Operation Papillon

Operation Papillon
Operation Papillon
Part of the First Indochina War
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A Bearcat of the Aéronavale drops napalm on Viet Minh positions
Date April 1947
Location Hoa Binh Province, Vietnam
Belligerents
France French Union
North Vietnam Viet Minh

Operation Papillon (French: butterfly) was a large scale air and ground assault on the Viet Minh at Hoa Binh by the French Army and Air Force in April 1947, during the early stages of the First Indochina War.[1][2]

Notes

  1. ^ Boyne, Walter J. (2002-06-30). Air Warfare: an International Encyclopedia: A-L. ABC-CLIO. p. 320. ISBN 9781576073452. 
  2. ^ Armitage, M. J.; Mason, R. A. (1983). Air power in the nuclear age. University of Illinois Press. pp. 49–50. ISBN 9780252010309. 

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. 
  • Kedward, Rod (2006). La vie en bleu: France and the French since 1900. Penguin. ISBN 9780140130959. 
  • Roy, Jules (1963). The battle of Dienbienphu. Pyramid Books. 
  • Windrow, Martin (2005-12-26). The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam. Da Capo Press. ISBN 9780306814433. 
  • Fall, Bernard B. (1994). Street without joy. Stackpole Books. ISBN 9780811717007. 
  • 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. 


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