ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 335140
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Date: | Saturday 13 March 1954 |
Time: | |
Type: | Douglas C-47B-20-DK (DC-3) |
Owner/operator: | L'Armée de L'Air |
Registration: | 349931/FRBDW |
MSN: | 27192/15747 |
Year of manufacture: | 1945 |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-90C |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: / Occupants: |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | UK |
Location: | Dien Bien Phu-Gialam Airport (DIN) -
Vietnam
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Phase: | Unknown |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Little or no information is available |
Narrative:Destroyed on ground by mortars.
March 13, 1954 was the day Battle of Dien Bien Phu started. This was a confrontation of the First Indochina War between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist-nationalist revolutionaries.
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