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Turning Point admirably points to the pejorative nature of the term “Viet Cong” to refer to the National Liberation Front, but it is less successful in clarifying for viewers that the NLF was comprised of southern Vietnamese.

“I’m gonna go to Vietnam/I’m gonna kill some Viet Cong,” he half sings.

Bowman was a “tunnel rat” sent as point man into the Viet Cong’s network of tunnels.

Dang Xuan Teo, one of several former North Vietnamese soldiers and Viet Cong interviewed in the docuseries, recalls how he disguised himself as a shoeshine boy to scout details for an attack on the U.S.

Huan Nguyen watched as his entire family was slaughtered by the Viet Cong; later, after a Viet Cong captain was assassinated in the streets — captured in Eddie Adams’ famous photo — he was told by the killer that this captain was responsible for the massacre of his family.