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Unit Commander; 1st Foreign Parachute Battalion ... 2nd Platoon/5th Foreign Legion Medium Repair Company ... Rocolle, Pierre. Pourquoi Dien Bien Phu. Flammarion, 1968;
Dien Bien Phu was a serious defeat for the French and was the decisive battle of the Indochina war. [ 95 ] [ 96 ] [ 97 ] The garrison constituted roughly one-tenth of the total French Union manpower in Indochina, [ 98 ] and the defeat seriously weakened the position and prestige of the French; it produced psychological repercussions both in the ...
The unit suffered heavy casualties during fighting in March and April. On 14 April the Dien Bien Phu garrison reported that I/13 e DBLE was reduced to 354 effectives and III/13 e DBLE was reduced to 80 effectives. [13] On 30 April, the legionnaires at Dien Bien Phu celebrated the anniversary of the Legion's historic Battle of Camarón (French ...
Devil's Guard is a book by George Robert Elford and was published in 1971. The book depicts the story of a former German Waffen-SS officer's string of near-constant combat that begins on World War II's eastern front and continues into the book's focus — the First Indochina War-as an officer in the French Foreign Legion.
The French Foreign Legion (French: Légion étrangère, also known simply as la Légion, "the Legion") is a corps of the French Army created to allow foreign nationals into French service. [8] The Legion was founded in 1831 and today consists of several specialties, namely infantry , cavalry , engineers , and airborne troops . [ 9 ]
Foreign Legion Units Involved: Battle of Dien Bien Phu: Dien Bien Phu, French Indochina: Defeat 13th Foreign Legion Demi-Brigade 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment 3rd Foreign Infantry Regiment: November 20–23, 1953 Operation Castor: Dien Bien Phu, French Indochina: French Union Victory 1st Foreign Parachute Battalion
25 April 1954: At Dien Bien Phu, the 1er BEP is destroyed as a fighting unit and along with the remnants of the 2ème BEP forms the Foreign Parachute Battalion de Marche (French: Bataillon de Marche Étranger de Parachutistes, or BMEP) 7 May 1954: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends, and the battalion's survivors become prisoners of the Việt Minh
A number of the French units involved in Mouette would go on to serve at Dien Bien Phu, particularly the 1st Parachute Chasseur Regiment [11] and the 13th Foreign Legion Demi-Brigade. [9] Both de Castries and Gilles would also serve there, the former commanding the troops on the ground following the initial occupation by paratroopers under the ...