(sorry for being a bit late mates was out all day)
Well the battle didn’t rage just in Hanoi but many other cities as well. It started at 20:03 p.m. local time with the bombardment of a French position in Láng, Hanoi.
The Vietminh fought with literally anything they had, mostly meleé weapons, captured Arisakas, even some outdated Lebels and self-made muskets, and held on for almost 60 days anyways. On the 17th of February the bulk of the Vietminh forces retreated northwards, crossing the Red with the sacrifice of Nguyễn Ngọc Nại’s rearguards.
Special ‘kamikaze’ units formed to suicide bomb French tanks/ AFV’s with leftover Japanese lunge bombs. Fun fact, they held their own funerals before the battle. Allegedly the soldier in the picture above had survived one such ordeal but died at his second.
One of the fiercest firefights was fought at the Tonkin Palace, now the national guest house for ambassadors and diplomats.
We went from bringing a machete to a gunfight, to Dienbienphu.
(sorry for being a bit late mates was out all day)
Well the battle didn’t rage just in Hanoi but many other cities as well. It started at 20:03 p.m. local time with the bombardment of a French position in Láng, Hanoi.
Here’s the call to arms
And a song for the occasion
The Vietminh fought with literally anything they had, mostly meleé weapons, captured Arisakas, even some outdated Lebels and self-made muskets, and held on for almost 60 days anyways. On the 17th of February the bulk of the Vietminh forces retreated northwards, crossing the Red with the sacrifice of Nguyễn Ngọc Nại’s rearguards.
Special ‘kamikaze’ units formed to suicide bomb French tanks/ AFV’s with leftover Japanese lunge bombs. Fun fact, they held their own funerals before the battle. Allegedly the soldier in the picture above had survived one such ordeal but died at his second.
One of the fiercest firefights was fought at the Tonkin Palace, now the national guest house for ambassadors and diplomats.
We went from bringing a machete to a gunfight, to Dienbienphu.
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