1. Indochinakrieg

News Magazine of the Screen, The (Vol. 2, Issue 9) (1952/05/00): "In Indo-China, France's costly six-year-old war against the Communists rages on."

This leaflet depicts Stalin holding Ho Chi Minh on leash while kicking a Viet Minh soldier and forcing him forward to attack a French-Vietnamese fort.

To prevent the advance of the French colonial army during the First Indochina War, Nguyen Ngoc Bich, a Viet Minh Deputy Commander of the 9th Military Region, sabotaged the Cai Rang bridge, Can Tho city, in 1945-1946. See Nguyen Ngoc Bich (1911-1966): A Biography.} for more details.

Left: "The Oath of Independence 2-9-1945. Surely you have not forgotten? - If you've gone astray, do not wait until it is too late to turn back." Right: "5-6-48. France recognizes the Independent and Unified Vietnam within the French Union. - If you've gone astray, do not wait until it is too late to turn back."

De Gaulle's ambition to restore French rule over Indochina, 1944. Original figure caption: The global ambitions of the French Fourth Republic. On this map, from the back of a brochure intended to create support for the restoration of French rule in Indochina, lines run from the Cross of Lorraine, symbol of General de Gaulle’s Free French movement during World War II, to the various parts of the empire, soon to be liberated. De Gaulle’s government, reestablished in Paris in August 1944, planned to revive the former empire as the French Union (Union française). Private collection: Annick Guénel.

Clockwise from top: After the fall of Dien Bien Phu supporting laotian troops fall back across the Mekong River into Laos; French Marine commandos wade ashore off the Annam coast in July 1950; M24 Chaffee American light tank used by French in Vietnam; Geneva Conference in 21 July 1954; A Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat from Escadrille 1F prepares to land on the French carrier Arromanches (R95) operating in the Gulf of Tonkin.

Right to left: General Harwood Bowman, General Chang Fa-Kwei, General Ho Ying-chin, General McClure, unknown Chinese officer. ☛ Romanus & Sunderland 1999, Original caption: KWANGSI COMMAND HEADQUARTERS in Nanning. Brig. Gen. Harwood C. Bowman, Commanding General, Kwangsi Command, is visited by General McClure, 7 June 1945. From the left, unidentified Chinese officer, General McClure, General Ho Ying-chin, General Chang Fa-kwei, and General Bowman. ☛ Patti 1980, Original caption: A rare photo of two Chinese generals who played a major role in delaying a French reoccupation of Indochina in 1945-46. General Ho Yingchin (second from left) was Chief of Staff to Chiang Kaishek. General Chang Fa-kwei (third from left) attempted to develop an expatriate government of Vietnamese friendly to China. They are shown on 7 June 1945 in Nanning, China, at Kwangsi Command Headquarters. At left is Major General McClure, commanding the U.S. Army's Chinese Combat Command; at right is Brigadier General Harwood C. Bowman, Commanding General, Kwangsi Command.

Battles in war of Indochina

From left to right, Vo Nguyen Giap, OSS member who treated and saved Ho Chi Minh's life, Major Allison K. Thomas, Ho Chi Minh, at Bac Bo Palace, 1945 Sep.

Ông chủ-tịch Hồ-chí-Minh, ông bí-thơ Vũ-đình-Huỳnh và hai thanh-nữ trên chuyến xe đi Normandie ngày 14 tháng 07 năm 1946.

Front page of L'Humanité from July 25, 1954, celebrating the end of the Indochina War, with an original drawing by Pablo Picasso

Flag of Hoà Hảo Army

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National Guard

National Guard at Nha Trang

The Nguyen Ngoc Bich street is named after the First-Indochina-War resistance-hero Nguyen Ngoc Bich (1911-1966) in the fight against the French colonialists.

Vice President Richard M. Nixon with Ambassador Donald R. Heath at the Tomb of the Vietnamese Unknown Soldier, 2 November 1953

The Vietminh Are Against Religion

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New Head Of Church Installed, 1947/01/16 (1947): "Envoys probe Indo-China rebellion".

Territories under Viet Minh and Pathet Lao control