Hoàng Văn Thái
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Hoàng Văn Thái, born Hoàng Văn Xiêm, was a Vietnamese Army General and a communist political figure. His hometown was Tây An, Tiền Hải District, Thái Bình Province. During the 1968 Tết Offensive, he w
Portrait of General Hoàng Văn Thái (1986)
The PAVN's establishment in 1944. Hoàng Văn Thái wearing a pith helmet and holding the flag.
First Indochina War
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The First Indochina War, known alternatively internationally as the French Indochina War or the Vietnamese War of Independence, was fought in French Indochina between France and the Communist-led Viet
Hoàng Văn Thái
…opened the campaign. Campaigns that Thai participated in as the Chief of General Staff (with Võ Nguyên Giáp playing the role of a commander) in the First Indochina War: Operation Léa, autumn-winter 1947…
Clockwise After the fall of Dien Bien Phu, supporting Laotian troops fall back across the Mekong River into Laos French Marine commandos wade ashore off the Annam coast in July 1950 M24 Chaffee American light tank used by the French in Vietnam Geneva Conference on 21 July 1954 A Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat from Escadrille 1F prepares to land on French aircraft carrier Arromanches operating in the Gulf of Tonkin
Indochine physique, 1930
June 1945 public ceremony in commemoration of the Yên Bái mutiny
Võ Nguyên Giáp and Ho Chi Minh (1945)