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Unit Commander Position; 1st Battalion/13th Foreign Legion Demi-Brigade (1/13 DBLE) Major de Brinon/Major Robert Coutant: Claudine 3rd Battalion/13th Foreign Legion Demi-Brigade (3/13 DBLE) Major Paul Pégot: Béatrice 1st Battalion/2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment (1/2 REI) Major Clémençon: Huguette 3rd Battalion/3rd Foreign Infantry Regiment ...
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 ...
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
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 ...
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
War veterans, party leaders and diplomats gathered in Vietnam's Dien Bien Phu province on Tuesday for an event to mark the 70th anniversary of the country's victory over French colonial forces.
On November 21, 1953; the reconstituted 1 er BEP is parachuted on Dien Bien Phu. [1] In this gigantic battle, the reconstituted (1 er BEP, II formation) 1 er BEP counts 575 killed and missing for the second time in a traditional Foreign Legion battlefield . [ 1 ]
This article lists the principal units of the Foreign Legion in the French Army created since 1831. Legion units are only cited once, based on their respective dates of creation. A dissolved Legion unit which is recreated under the same designation will only appear once. The last section of the list re-summarizes actual Legion units in service.