(Baonghean.vn) - More than twenty thousand bicycles were used by frontline workers to carry thousands of tons of weapons, food and necessities over hundreds of kilometers to supply the frontline.
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| In the Dien Bien Phu victory that “resounded throughout the five continents and shook the world”, it is impossible not to mention the contribution of the frontline workers with their bicycles carrying thousands of tons of food to the battlefield. Photo: Source baodautu.vn |
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| About 20,991 were used in the campaign. The bicycles weighed about 15 kg and were initially only able to carry about 100 kg of rice. The militia later increased the load to 200 to over 300 kg. Photo: Source archives.gov.vn |
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| No French person at that time could have imagined that a bicycle produced by themselves, when reinforced from the rim, inner tube, tire, spokes to the handlebars, would become a vehicle with such a formidable carrying capacity. Photo: Source nld.com |
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| Bicycle soldier Cao Van Ty achieved a productivity of 325kg serving the Dien Bien Phu campaign. Photo: Source baotang.thanhhoa.gov.vn |
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| In Nghe An, a convoy of two thousand vehicles set out on a mission to supply the battlefield from the first day of the Lunar New Year (1954). With a distance of about 600-700km, crossing many high passes and deep streams such as Truong Bang, Khe Than, Chuong Chuoi, Nho Quan... extremely dangerous, but everyone enthusiastically volunteered to transport supplies. Illustrative photo, source baodautu.vn |
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| Bicycles were considered the most powerful army among the means of transport serving the Dien Bien Phu campaign. Photo: Source baogiaothong.vn |
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| The bicycle used in the Dien Bien Phu campaign once amazed the world because it was a symbol of creativity and the strength of people's war, of the entire people, of the whole world. Photo: Nguon 24h.com |
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