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In September 1940, the Japanese moved into the Haiphong area of French Indochina, claiming they wanted to disrupt supply lines to t

...] in [[Annam]]; he did not visit rural [[Tonkin]] until 1941 and the Hanoi-Haiphong area until 1945. His milk name was Nguyen Sinh Cung. ...rtheless, the situation declined, until, in November, the French shelled [[Haiphong]], killing an estimated 6,000 people. <ref>Hammer, p. 183</ref> The Viet M

...ts for the entire squadron. The ship departed Manila Bay on 30 October for Haiphong, French Indochina, to embark elements of the 52d Chinese Nationalist Army f

...]] for logistics before she sailed for [[French Indochina]]. En route to [[Haiphong]], the ship's force readied the attack cargo vessel to receive her next pas

...dgling South Vietnam Army. A paramilitary group had cached its supplies in Haiphong, having had them shipped by Civil Air Transport, a CIA proprietary airline

...ench concentrated at Dien Bien Phu and in the Red River Delta ([[Hanoi]]-[[Haiphong]] area), they began to lose initiative and mobility.

..., The growing frequency of clashes between French and Vietnamese forces in Haiphong led to a French naval bombardment in November 1946, killing from 6,000 to 2

...compassed the [[Red River Delta]], and the major cities of [[Hanoi]] and [[Haiphong]]). This colony became known as [[French Indochina]]. French forces took