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The fall of Dien Bien Phu
At 5:00 P.M. 07/May/1954 Viet Minh fighters received the order to launch a general attack without waiting for the night. A units from the 308th "Iron Division" captured the General De Castries command bunker. On the foreground B/W file picture taken by Viet Minh army shows Lieutenant Chu Ba The, the platoon leader, raised the red flag on the bunker of General De Castries command post, the Victory site of the1954 war with French.
Photo ID: dien_bien_phu012
Photo keywords: Alfred Yaghobzadeh, command bunker, Dien Bien Phu, Eliane Hill, fighter, french, French Indochina, general, General De Castries, Viet Minh, Vietnam, vo nguyen giap, war, war veteran