Images of the Dien Bien Phu campaign declassified by the French Ministry of Defense
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Precious images of the "Dien Bien Phu - a golden history" campaign. Many of these are archived documents that were declassified by the French Ministry of Defense in 2016 and published in Vietnam.
President Ho Chi Minh chaired a meeting to discuss the Dien Bien Phu campaign, December 1953.
The General Command met to discuss plans and strategies to destroy the Dien Bien Phu stronghold, early 1954.
Troops marched to the Northwest in 1954.
The 105mm cannons weighing over 2 tons were pulled over steep and bumpy passes to the position waiting to fire.
The soldiers happily chatted in the trenches before going into battle.
Military medical staff care for and treat wounded soldiers.
A unit raised the flag of determination to fight and win to capture Muong Thanh bridge.
The troops captured the French tank, all the soldiers on the tank surrendered.
The Viet Minh soldiers' flag of determination to fight and win flew on the roof of General De Castries' bunker on the afternoon of May 7, 1954.
General De Castries and his commanders were captured alive.
(Baonghean.vn) - During the resistance war against French colonialism, many young people volunteered to join the army. In Do Luong, nearly 100 people directly participated in the Dien Bien Phu Campaign. There were families where several brothers participated in the campaign; including the three brothers Hoang Ngoc Nhan, Hoang Dinh Thuyet, and Hoang Dinh Thao in Lac Son commune.
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