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[citation needed] After suffering a major defeat at Dien Bien Phu on May 7, 1954, France lost control of Viet Nam above latitude 17 degrees north; this came to be the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam. Soviet- and Chinese-made weapons and captured American ones given to the North Vietnamese army by China played a key role in the defeat of France.
At Dien Bien Phu, the French lost the only source of "legitimation" on which their presence turned, that is the right of the strongest [to rule the weakest]. [ 114 ] Unmarked Vought AU-1 Corsair fighters on the deck of the U.S. Navy light aircraft carrier USS Saipan (CVL-48) in the South China Sea, in 1954.
The French Far East Expeditionary Corps (French: Corps Expéditionnaire Français en Extrême-Orient, CEFEO) was a colonial expeditionary force of the French Union Army that was initially formed in French Indochina in 1945 during the Pacific War. The CEFEO later fought and lost in the First Indochina War against the Viet Minh rebels.
Operation Name Unit(s) – Description Location VC–PAVN KIAs Allied KIAs 68: Operation Keepout [1] USAF operation to sow anti-personnel mines "Parrot's Beak" area Svay Rieng Province, Cambodia: 68: Operation Leap Frog [2] Systematic canvassing of the opinions of senior ARVN officers by U.S. military intelligence on likely Vietcong actions: 68 ...
83rd mortar battalion. AAA Regiment 367 (less) Le Van Tri. 2 AAA battalions (12 M1939 37mm AA guns each) Heavy Weapon Regiment 237. Mortar battalion 413 (54 M-37 82mm mortars) H6 rocket battalion (12 Chinese six-barrel 75 mm H6 rocket launchers) 75 mm recoilless gun battalion. Engineer Regiment 151.
The postal code system of Vietnam has officially been changed from 6 digits to 5 digits. Each country has its own separate postal code or zip code system. The postal code of Vietnam is composed of 5 digits, with the following meanings: [ 2 ][ 3 ] The first digit determines the area code. The first two characters identify the centrally-governed ...
215. ISO 3166 code. VN-71. Website. www.dienbien.gov.vn. Điện Biên 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. The province covers an area of about 9,540 km 2 (3,683 sq mi) [1 ...
Operation Castor[ a ] was a French airborne operation in the First Indochina War. The operation established a fortified airhead in Điện Biên Province, in the north-west corner of Vietnam and was commanded by Brigadier General Jean Gilles. The Operation began at 10:35 on 20 November 1953, with reinforcements dropped over the following two days.