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    British and American missions visited Diên Biên Phu to complete an assessment, and then left. The fall of Diên Biên Phu was a disaster not just for France...
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  • siege at Dien Bien Phu, director Schoendoerffer published a behind-the-scenes book called "Diên Biên Phu - De la Bataille au Film" (Dien Bien Phu: From the...
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    private businessman. The Battle of Dien Bien Phu (French: Bataille de Diên Biên Phu; Vietnamese: Chiến dịch Điện Biên Phủ) was the climactic battle of the...
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    1954–2004: La Bataille de Dien Bien Phu, entre Histoire et Mémoire, Société française d'histoire d'outre-mer, 2004 Ban tổng kết-biên soạn lịch sử, BTTM...
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  • Maurice Schmitt (category École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr alumni)
    the marshal: legend or reality), Presses de la Cité, 1996 De Diên Biên Phu à Koweït City (From Dien Bien Phu to Kuwait City), Grasset, 1992 « Torture :...
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    2018-05-27. Jean-Jacques Arzalier, Les Pertes Humaines, 1954–2004: La Bataille de Dien Bien Phu, entre Histoire et Mémoire, Société française d'histoire d'outre-mer...
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    Pierre Schoendoerffer (category Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winners)
    L'Aile du papillon (The Butterfly Wing) 1994: Diên Biên Phu, 1954/1992 De la Bataille au Film (Dien Bien Phu: 1954–1992 From the battle to the movie) — based...
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    April, the legionnaires at Dien Bien Phu celebrated the anniversary of the Legion's historic Battle of Camarón (French: Bataille de Camerone). The celebration...
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    defense became standard practice, and was applied on a larger scale at Điện Biên Phủ. The French hoped that by repeating the strategy on a much larger scale...
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    Bourgois, 1994. La Bataille de Dien Bien Phu, Julliard, 1963 ; Albin Michel, 1989. Le Voyage en Chine, Julliard, 1965. La Mort de Mao, Christian Bourgois...
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    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...
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    Battle of Dien Bien Phu. New York: Carroll and Graf Publishers. ISBN 978-0-7867-0958-8. Windrow, Martin (2011). The Last Valley Dien Bien Phu and the French...
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    the regiment was still engaged in combat at Đông Khê, Bac Khan and Điện Biên Phủ in 1954. The regiment had already lost the equivalent of five battalions...
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  • André Lalande (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France))
    Foreign Infantry Regiment 3e REI and participated to the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954. He was responsible then for the support point "Isabelle". Lalande...
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    principles were clearly identifiable in those used by the Việt Minh at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. His defensive fortifications dated far more quickly, partly...
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  • mortar company of the 1st Foreign Parachute Battalion at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu. He was taken prisoner and experienced the hell of the Viet Minh internment...
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    The Legion lost a large number of men in the catastrophic Battle of Dien Bien Phu against forces of the Viet Minh. Subsequent military campaigns included...
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    Battle of Camarón (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
    The Battle of Camarón (French: Bataille de Camerone) which occurred over ten hours: 21  on 30 April 1863 between the Foreign Legion of the French Army...
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    in October 1952 and then Langson, in July 1953. The 6th para engaged Dien Bien Phu twice. On November 20, 1953, the 6th, parachuted during Operation Castor...
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  • Pierre Jeanpierre (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France))
    (1er BEP, II Formation) after its second annihilation at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu. Reconstituted in a (1er BEP, III Formation) on 19 May 1954; Pierre...
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    Tunisia from January to June 1952. On May 4, 1954, as the Battle of Dien Bien Phu was underway, the battalion began travelling to Indochina. On May 25...
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    February 1951), operations in the delta (January 1948 to February 1951), Dien Bien Phu, and leading the last combats until July 1954. The Armoured Tonkin Group...
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    Battle of Verdun (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    The Battle of Verdun (French: Bataille de Verdun [bataj də vɛʁdœ̃]; German: Schlacht um Verdun [ʃlaxt ʔʊm ˈvɛɐ̯dœ̃]) was fought from 21 February to 18...
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    Abane Ramdane believed that such a campaign would be the "Algerian Dien Bien Phu" that would force the French out of Algeria. It was decided to deliberately...
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    1974. Dufour 2004, p.103 Bataille de Souk-Ahras, on Algérie1.com, 26 avril 2016 Stone, David (2018-10-26). Dien Bien Phu 1954. Batsford. ISBN 978-1-84994-518-9...
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    Battle of Bir Hakeim (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Narvik, Bir-Hakeim, Diên Biên Phu. La 13e demi-brigade de Légion étrangère [The Legion in Battle: Narvik, Bir Hakeim, Dien Bien Phu. The 13th Demi-Brigade...
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    film, Dien Bien Phu. Free French Air Forces Mongolian Arat squadron Eugene Bullard Frédéric Geille "Chiffres clés de l'Armée de l'air - L'Armée de l'air...
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    Neua provinces. After the French withdrawal following the defeat of Dien Bien Phu, Trinquier's maquis was left behind and hunted down by Ho Chi Minh's...
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    Alphonse Juin (category École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr alumni)
    of that rank. After the French defeat in Indochina in the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954, Juin was again asked if he would take over command in Indochina...
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    Battle of Dien Bien Phu Game Designers' Workshop 1977 Dien Bien Phu SDC 1973 Conflict #6, 1973; re-released by Flying Buffalo c. 1977 Diên Biên Phu Jeux Descartes...
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