Zone 5 Military Museum, Danang
Bao Tang Quan Khu 5 | |
 Entrance to Zone 5 Military Museum | |
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| Location | 3 Duy Tân, Da Nang, Vietnam |
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| Coordinates | 16°02′55″N 108°13′04″E / 16.0487°N 108.2177°E |
| Type | Military museum |
| Owner | Government of Vietnam |
The Zone 5 Military Museum (Bao Tang Khu 5) is a military museum located at 3 Duy Tân, Da Nang, Vietnam. It covers all Vietnamese resistance to foreign occupation from the Chinese occupation, the First Indochina War with the French, the Vietnam War and the current standoff with China over the Spratly Islands and the Paracel Islands.
The Museum's opening hours are from 07:30 to 10:30 and from 13:30 to 16:30 daily except Monday. Admission is free for Vietnamese and VND 60,000 for non-Vietnamese, plus VND 10,000 to take photos.[1][2]
Exhibits
The museum complex comprises four main sections: an outdoor display of large military equipment; a military museum; a reproduction of Ho Chi Minh's house in Hanoi; and a Ho Chi Minh Museum.[3]
Outdoor display
Items on display:
- 100 mm field gun M1944 (BS-3) produced in Soviet Union
- Cessna A-37 Dragonfly 10793 light aircraft captured at Da Nang Air Base on March 29, 1975 and later used in the Bombing of Tan Son Nhut Air Base[4]
- An Lão Districtin 2006
- Soviet-built Bulldozers (2)
- Cessna O-1 Bird Dog 042 captured in 1975 and subsequently used in the early stages of the Cambodian–Vietnamese War
- M8 Greyhound armoured car captured from Groupe Mobile 100 in the Battle of Mang Yang Pass
- M-46 130mm towed field gun
- M41 tank used by the ARVN 14th Armored Cavalry Regiment and captured at Tân Cảnh during the Battle of Kontum in May 1972
- M48A3 Patton tank used by the ARVN 1st Cavalry Brigade and captured at Da Nang on March 29, 1975
- Bình Định Provincein 1972
- M102 howitzer captured in April 1975
- M107 self-propelled gun captured at Da Nang in March 1975
- M113 armored personnel carrier captured in 1975 and subsequently used in the Cambodian–Vietnamese War
- M114 155 mm howitzer captured in 1954 in the Battle of Mang Yang Pass
- Minh Long Districtin 1974
- Tiên Phước Districton 17 March 1975
- M1943 160mm mortarused by PAVN Regiment 576 to attack the ARVN base in Minh Long District in 1974
- M578 Light Recovery Vehiclecaptured in 1975
- Nguyen Van Nghia to shoot down a US McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom IIover Bac Thai in 1972
- MiG-21 5127 of the VPAF 931st Regiment used by Le Khuong
- P-15 Termit antiship missile
- Bình Thuận Provincein 1953
- SA-2Guideline SAM, used by Regiment 275, Air Defence Division 375
- T34/85 tank used in Operation Lam Son 719
- Toyota pickup mounting a recoilless rifle captured in the Cambodian-Vietnamese War
- Bell UH-1 Iroquois helicopter 69-15130 captured in 1975 and subsequently used in the Cambodian–Vietnamese War
- ZIL-157 general purpose truck
Military Museum
Displays include:
- Memorials to Ho Chi Minh and Võ Nguyên Giáp
- Memorials to the leaders and heroes of the Zone 5 Military
- Memorials to mothers whose only children or multiple children were killed during the Vietnam War
- Photographic display of Vietnam's historic claims to the Trường Sa (Spratley) and Hoàng Sa (Paracel) Islands
- Opposition to the French in Nha Trang in October 1946
- The Battle of Mang Yang Pass
- Battle of Ba Gia
- Operation Starlite
- Battle of Ia Drang
- Hue–Da Nang Campaign
- Operations against FULRO
Gallery
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M48A3 tank -
M41 tank -
L-19 042 Bird Dog -
M102 howitzer -
M107 self-propelled gun
See also
References
- ^ "Military Zone 5 branch of the Ho Chi Minh Museum and the Military Museum". Danang Today. 22 May 2013. Archived from the original on 11 October 2014. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
- ^ "Ho Chi Minh Museum and Military Zone No 5 Museum". Danang City Government. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
- Quân Đội Nhân Dân(in Vietnamese). Retrieved 2021-10-19.
- ^ Chiến Xa (26 April 2020). "Tường tận "cánh quân thứ 6" tham gia giải phóng Sài Gòn". Dân Việt (in Vietnamese). Retrieved 2021-10-19.
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