Give flowers to congratulate meeting |
Reviewing the tradition, veteran Nguyen Thai Hoa - Chairman of the Truong Son Troops Tradition Association in Da Lat City emphasized: Half a century has passed but the Truong Son soldiers feel like it was just yesterday when 6/9 Truong Son Troops Division and the main Corps directly participated in the historic Ho Chi Minh Campaign, together with the whole nation to create a great victory day, the country was united.
Veteran Nguyen Thai Hoa - Chairman of the Truong Son Troops Tradition Association in Da Lat City reviews traditions |
Recalling the April days exactly 50 years ago, the entire Truong Son was mobilized into battle, seething with enthusiasm. On all the Truong Son roads, groups of people, vehicles, guns, and artillery stretched hundreds of kilometers, rushing straight to the South under the command of General Commander-in-Chief Vo Nguyen Giap: “Faster, faster! Bold, bolder! Seize every hour, every minute to rush to the front, liberate the South. Determined to fight and win!” Speed at this time became the command of reason, the heart of all Truong Son soldiers.
Former Truong Son soldiers attend the meeting |
On the march, the Corps and Truong Son Division passed through, contributing to the liberation of the Central and Southeastern provinces.
On the morning of April 30, Truong Son drivers bravely drove through obstacles on the streets of Saigon, closely following the formation and heading straight to the Independence Palace. At 11:30 a.m. on April 30, in a historic moment, the National Flag flew on the roof of the Palace, in the army was a CE-1283 vehicle of the 2nd Corps representing hundreds of thousands of Truong Son cadres and soldiers standing next to tanks 384 and 390 of the 203rd Brigade that crashed through the Palace gate, present in the first moments of victory.
Former Truong Son soldiers attend the meeting |
Group 559 - Truong Son Army was established on May 19, 1959, during 16 years of fighting, overcoming countless difficulties and hardships in the Truong Son mountains, overcoming rain of bombs and bullets and all brutal tricks from the enemy's weapons, equipment and ammunition.
From nearly 500 officers and soldiers in the early days, only 6 years later (1965) Group 559 became a unit equivalent to the Military Region level with a powerful combined arms force; from transporting rudimentary packs to transporting mainly by motor vehicles, completing all support requirements for the Southern battlefield.
Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Da Lat City presented 20 gifts to former Truong Son soldiers in difficult circumstances. |
16 years, from the day of birth to the day of national reunification, Truong Son troops made miracles: Filling 78 thousand bomb craters; digging and filling 29 million cubic meters of earth and rock to build a Truong Son road system with 5 vertical axes, 21 horizontal axes with a total length of nearly 20 thousand kilometers; building a "fire-carrying river" across the Truong Son range in two directions East and West, with branches leading to battlefields, with a total length of nearly 5,000 km, becoming the longest oil pipeline in the world at that time. Destroying hundreds of thousands of enemy bombs and mines; fighting 2,500 infantry battles; fighting back 133,000 enemy aircraft attacks of all kinds; enduring more than 4 million tons of various types of bombs and ammunition and millions of liters of toxic chemicals dropped by the US on Truong Son; shooting down 2,455 aircraft of all kinds; transporting more than 1 million tons of weapons, ammunition, and logistics to support the battlefields; Transporting and organizing the march for more than 2 million soldiers and Party civil and military cadres to cross Truong Son to and from the battlefield. The creativity in organizing forces and creativity in combined arms operations of 9 divisions and 21 regiments under the Truong Son Army created a legendary Truong Son. 20 thousand heroic martyrs heroically sacrificed their lives on Truong Son, making their comrades who returned unable to forget.
Sing Truong Son songs together on the meeting day |
As the lucky ones who returned from the war, the Truong Son soldiers started to build the country, making great contributions in many fields, helping to heal the wounds of war, and build and develop the country.
Let's keep the memory of the day we met |
The meeting took place in a warm atmosphere of comradeship with nostalgic poems, songs that have been around for years, many good stories, many beautiful memories were told, reviving the youth of "Splitting Truong Son to save the country" even though today everyone's hair is gray. The Truong Son soldiers of the past - a generation that made the enemy terrified, the Truong Son members of today will continue to build and develop a strong Association, creating a great spiritual point for the next generations.
Source: https://baolamdong.vn/xa-hoi/202504/gap-mat-truyen-thong-bo-doi-truong-son-nhan-ky-niem-50-nam-dat-nuoc-thong-nhat-f3345d2/
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