sentences:  East Sea Campaign
  
  The East Sea Campaign was a naval operation which took place during the closing days of the Vietnam War in April 1975.Even though it had no significant impact on the final outcome of the war, the capture of certain South Vietnamese-held Spratly Islands ("") in the South China Sea (referred to by the Vietnamese as the "East Sea"), and other islands on the southeastern coast of Vietnam by the Vietnam People's Navy (VPN) and the Viet Cong helped the Socialist Republic of Vietnam assert its sovereignty over the various groups of islands after the reunification of the country in 1975.