On April 5, 1975, in accordance with the Politburo 's decision to liberate the South before the rainy season, the Coastal Army Corps, comprising the 2nd Corps and the 3rd Division of Military Region 5, was established. The Truong Son troops concentrated their forces and urgently transported troops and supplies to the South.
On April 5, 1975, in accordance with the Politburo 's decision to liberate the South before the rainy season, the Coastal Army Corps, comprising the 2nd Corps and the 3rd Division of Military Region 5, was established.
Lieutenant General Le Trong Tan, Deputy Chief of the General Staff, was appointed Commander. Lieutenant General Le Quang Hoa, Deputy Head of the General Political Department, was appointed Political Commissar. Lieutenant General Dong Sy Nguyen, Commander of the Truong Son Army Corps, was appointed Deputy Commander directly in charge of ensuring roads, bridges, and logistics for this army corps.
The Standing Committee of the Central Military Commission also decided to reinforce the Coastal Army - the eastern flank - with the 325th and 304th Divisions and several artillery, tank, anti-aircraft, and engineering units.
On the same day, April 5, 1975, at the operational command headquarters of the 2nd Army Corps in Hoa Khanh, comrades Le Trong Tan and Le Quang Hoa assigned tasks to the units of the Corps to urgently complete the organization of the march so that the leading contingent could depart on April 7, 1975.
Meanwhile, on April 5, 1975, the 312th Division of the 1st Corps marched into the Ministry's traffic control station in Dong Ha (Quang Tri). There, the Division received orders to continue its mechanized march along the Western Truong Son mountain range into the southeastern region to participate in the campaign to liberate Saigon.
In Can Tho, on April 5, 1975, the 10th Regiment and the Tay Do Battalion of Can Tho province used mortars to attack the headquarters of the 11th Division of the Republic of Vietnam Army and launched a second attack on the One Thousand military zone.
On the same day, April 5, 1975, the first transport flight bearing the Liberation Army insignia from the North landed at Phu Bai Airport (Hue), and two days later it landed in Da Nang, marking the beginning of the Hanoi-Hue and Hanoi-Da Nang air routes and the organization of flights from Da Nang to newly liberated airports in the Central Highlands.
Amidst the nationwide mobilization for the war effort, the entire transport force of 12,000 personnel and 6,300 transport vehicles of the Truong Son Army Command; more than 2,100 vehicles of the Transport Department of the General Logistics Department; and hundreds of vehicles from various military regions, corps, and branches were mobilized to transport troops and supplies to support the campaign to liberate Saigon-Gia Dinh.
By April 1975, units under the Truong Son Command had brought more than 115,000 troops and 90,000 tons of supplies to Southern Vietnam, including 37,000 tons of weapons and 9,000 tons of fuel.
On the same day, the Saigon government decided to reinforce the "Phan Rang steel shield" with a paratrooper brigade, a commando regiment, and several armored units to try and hold onto the remaining territory.
At the same time, Thieu appointed the Chairman of the House of Representatives, Nguyen Ba Can, to the position of Prime Minister, replacing Tran Thien Khiem. To enhance the prestige of the South Vietnamese army, two large American aircraft carriers from the Pacific Fleet conducted patrols as a show of force in the waters off southern Vietnam. President G. Ford decided to begin evacuating American families and personnel back home.
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