BATTLE OF INDO-CHINA: Everything for the Army

BATTLE OF INDOCHINA

Among the French B-26 pilots who bombed German supply lines from North Africa in World War II was a tall slender officer with an Oriental cast to his handsome features. Born in Indo-China, where his father was a high official, and educated in France, Captain Nguyen Van Hinh served France so well that by 1947 he was in command of an air group. In 1949, when the war against the Viet Minh Communists began to get hot, Nguyen Van Hinh's group was sent to Indo-China. Nguyen Van Hinh and his pilots...

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