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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 . The city is best known for the decisive Battle of Điện Biên Phủ , which occurred during the First Indochina War of independence against France.
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 ...
Eventually, Dien Bien Phu surrendered on May 7, 1954, though Sassi's emergency column found rare Dien Bien Phu survivors who had escaped through the jungle, approximatively 150. [ 3 ] After the war, the military jury charged General Cogny—who ordered the Dien Bien Phu garrison to surrender from his base in Hanoi—for the operation's failure ...
The Rats of Nam Yum were internal deserters from the French forces at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu during the First Indochina War.. The "Rats" consisted of French, Foreign Legion, African, Vietnamese, and Thai tribal troops who were unable or unwilling to defect to the Viet Minh opposing the French, but reluctant to continue to fight as part of the French forces.
In early 1954, Bảo Đại offered Diệm the position of Prime Minister in the new government in Vietnam. In May 1954, the French surrendered at Điện Biên Phủ and the Geneva Conference began in April 1954. On 16 June 1954, Diệm met with Bảo Đại in France and agreed to be the Prime Minister if Bảo Đại would give him military ...
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.
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.
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.