Zone 5 Military Museum, Danang

Zone 5 Military Museum
Bao Tang Quan Khu 5
	Entrance to Zone 5 Military Museum
Location	3 Duy Tân, Da Nang, Vietnam
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]
BLU-82 "Daisy Cutter" bomb recovered from An Lão District in 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
M101 howitzer (2) captured in Bình Định Province in 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
M1938 122mm howitzer used by People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) Brigade 52 to attack the ARVN base in Minh Long District in 1974
M1939 37mm anti-aircraft gun used by PAVN Regiment 573 it apparently shot down an A-37 in Tiên Phước District on 17 March 1975
M1943 160mm mortar used by PAVN Regiment 576 to attack the ARVN base in Minh Long District in 1974
M578 Light Recovery Vehicle captured in 1975
MiG-21 5114 of the VPAF 931st Regiment used by Nguyen Van Nghia to shoot down a US McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II over Bac Thai in 1972
MiG-21 5127 of the VPAF 931st Regiment used by Le Khuong
P-15 Termit antiship missile
QF 3.7-inch mountain howitzer captured from the French in Bình Thuận Province in 1953
SA-2 Guideline 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