EU: Na twee dagen felle strijd bezetten Franse troepen het operagebouw te Hanoi (1947)
1947 Hanoi, Vietnam
French troops secured Hanoi's opera house in early 1947 after two days of intense fighting, one of the opening clashes of the First Indochina War that followed the collapse of talks between France and the Viet Minh.
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