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They fell back to the safer Pleiku where they reorganized and re-equipped with the help of 'Groupement Mobile No. 42' (GM.42). [2] On June 29, the French headquarters in the coastal town of Nha Trang had received intelligence that the Viet Minh had infiltrated the area along Route Coloniale 14 between Pleiku and Ban Mê Thuột.
Seven Mobile Groups (Groupes Mobiles) were deployed with river and amphibious units; tank units (largely the M24 Chaffee); half-tracks and paratroopers at designated landing sites, after counter-intelligence misled the Viet Minh into defending the wrong locations. [1]: 221 GM 2 and GM 3 took Lai Cac and established a camp. The night of 18 ...
The Việt Minh (Vietnamese: [vîət mīŋ̟] ⓘ, chữ Hán: 越盟) is the common and abbreviated name of the League for Independence of Vietnam (Vietnamese: Việt Nam Độc lập Đồng minh [1] or Việt Nam Độc lập Đồng minh Hội, chữ Hán: 越南獨立同盟(會); French: Ligue pour l'indépendance du Viêt Nam), which was a communist-led national independence coalition ...
The provinces of Vietnam are subdivided into second-level administrative units, namely districts (Vietnamese: huyện), provincial cities (thành phố trực thuộc tỉnh), and district-level towns (thị xã).
In this Battle of Mạo Khê the Việt Minh were beaten back by determined resistance from the French garrisons, airstrikes and naval gunfire. Total Việt Minh losses exceeded 1500 killed. [1]: 114 The battered 308th played a minor role in the Battle of the Day River in May/June 1951, making diversionary attacks on Ninh Bình and Phủ Lý.
The Viet Minh suffered approximately 25,000 casualties over the course of the battle, with as many as 10,000 Viet Minh personnel having been killed in the battle. The French prisoners taken at Điện Biên Phủ were the greatest number the Việt Minh had ever captured: one-third of the total captured during the entire war.
At the road marker 'Kilometer 15' the column was ambushed by Việt Minh troops belonging to the 803rd Regiment and suffered heavy losses. The remains of G.M. 100 managed to break through the ambush. [3] The remnants of G.M. 100, now with G.M. 42 and the 1st Airborne Group, had to drive through 30 kilometres (19 mi) of Viet Minh controlled road.
Ho Chi Minh Campaign Museum is located at 2 Le Duan Boulevard, District 1 in central Saigon. It commemorates the Ho Chi Minh Campaign that led to the fall of South Vietnam . Items on display include a 57 mm AZP S-60 antiaircraft gun, F-5 A Freedom Fighter, M-46 130mm cannon, M113 armoured personnel carrier , SA-2 Guideline SAM, T-54 tank, ZIL ...