Lý Tòng Bá (14 November 1931, in Long Xuyên – 22 February 2015, in Las Vegas, Nevada) was a major general of the South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam.
Suddenly VC appeared all around the M113s some firing automatic weapons and rifles and others running wildly in an attempt to evade the armored vehicles.
As the M113s scattered the VC the ARVN soldiers on board fired from open roof hatches and with the mounted M2 Browning machine guns.
[3]: 25–7 [4] In the early 1960s the ARVN cavalry forces were regarded as an important factor in upholding or overthrowing any South Vietnamese government, having been used to suppress at least three coup attempts.
Diem also limited fuel allocations so that armored units could not reach Saigon and Bá had to telephone the Independence Palace frequently to report his location.
Despite these precautions armored units joined the November 1963 South Vietnamese coup d'état and Diem and his brother Ngô Đình Nhu would be executed in a 4th Squadron, 4th Cavalry M113.
[6] During the Easter Offensive of 1972, he commanded the 23rd Division and together with Vann successfully defended Kontum against the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) attack.