Events for Wednesday 13th January 2021

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First Indochina War: The Battle of Vinh Yen begins

13th January 1951

The Battle of Vinh Yen was a major engagement in the First Indochina War between the French Union and the Viet Minh. The French Union forces inflicted a decisive defeat on the Viet Minh forces. The victory marked a turn in the tide of the war, which was previously characterized by a number of Viet Minh victories.

Further Reading

Street Without Joy
(Paperback - 414 pages)
by Bernard Fall

Originally published in 1961, before the United States escalated its involvement in South Vietnam, Street Without Joy offered a clear warning about what American forces would face in the jungles of Southeast Asia; a costly and protracted revolutionary war fought without fronts against a mobile enemy. In harrowing detail, Fall… Read more...

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