Following France’s fall to Germany in June 1940, the Japanese…
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1958: Lê Huy Toàn’s ‘SMOLEVSK’ Revelation
Colonel Lê Huy Toàn became one of Vietnam’s best-known wartime…
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1955: Northwest Countryside in Newly Liberated Vietnam
In the years that followed liberation from French colonial rule,…
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13 March-7 May 1954: The Battle of Điện Biên Phủ
Phạm Thanh Tâm recounts his experiences and roles as a…
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22 February-11 March 1954: Phạm Thanh Tâm’s Journey to Điện Biên Phủ
Phạm Thanh Tâm describes his march to Điện Biên Phủ…
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January-March 1954: Prelude to The Battle of Điện Biên Phủ
On 28 April 2018, Colonel Phạm Thanh Tâm, at eighty-six years…
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September 1950: MAAG Sent to Aid French Forces in Vietnam
An American Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG) was sent to…
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