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First Indochina War

Sir Douglas Gracey proclaimed martial law

Friday Sep 21, 1945
French Indochina (Now Vietnam)

Allied troops in Saigon were an airborne detachment, two British companies of the Indian 20th Infantry Division and the French 5th Colonial Infantry Regiment, with British General Sir Douglas Gracey as supreme commander. The latter proclaimed martial law on September 21. The following night the Franco-British troops took control of Saigon.


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