Battle of Kontum
1972 CE.
Shown on the map at 14.356°, 108.008°.
The lead-up to the Battle of Kontum began in mid-1971, when North Vietnam decided that their performance in Operation Lam Son 719 indicated that the time had come for large-scale conventional offensives that could end the war quickly. The resulting offensive, planned for the spring of 1972, would be known as the Easter Offensive in Western media, the 1972 Spring–Summer Offensive (Chiến dịch Xuân–Hè 1972) in North Vietnam, or the Fiery Red Summer (Mùa hè đỏ lửa) in South Vietnam. The Easter Offensive would make use of fourteen divisions and would be the largest in the war. The 1972 Easter Offensive began with a massive attack on the Demilitarized Zone with 30,000 People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) soldiers and more than 100 tanks. Two thrusts of equivalent size, one towards Saigon and another to the Central Highlands and provincial capital of Kontum began soon after, code-named as Nguyễn Huệ campaign and Bắc Tây Nguyên campaign respectively.
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