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...n May 1941. In the spring, the Communists reorganized into what became the Viet Minh. <ref name=Hammer>{{citation ...ds. During the Japanese occupation, even during French administration, the Viet Minh exiled to China had an opportunity to quietly rebuild their infrastructure.

...ecially the French defeat at the [[Battle of Dien Bien Phu]], in which the Viet Minh used several [[division]] equivalents. ...intensely anti-communist American journalist, [[Joseph Alsop]], had toured Viet Minh governed areas of the South in 1954, and was shocked to observe that "it wa

...August 3 projected relatively little Communist activity in [[Cambodia]] as Viet Minh withdraw. With outside help, the Cambodians should be able to build a secur

...of the South, certain pro-French elements may be planning to overthrow it. Viet Minh elements will stay in the south and create an underground, discredit the go

...tack, but also gave orders to hunt down the Lam Song deserters, as well as Viet Minh who had entered Indochina while the French seemed preoccupied with Japan.

...an Dang) and Communist (e.g., Ho Chi Minh|Indochinese Communist Party; the Viet Minh became the dominant revolutionary force. From 1946 to 1948, the French rees

There is little doubt that there was some kind of Viet Minh-derived "stay behind" organization between 1954 and 1960, but it is unclear ...oited, initially at the level of propaganda and recruiting, by stay-behind Viet Minh receiving orders from the North.

...ord also received 40 to 60 percent of the tenants' crops as rent. When the Viet Minh fought the French, they also fought an economic war, and drove large landow

Some kind of Viet Minh-derived organization remained in the South between 1954 and 1960, but it is ...oited, initially at the level of propaganda and recruiting, by stay-behind Viet Minh receiving orders from the North.

..."Passage to Freedom," came on the heels of the defeat of the French by the Viet Minh and the division of the Vietnamese portion of Indochina into the communist

...division of Vietnam, but lost out when the French accepted the proposal of Viet Minh delegate Pham Van Dong,<ref>''The Pentagon Papers'' (1971), Beacon Press, v ...oited, initially at the level of propaganda and recruiting, by stay-behind Viet Minh receiving orders from the North.

...attempt to take Khe Sanh? Was the battle truly an attempt to replicate the Viet Minh triumph against the French at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu? General Westmore

...around the area, and were wearing their packs. Huynh, who may have been a Viet Minh officer against the French, did not deny it was an ambush, but a hasty one,

...by the Axis powers, and also to Mao Zedong's Red Army in China and to the Viet Minh in French Indochina who were fighting the Japanese. At the end of the war,

...at Bi airfield, to support Dien Bien Phu. Flights started in March, as the Viet Minh began their assault, and continued until Dien Bien Phu fell on 7 May. Two C

...r of direction-finding stations, with about 40 technicians. They monitored Viet Minh, Nationalist and Communist Chinese, British, Dutch and Indonesian communica ...flamed by "his program of wholesale political suppression, not just of the Viet Minh cadre that had stayed in the south after Geneva, but against all opposition