With Khe Sanh victory on July 9, 1968, Huong Hoa district in Quang Tri province became the first district in the south to be liberated.
Prior to the General Offensive and Uprising in Spring 1968, the US imperialists built Road No 9 through Khe Sanh in central Quang Tri province, as a special strategic position (Photo: VNA)
Khe Sanh became the region which gathered the largest number of US soldiers and weaponry, aimed at suppressing the assistance from the north to the south of Vietnam (Photo: VNA)
(Photo: VNA)
As for the Armed Forces for the Liberation of South Vietnam, this area served as a bridge connecting the northern great rear with the southern great front line. As for the U.S. forces, this was the strategic defence line to counter all offensives launched by the North Vietnamese Army (Photo: VNA)
During 170 days of fierce fighting at Khe Sanh, the Vietnamese armed forces and people had put out of action 11,900 enemies, shot down 480 aircraft of different kinds, destroyed 120 military vehicles and hundreds of artillery, and seized a substantial amount of weapons (Photo: VNA)
(Photo: VNA)
The triumph demonstrated a mix of strategic and accurate decision-making, appropriate selection of combat zones, and excellent implementation of diversionary tactics by the Vietnamese army (Photo: VNA)
The central province of Quang Tri on September 5 held a reburial service for the remains of 74 Vietnamese soldiers who are believed to have been killed during the war against the US in 1968.
The People’s Committee of Huong Hoa district of central Quang Tri province held a burial service for the remains of 52 war martyrs on April 21, all of whom lost their lives on the Road 9-Khe Sanh battlefield.
A ceremony in tribute to war heroes, heroic Vietnamese mothers and those who rendered their services to the revolutionary war took place in the central province of Quang Tri on July 18, ahead of the War Invalids and Martyrs’ Day (July 27).
Floods, sparked by torrential rains, have occurred in central provinces over the last few days, beginning to wreak havoc on the localities which already suffered from the recent devastating floods.
The Lien Viet Post Joint Stock Commercial Bank (LienVietPostBank) will give central Quang Tri province a credit package worth 500 billion VND (22 million USD) to help the locality develop macadamia farming.
The central province of Quang Tri has chosen coffee, pepper and shrimp to join the chain of national key products as they have competitive advantages, said the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.