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HISTORIC: The Geneva Conference in 1954 decided to split Việt Nam into two: the North under the administration of the Hồ Chí Minh Government, the South under the pro-French, US-supported Saì Gòn regime. VNA/VNS Archives by Lady Borton* No one knew the Geneva Agreement's signing ending Việt Nam's French-American War (1945‒1954) was imminent. This included the Vietnamese, French, Europeans, and Africans who fought at Cầu Lồ in northern Việt Nam's Red River Delta on July 14, 1954, nine weeks after Việt Nam's victory over France in the prolonged battle at Điện Biên Phủ and a week before the Geneva signing. The officers of the 36th Regiment, 308th Division of the PAVN (People's Army of Việt Nam) were famous for devising innovative strategy and for protecting their troops, yet at Cầu Lồ the PAVN lost one-third of a full-strength regiment—318 soldiers. Most lie in nameless graves. How could this huge loss have happened? The answer? Geography, strong French defences, and American heavy weapons. But that's not all.[1] The PAVN's Lê Hồng Phong Campaign four years earlier in the autumn of 1950 precipitated a string of victories on Route 4, the track running along the Vietnamese-Chinese border from Cao Bằng in the mountainous far north to the East Sea (sometimes known outside Việt Nam and the Philippines as the South China Sea). Vietnamese control of Route 4 opened the route for arms coming from the Soviet Union and China. It also created a crisis in French morale, precipitated leadership dilemmas in Hà Nội and Paris, and shifted American alarm about the Chinese in Korea to include worries that the Chinese would invade the Red River Delta. The French military leaders evacuated their wives and children from Hà Nội and the port city of Hải Phòng. They briefly considered abandoning the …

No one knew the Geneva Agreement's signing ending Vietnam's French-American War (1945‒1954) was imminent. This included the Vietnamese, French, Europeans, and Africans who fought at Cau Lo in northern Vietnam's Red River Delta on July 14, 1954, nine weeks after Vietnam's victory over France in the prolonged battle at Dien Bien Phu and a week before the Geneva signing. HISTORIC: The Geneva Conference in 1954 decided to split Vietnam into two: the North under the administration of the Ho Chi Minh Government, the South under the pro-French, US-supported Saì Gon regime. VNA/VNS Archives The officers of the 36th Regiment, 308th Division of the PAVN (People's Army of Vietnam) were famous for devising innovative strategy and for protecting their troops, yet at Cau Lo the PAVN lost one-third of a full-strength regiment—318 soldiers. Most lie in nameless graves. How could this huge loss have happened? The answer? Geography, strong French defences, and American heavy weapons. But that's not all.[1] The PAVN's Le Hong Phong Campaign four years earlier in the autumn of 1950 precipitated a string of victories on Route 4, the track running along the Vietnamese-Chinese border from Cao Bang in the mountainous far north to the East Sea (sometimes known outside Vietnam and the Philippines as the South China Sea). Vietnamese control of Route 4 opened the route for arms coming from the Soviet Union and China. It also created a crisis in French morale, precipitated leadership dilemmas in Hanoi and Paris, and shifted American alarm about the Chinese in Korea to include worries that the Chinese would invade the Red River Delta. The French military leaders evacuated their wives and children from Hanoi and the port city of Hai Phong. They briefly considered abandoning the rice-rich Red River Delta.[2] However, everything changed two months later, on December 17, 1950, with the arrival in Sai Gon of French General de Lattre announcing his unprecedented dual …

WE NEVER KNEW: Napalm use during Việt Nam’s French-American War

WE NEVER KNEW: Napalm use during Vietnam’s French-American War