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Valley of the Shadow: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu. Oxford: Osprey Press. ISBN 978-1472824370. Davidson, Phillip (1988). Vietnam at War: The History, 1946–1975. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-506792-4. "Ðiên Biên Phú – The "official and historical site" of the battle". Archived from the original on 5 December 2006
Title: Lao Ha Yen, Thanh Dong Bien Gioi Alias: Dong Trieu Le Thuy Infantry battalions 115, 542, 564 Infantry regiment 209 Title: Song Lo Hoang Cam Infantry battalions 130, 154, 166 Division 316 Alias: Biên Hòa Colonel Le Quang Ba Commissar Chu Huy Man Infantry regiment 98 Vu Lang Infantry battalions 215, 439, 938 Infantry regiment 174
The following year, the important Battle of Điện Biên Phủ was fought between the Việt Minh (led by General Võ Nguyên Giáp), and the French Union (led by General Henri Navarre, successor to General Raoul Salan). The siege of the French garrison lasted fifty-seven days, from 17:30, 13 March to 17:30, 7 May 1954.
Tân Hiệp is a ward located in Biên Hòa city of Đồng Nai province, Vietnam. [1] It has an area of about 3.4km2 and the population in 2017 was 41,719. [2] Đồng Nai stadium, Dong Nai University and Lương Thế Vinh High School for the Gifted located in Tân Hiệp ward.
Diên Biên Phu (French for Điện Biên Phủ) is a French 1992 epic war film written and directed by French veteran Pierre Schoendoerffer.With its huge budget, all-star cast, and realistic war scenes produced with the cooperation of both the French and Vietnamese armed forces, Dîen Bîen Phu is regarded by many as one of the more important war movies produced in French filmmaking history.
Nhất Chi Mai (February 20, 1934 – May 16, 1967), born Phan Thị Mai and legally named Thích nữ Diệu Huỳnh, was a Buddhist nun who killed herself in an act of self-immolation in Saigon on May 16, 1967, in protest at the Vietnam War.
The provinces of Vietnam are subdivided into second-level administrative units, namely districts (Vietnamese: huyện), provincial cities (thành phố trực thuộc tỉnh), and district-level towns (thị xã).
Điện Biên (chữ Hán: 奠 邊) is a province in the Northwest region of Vietnam.It is bordered by Lai Châu to the northeast, Sơn La to the southeast, Pu'er City, Yunnan, China, to the northwest, and Phongsaly province in Laos to the west.