Photos The French In Indochina

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Pro-French “Groupement de Commandos Mixtes Aéroportés” Commandos with MAS-38 SMG’s capture a Viet Minh soldier from an underground hideout in the Thai Binh sector in Indochina - December 1953
LIFE Magazine Archives - Howard Sochurek Photographer

 

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GREAT PHOTOS................Thanks for posting, more if you've got them!!!

 

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Mekong. 1946

 

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a section of the 5th RIC (colonial infantry regiment) in progress on the Mekong

 

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Excellent series of photos -- all new to me. Thank you!

 

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YES, great photos mate, thanks for sharing!!

 

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First Indochina War. c 1954. A French Foreign Legionnaire on patrol in the Red River Delta.

 

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French and Vietnamese paratroopers of Bigeard's 6e BPC in forced march from Tu Lê to the Black River, Tonkin, in October 1952.

 

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January 1954. Legionnaires from the 1st Foreign Parachute Battalion (BEP) during a patrol west of Diên Biên Phu.

 

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French M8 Greyhound in Cambodia, 1953.

 

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Caporal-chef Auguste Apel, of the Foreign Legion, in the "base aéroterrestre" of Na San, Indochina, on December 13, 1952.

 

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Marine Commandos of the Commando François in Indochina, shortly before being annihilated in the church of Ninh Binh, during the Battle of the Day River on 29 May 1950.

 

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Caporal-chef Auguste Apel, legionnaire with the 2e Bataillon Étranger de Parachutistes (2e BEP) during the Battle of Na San 1952

 

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Operation "Castor", started on November 20, 1953, is a military operation of the French army entrusted to General Gilles, whose goal was to take over the Dien Bien Phu region.

 

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Sergeant of a GAP 2 paratrooper unit, Operation Polux, December 1953.

 

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A left handed Foreign Legionnaire with a Lee Enfield No. 4 MK1 T Sniper rifle in Indochina. First Indochina War, early 1950’s

 

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Foreign Legionnaires assemble a M24 Chaffee light tank; ten tanks were broken down into 180 parts each, flown to Dien Bien Phu, then re-assembled on site. December 1953