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| First Indochina War | |||||||||
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| Part of the Indochina Wars of the Cold War | |||||||||
 A French Foreign Legion unit patrols in a communist-controlled area. | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 United States[1] (1950-1954) |
 China Soviet Union [source?] | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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 Ho Chi Minh, Vo Nguyen Giap Souphanouvong | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
 French Union: 190,000Local Auxiliary: 55,000  State of Vietnam: 150,000[5]Total: ~400,000 |
125,000 Regulars, 75,000 Regional, 250,000 Popular Forces/Irregulars[6] Total: 450,000 | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
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State of Vietnam: 419,000 dead, wounded or captured[7]Total: ~560,000+ dead, wounded or captured |
Combined total: 300,000+ dead, 500,000+ wounded, 100,000+ captured Total: 900,000+ dead, wounded or captured | ||||||||
| 150,000+ civilians killed[8] | |||||||||
The First Indochina War was fought in French Indochina from December 19, 1946 to August 1, 1954. Other names for the war are the French Indochina War, Anti-French War, Franco-Vietnamese War, Franco-Vietminh War, Indochina War, Dirty War in France, and Anti-French Resistance War. The war was fought between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps, led by France and supported by Emperor Bảo Đại's Vietnamese National Army, and the Việt Minh, led by Hồ Chí Minh and Võ Nguyên Giáp. Most of the fighting took place in Tonkin, in northern Vietnam, but the conflict spread over the entire country and also extended into the neighboring French Indochinese protectorates of Laos and Cambodia.
- ↑ France honors CIA pilots
- ↑ Jacques Dalloz, La Guerre d'Indochine 1945-1954, Seuil, Paris, 1987,pp. 129-130, 206
- ↑ Jacques Dalloz, La Guerre d'Indochine 1945-1954, Seuil, Paris, 1987,pp. 129-130
- ↑ US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles on the fall of Dien Bien Phu
- ↑ Windrow, Martin (1998). The French Indochina War 1946-1954 (Men-At-Arms, 322). London: Osprey Publishing. pp. 11. ISBN 1855327899.
- ↑ Windrow 1998, p. 23
- ↑ France's world newspaper, 15-7-1954
- ↑ Smedberg, M (2008), Vietnamkrigen: 1880-1980. Historiska Media, p. 88