Dien Bien Phu victory – a golden page in Photo: VNA The Dien Bien Phu Victory on May 7, 1954, which ended French colonial rule in In 1947, one year after the launch of the Nationwide Resistance War by President Ho Chi Minh, the French colonialists became aware of the special importance of the region north of General Henri Navarre, Commander-in-Chief of the French forces in Indochina, decided to focus the defence of Dien Bien Phu was a complex of strong fortresses with 16,200 French troops, the most seasoned in The Party Committee of the Vietnamese army held that only when the Dien Bien Phu fortifications are crushed will A conference on the combat plans was organised by the Command of the Dien Bien Phu Campaign right on the battlefield. General Vo Nguyen Giap, Commander-in-Chief of the Vietnamese People’s Army and Commander of the Campaign, presented the plans and entrusted tasks to officers. At 5:00 pm on March 13, 1954, the Vietnamese army fired the first shots to kick off the Dien Bien Phu Campaign. In an attack on Him Lam (Beatrice) fortifications during the first minutes of the battle, On the first day of the campaign, the Vietnamese army annihilated 300 enemy troops and captured 200 others. From March 14-17, it wiped out the two most fortified camps of the enemy and disintegrated a French battalion. The French troops in Ban Keo raised a white flag to surrender. The northern gate of the centre of the In the midst of victory, the Vietnamese army continued to launch the second attack on the enemy’s five eastern key defence heights. They fought days and nights, pushing the enemy into a difficult situation. This time, in a base north of The Vietnamese army’s assaults forced French and US representatives to sit at a roundtable meeting in At 3:00 pm on May 7, 1954, the Vietnamese army launched a massive attack on the headquarters of General Christian De Castries. The French commander at The victory was a vivid manifestation of the gigantic growth of the Vietnamese army. The ten-year-old force, led by General Vo Nguyen Giap, created an everlasting epic of Vietnamese brainpower and stuff.-VNA |
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