Collectors of military memorabilia often focus on specific periods of history such as the Civil War, WWI, WWII and the Korean conflict. For new collectors and even long-time collectors, the Vietnam War period offers many opportunities to build extensive military collections. One of the reasons this is still possible is that over 6 million American Vietnam veterans still living in the United States often still have a variety of “bring back” items after serving in the Vietnam War, which lasted from 1955 until the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975.
Being one of the largest conflicts of the Cold War era, the Vietnam War was officially fought between North and South Vietnam. Since the Soviet Union, China, and other communist states supported the North, the South was supported by the United States and other anti-communist Allies, resulting in a proxy war between the Soviet Union and the United States. Even this writer often focused on other areas of military collecting, but was made aware of the large potential of collecting
