy. The scheme turned into a disaster, and by March
1975 the whole North Vietnamese regular battle corps, some 550,000
troops and 700 tanks, were now amassing at the gates of South Vietnam's
capital and the following fighting led to some of the fiercest fighting
of the Vietnam War.
The final volume of Target Saigon examines the final campaigns of the
conflict in Vietnam, in which the Communist forces engaged in a highly
mechanized war of maneuver. Despite being heavily outnumbered, many of
the ARVN's units put up a fierce resistance, inflicting heavy casualties
upon the advancing Northern forces, in a series of battles that were far
from the rout often described.
Target Saigon Volume 4 is illustrated with a number of maps, 130
photographs and over 30 original color artworks illustrating the men,
vehicles and aircraft of this campaign.