Southeastern Armed Forces Museum Military Zone 7

Southeastern Armed Forces Museum Military Zone 7
	Museum main building
Established	5 February 1988
Location	247 Hoang Van Thu Street, Tan Binh District, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Coordinates	10.8°N 106.666°E
Type	Military museum
Director	Colonel Nguyen Duy Thieu
Owner	Government of Vietnam

The Southeastern Armed Forces Museum Military Zone 7 is a military museum located at 247 Hoang Van Thu Street, Tan Banh District, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It covers all Vietnamese resistance to foreign occupation from the Chinese occupation, the First Indochina War and the Vietnam War and the Cambodian–Vietnamese War.

The Museum's opening hours are from 07:30 to 11:30 and from 13:00 to 16:30 daily except Monday. Admission is free for Vietnamese and 40,000 VND for non-Vietnamese, plus VND 10,000 to take photos.

History

The museum was established on 5 February 1988[1] on the site of the former U.S. 3rd Field Hospital and is diagonally opposite the former ARVN Joint General Staff compound, now the headquarters of 7th Military Region (Vietnam People's Army).

The buildings were originally built for the American Community School in Saigon in 1958/9, however when US dependents were ordered to leave South Vietnam in February 1965, the vacated buildings became available for use by the 3rd Field Hospital. The hospital was conveniently located near to Tan Son Nhut Air Base allowing for transfer of casualties within South Vietnam and the medical evacuation of casualties to other US hospital facilities in the Pacific.[2]

Exhibits

The museum comprises two main sections: an outdoor display of large military equipment and a military museum.

Outdoor display

M48

Items on display comprise:

M-30 122mm howitzer
M41 tank
M48A3 tank
M107 Self-Propelled Gun
M113 armoured personnel carrier
M114 155 mm howitzer
T-54 tank
model of the Tet Offensive attack on the U.S. Embassy

Military Museum

Displays include:

memorials to the leaders and heroes of the Zone 7 Military
model of several rooms in the Cu Chi Tunnels

References

"Southeastern Armed Forces Museum marks 25th anniversary". Voice of Vietnam. 30 January 2013. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
Wettlaufer, John Nichols; Weigel, John W. (2005). Urology in the Vietnam War: Casualty Management and Lessons Learned (PDF). Washington, DC: The Borden Institute, U.S. Army Medical Department. p. 11.

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[1] "Southeastern Armed Forces Museum marks 25th anniversary". Voice of Vietnam. 30 January 2013. Retrieved 1 October 2014.

[2] Wettlaufer, John Nichols; Weigel, John W. (2005). Urology in the Vietnam War: Casualty Management and Lessons Learned (PDF). Washington, DC: The Borden Institute, U.S. Army Medical Department. p. 11.