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Dien Bien Phu was a serious defeat for the French and was the decisive battle of the Indochina war. [ 95 ] [ 96 ] [ 97 ] The garrison constituted roughly one-tenth of the total French Union manpower in Indochina, [ 98 ] and the defeat seriously weakened the position and prestige of the French; it produced psychological repercussions both in the ...
Operation Linebacker II, sometimes referred to as the Christmas bombings and, in Vietnam, Dien Bien Phu in the air, [a] was a strategic bombing campaign conducted by the United States against targets in North Vietnam from 18 December to 29 December 1972, during the Vietnam War.
Điện Biên Phủ (Vietnamese: [ɗîənˀ ɓīən fû] ⓘ, chữ Hán: 奠 邊 府) is a city in the northwestern region of Vietnam.It is the capital of Điện Biên Province.
Dien Bien Phu: Artilleurs dans la fournaise. Presses de la Cité, 1993; Bruge, Roger. Les hommes de Dien Bien Phu. Perrin, 1999; Fall, Bernard. Hell in a very small ...
Dien Bien Phu could be supplied only via airdrop, and dropping and retrieving supplies became difficult as Viet Minh artillery shrank the effective size of the drop zone. On 27 March, French Col. Jean-Louis Nicot, the officer in charge of the aerial resupply effort, had to raise the drop altitude from 2,000 feet to 8,000 feet. Drop zone ...
5 vua hề về làng (5 Comedian Kings Return to the Village) Lê Dân, Lê Hoàng Hoa, Lê Mộng Hoàng, Quốc Hưng, Thân Trọng Kỳ: Thành Được, La Thoại Tân, Thanh Nga, Thẩm Thúy Hằng, Thanh Việt: Comedy: The film was released during the Lunar New Year in February 1974 in South Vietnam with Chinese, English and French ...
In 1954, four of these divisions (the 308th, 304th, 312nd, 316th, supported by the 351st Division's captured US howitzers) defeated the French Union forces at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, ending 83 years of French rule in Indochina. The French Foreign Legion had been deployed to combat the Vietnamese insurgency during the First Indochina War.
Lt. Geneviève de Galard-Terraube (right) with Lucile Petry in 1954. Geneviève de Galard [1] (13 April 1925 – 30 May 2024) was a French nurse who was dubbed l'ange de Dien Bien Phu ("the Angel of Dien Bien Phu") during the French war in Indochina by the press in Hanoi, although in the camp she was known simply as Geneviève.