Tag: Deer Team

• Know Your History: Americans Helping the Viet-Minh in 1945

  On July 16, 1945 a group of American OSS officers (Office of Strategic Services – the precursor to the CIA) parachuted into the Viet-Minh HQ in Tan Trao, Tonkin. (Tonkin was the name for northern Vietnam during the French colonial period.) This small group of officers were charged with helping to train the Vietnamese to…

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  February 5, 2014

  History & Culture, Know Your History

  Deer Team, Dien Bien Phu, French, French Indochina, French-Indochina War, Ho Chi Minh, OSS, Tan Trao, Tonkin, Viet Minh, Vietnam