Viet Minh

...reiterating the view that Tiến designed the flag. The flag was displayed a conference on May 19, 1941 at which the Vietminh was founded. The Vietminh proclaimed its flag a "national flag" on August 18, 1945 at a meeting held in the village...

In this article: Vietminh, Vietnam, North Vietnam, Chinese Communist Party, Geneva Accords, Hanoi, Soviet Union, and Ministry of Culture

...Muong Khoua village overheard barking dogs-one of which yelped-alerting the French to an impending Viet Minh attack. By 23:00, the Viet Minh were visible in the fog, and the patrol returned to the Mousetrap. Teullier issued an alert via...

In this article: Bernard Fall, Laos, and Dien Bien Phu

...by contrast, dated from 1954. On their way out, the French created it as a fig leaf to cover their defeat by the communist-dominated Vietminh. South Vietnam was supposed to exist as an independent country for exactly two years until...

In this article: Vietnam, Afghanistan, Frank Rich, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Arthur Schlesinger, Hamid Karzai, and Peter Beinart

...1947 during the First Indochina War. It was an attempt by the French General Valluy to crush the Viet Minh. An airborne force would capture the Viet Minh leadership and three French columns would strike into the Viet Minh heartland. The...

In this article: Ho Chi Minh, Operation Lea, French Union, Bac Can, Yen Bai, Cao Bang, Vo Nguyen Giap, and Jean-Etienne Valluy

...II. The MNLA employed pretty much the same kind of guerrilla tactics used simultaneously by the Viet Minh against the French, and like the Viet Minh the MNLA was successful, at least initially. By 1951 the MNLA controlled a substantial number...

In this article: Afghanistan, Taliban, Al Qaeda, Iraq, World War II, Gerald Templer, David Petraeus, Vietnam, and U.S.

...only peril for pedestrians on Dong Khoi. But once life was more dangerous. A couple of decades after Maugham's Indochine sojourn, the Viet Minh were locked in mortal combat with the French, and Greene, too, was seduced by the edgy charms...

In this article: Ho Chi Minh City, Somerset Maugham, Graham Greene, Caravelle Hotel, Saigon River, Vietnam, and Mekong

...pressure. Each time, French forces relied upon artillery and close air support to inflict damages on the Viet Minh. On 30 January, the Viet Minh went back on the offensive at Suc Sich, where they battled with a company from the 8th Colonial...

In this article: French Union, Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, Vo Nguyen Giap, Battle of Hoa Binh, and Hanoi

...from March 23 to March 28, 1951, was a significant engagement in the First Indochina War between the French Union and the Viet Minh. The French Union forces, led by World War II hero Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, inflicted a defeat on...

In this article: Vo Nguyen Giap, Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, French Union, Coal, Battle of Mao Khe, Haiphong, Battle of Vinh Yen, World War II, and First Indochina War

To Vinh Dien (died 1954) was a soldier in the Viet Minh during the First Indochina War against France in Vietnam. To Vinh Dien was proclaimed a national hero by the Viet Minh after his death in the period leading up to the Battle of Dien...

In this article: Vinh, Battle of Dien Bien Phu, First Indochina War, Vo Nguyen Giap, Dien Bien Phu, Vietnam, and France

...the New Yorker published a profile of him in 2005. Born in Hai Duong, Mr. Pham dropped out of high school in 1945 to enlist in the Viet Minh, which fought for Vietnam's independence from France. After a short time, he left for Saigon,...

In this article: Pham Xuan An, Stanley Karnow, Viet Cong, United States, Vietnam, Pentagon, and CIA