Title
VIETNAM - BATAILLE DE DIEN BIEN PHU
Caption
Vietnam. Indochina. Dien Bien Phu. Former Vietminh soldier, with its typical latanier leaf helmet, visiting General de Castrie's GHQ, fell 50 years earlier, on May 7, 1954. Launched on March 13, the attack on the French entrenched camp had mobilized divisions 304, 320, 308, 312, 315, 316 and 325 of the Viet-Minh battle corps. Surrounded in the basin, French troops had resisted General Giap's North Vietnamese offensive for fifty-seven days. At the beginning of April, there were only 6,300 able-bodied fighters left among the colonial troops. In less than two months, the battle cost the lives of more than 3,000 French soldiers and around 20,000 Vietnamese.
ASIA, VIETNAM, INDOCHINA WAR, INDOCHINESE, BATTLEFIELD, FRENCH DEFEAT, ARMY, SOLDIER, MILITARY, HISTORY, HERITAGE, MEMORIAL, TOURIST SITE, PLACE OF MEMORY, VIETMINH VICTORY, VIETNAMESE INDEPENDENCE, COMMUNISM, COMMUNIST, VETERAN
Date
Apr 26, 2004
Credit line
Marc Charuel/Photo12
Reference
MHC25A00_037
Model release
No
License type
Rights managed
Available size
16,9Mb (434,7Kb) / 10,0in x 6,5in / 3008 x 1960 (300dpi)