Operation Adolphe

Operation Adolphe
Part of the First Indochina War
A French Foreign Legion unit patrols in a communist controlled area.
Date April 1953 Location French Indochina
Belligerents
French Union France State of Vietnam	Viet Minh

Operation Adolphe (also referred to as Adolph) a military operation by the French Army that took place during the First Indochina War, commencing in April 1953. It was the last of several operations that spring, concluding before the monsoon season made campaigning difficult until the commencement of Operation Camargue in July.^[1]

Notes

1. ^ New Statesman: the week-end review. 1953-01-01. http://books.google.com/books?id=lVcQAAAAIAAJ. 

References

Printed

• Hammer, Ellen Joy (1954). The struggle for Indochina. Stanford University Press. 
• Buttinger, Joseph (1972). A dragon defiant: a short history of Vietnam. Praeger. 
• Fall, Bernard B. (1967). Hell in a very small place: the siege of Dien Bien Phu. Lippincott. 
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• Roy, Jules (1963). The battle of Dienbienphu. Pyramid Books. 
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• Devillers, Philippe; Lacouture, Jean (1969). End of a war; Indochina, 1954. Praeger. 
• Fall, Bernard B. (1963). The two Viet-Nams: a political and military analysis. Praeger.