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5 unusual facts about Haiphong


Haiphong

Fan Yang (1962– ) Canadian bubble artist, 16-time Guinness World Records holder (born in Vietnam, his mother is a Haiphong native)

Văn Cao (1923–95) musician, poet, painter and composer of the national anthem of Vietnam Tiến Quân Ca

Indochina Expeditionary Army

Japan began pressuring the Vichy government to close the railway between Haiphong and Yunnan on September 5, the Southern Expeditionary Army Group organized the amphibious Indochina Expeditionary Army under its command to coordinate a joint operation with the Japanese 5th Infantry Division of the Japanese Southern China Area Army.

Vichy France protested the breach of the agreement on September 23, but the Indochina Expeditionary Army, supported by the Imperial Japanese Navy, began sorties on the following morning on Haiphong in the Gulf of Tonkin.

Jean Sainteny

The agreement became ineffective after the bombing of Haiphong ordered by the High Commissioner Thierry d'Argenlieu and from then he played only a minor role in French-Vietnamese relations.


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Blanche Arral

In 1901 she was with a touring company in Indochina, while waiting for the 1902 Exposition of Hanoi to open, performing at Haiphong and the Hanoi Opera House.

Laser-guided bomb

It was determined that 48% of Paveways dropped during 1972–73 around Hanoi and Haiphong achieved direct hits, compared with only 5.5% of unguided bombs dropped on the same area a few years earlier.

Religion in Vietnam

As late as 1939, the estimated combined population of the Jewish communities of Haiphong, Hanoi, Saigon and Tourane in French Indo-China numbered approximately 1,000 individuals.


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