Leaders of Quang Nam province pay tribute at Bo Bo Victory Monument

The delegation paid tribute at the Bo Bo Victory Monument. Photo: QT

Also participating in the incense-paying delegation were representatives of leaders of a number of departments, branches, Dien Ban town and the People's Committee of Hoang Hoa district ( Thanh Hoa province) - a twinned unit of Dien Ban town.

At the Bo Bo Victory Monument, the provincial leaders and the delegation observed a minute of silence to commemorate the heroic martyrs and pay tribute to the generations of fathers and brothers who sacrificed for the revolutionary cause and independence of the nation.

Chairman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of the province Le Tri Thanh offered incense at the Bo Bo Victory Monument. Photo: QT

Battles took place here on June 19, 1954 and especially the battle on July 19, 1954 with more than 3 hours of fighting, our army won gloriously, causing heavy damage to a mobile, elite French colonial force, destroying 150 soldiers, capturing 293 soldiers, including Colonel Camilet Tiphelit - commander of the operation.

Delegates held a moment of silence to commemorate generations of fathers and brothers who sacrificed for the revolutionary cause and independence of the nation. Photo: QT

Bo Bo Victory Monument is a place marking the glorious victory of the army and people of Quang Nam in the war against the invaders in July 1954.

The Bo Bo victory is considered a "Dien Bien Phu" on the Quang Nam - Da Nang battlefield, contributing to the whole country's ending of the resistance war against the French colonialists, leading to the signing of the Geneva Agreement on ending the war and restoring peace in Indochina on July 20, 1954.

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