https://soviet-awards.com/forum/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 18:58:38 +0000 MyBB https://soviet-awards.com/forum/Thread-Law-on-Emulation-and-Commendation Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:35:14 +0000 medals73]]> https://soviet-awards.com/forum/Thread-Law-on-Emulation-and-Commendation http://moj.gov.vn/vbpq/en/Lists/Vn%20bn%...temID=8263]]> http://moj.gov.vn/vbpq/en/Lists/Vn%20bn%...temID=8263]]> https://soviet-awards.com/forum/Thread-Vietnamese-Ribbon-Bars Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:36:11 +0000 medals73]]> https://soviet-awards.com/forum/Thread-Vietnamese-Ribbon-Bars
– Resistance Order 3rd class; Liberation Soldier Medal 2nd class; Vietnam Army's Flag for Determined Victory Order (probably, other awards use this same ribbon but this is the most likely).

– Glory of Soldier 1st class; Glory of Soldier 2nd class; Glory of Soldier 3rd class.

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– Resistance Order 3rd class; Liberation Soldier Medal 2nd class; Vietnam Army's Flag for Determined Victory Order (probably, other awards use this same ribbon but this is the most likely).

– Glory of Soldier 1st class; Glory of Soldier 2nd class; Glory of Soldier 3rd class.

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BAN THI ĐUA KHEN THƯỞNG TRUNG ƯƠNG › CSDL Văn bản TĐKT

Here you can search about everything you'd want to. From the Congress's meeting scrip all the way to documents about who that received the latest Ho Chi Minh award.

I'm also posting basic translations here. Hope that it makes it easier for you to understand the style.

Image 1: Here we got the basic search table.

Image 2: Here is all the information about the document you've chosen. The last column is a link to the document itself.

Hope you enjoy it!

Gabriel

The easy pre-translated way: Google Translate

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BAN THI ĐUA KHEN THƯỞNG TRUNG ƯƠNG › CSDL Văn bản TĐKT

Here you can search about everything you'd want to. From the Congress's meeting scrip all the way to documents about who that received the latest Ho Chi Minh award.

I'm also posting basic translations here. Hope that it makes it easier for you to understand the style.

Image 1: Here we got the basic search table.

Image 2: Here is all the information about the document you've chosen. The last column is a link to the document itself.

Hope you enjoy it!

Gabriel

The easy pre-translated way: Google Translate

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Orders and decorations were designed in 1947 by the Vietnamese artists. Incorperating features from the Orders and medals of France, Soviet Union, and China and were then submitted to and approved by President Ho Chi Minh. The initial orders and decorations were made in China instead of Vietnam since it was during a time of critical war. Later, Orders and decorations were domestically made by the Vietnam People’s Army.


There are 17 official Orders

1. Gold Star Order

2. Ho Chi Minh Order

3. Fatherland Order

4. Independence Order

5. Bulwark Order (Brass Fortress)

6. Military Exploits Order

7. Military Achievement Liberation Order

8. Labour Order

9. Vietnam Liberation Troop Order

10. Victory Order

11. Exploits Order

12. Liberation Exploits Order

13. Resistance War Order

14. “ Soldier of Glory” Order

15. Liberation Soldier Order

16. Liberation Order

17. Fatherland Safeguard Order

And 13 Decorations

1. Fatherland-Awarded Decoration

2. People’s Armed Forces Hero Decoration

3. Liberation People’s Armed Forces Hero Decoration

4. Heroic Vietnamese Mother Decoration

5. Heroic Labour Decoration

6. Vietnam Liberation Troop Decoration

7. Resistance War Decoration

8. “ Soldier of Glory” Decoration

9. Victory Decoration

10. Liberation Decoration

11. “ Resolution for Victory” Decoration

12. Liberation Soldier Decoration

13. Banner of Resolution for Victory Decoration

NOTE:

This information is adapted from the Vietnam Military History Museum and does not correspond with information provided in Ed Emering's book]]>
Orders and decorations were designed in 1947 by the Vietnamese artists. Incorperating features from the Orders and medals of France, Soviet Union, and China and were then submitted to and approved by President Ho Chi Minh. The initial orders and decorations were made in China instead of Vietnam since it was during a time of critical war. Later, Orders and decorations were domestically made by the Vietnam People’s Army.


There are 17 official Orders

1. Gold Star Order

2. Ho Chi Minh Order

3. Fatherland Order

4. Independence Order

5. Bulwark Order (Brass Fortress)

6. Military Exploits Order

7. Military Achievement Liberation Order

8. Labour Order

9. Vietnam Liberation Troop Order

10. Victory Order

11. Exploits Order

12. Liberation Exploits Order

13. Resistance War Order

14. “ Soldier of Glory” Order

15. Liberation Soldier Order

16. Liberation Order

17. Fatherland Safeguard Order

And 13 Decorations

1. Fatherland-Awarded Decoration

2. People’s Armed Forces Hero Decoration

3. Liberation People’s Armed Forces Hero Decoration

4. Heroic Vietnamese Mother Decoration

5. Heroic Labour Decoration

6. Vietnam Liberation Troop Decoration

7. Resistance War Decoration

8. “ Soldier of Glory” Decoration

9. Victory Decoration

10. Liberation Decoration

11. “ Resolution for Victory” Decoration

12. Liberation Soldier Decoration

13. Banner of Resolution for Victory Decoration

NOTE:

This information is adapted from the Vietnam Military History Museum and does not correspond with information provided in Ed Emering's book]]> https://soviet-awards.com/forum/Thread-50th-Anniversary-of-the-battle-of-%C4%90i%E1%BB%87n-Bi%C3%AAn-Ph%E1%BB%A7 Sat, 08 May 2004 08:49:18 +0000 Christophe]]> https://soviet-awards.com/forum/Thread-50th-Anniversary-of-the-battle-of-%C4%90i%E1%BB%87n-Bi%C3%AAn-Ph%E1%BB%A7
For those interested, here are abstracts of an interesting article by Bruce Kennedy (CNN).

"1954 battle changed Vietnam's history

It is seen by many military scholars as one of the great battles of the 20th century -- and a defining moment in the history of Southeast Asia. And yet the Battle of Dien Bien Phu receives rarely more than a passing mention in most history texts.

After World War II, France was able to reinstall its colonial government in what was then known as Indochina. By 1946 a Vietnamese independence movement, led by communist Ho Chi Minh, was fighting French troops for control of northern Vietnam. The Viet Minh, as the insurgents were called, used guerrilla tactics that the French found difficult to counter.

In late 1953, as both sides prepared for peace talks in the Indochina War, French military commanders picked Dien Bien Phu, a village in northwestern Vietnam near the Laotian and Chinese borders, as the place to pick a fight with the Viet Minh. (...)

Hoping to draw Ho Chi Minh's guerrillas into a classic battle, the French began to build up their garrison at Dien Bien Phu. The stronghold was located at the bottom of a bowl-shaped river valley, about 10 miles long. Most French troops and supplies entered Dien Bien Phu from the air -- either landing at the fort's airstrip or dropping in via parachute.

Dien Bien Phu's main garrison also would be supported by a series of firebases -- strongpoints on nearby hills that could bring down fire on an attacker. The strongpoints were given women's names, supposedly after the mistresses of the French commander, Gen. Christian de Castries. The French assumed any assaults on their heavily fortified positions would fail or be broken up by their artillery.

The size of the French garrison at Dien Bien Phu swelled to somewhere between 13,000 and 16,000 troops by March 1954. About 70 percent of that force was made up of members of the French Foreign Legion, soldiers from French colonies in North Africa, and loyal Vietnamese.

Viet Minh guerrillas and troops from the People's Army of Vietnam surrounded Dien Bien Phu during the buildup within the French garrison. Their assault on March 13 proved almost immediately how vulnerable and flawed the French defenses were.

Dien Bien Phu's outlying firebases were overrun within days of the initial assault. And the main part of the garrison was amazed to find itself coming under heavy, withering artillery fire from the surrounding hills. In a major logistical feat, the Viet Minh had dragged scores of artillery pieces up steeply forested hillsides the French had written off as impassable.

The French artillery commander, distraught at his inability to bring counterfire on the well-defended and well-camouflaged Viet Minh batteries, went into his dugout and killed himself.

The heavy Viet Minh bombardment also closed Dien Bien Phu's airstrip. French attempts to resupply and reinforce the garrison via parachute were frustrated -- as pilots attempting to fly over the region found themselves facing a barrage from anti-aircraft guns. It was during the resupply effort that two civilian pilots, James McGovern and Wallace Buford, became the first Americans killed in Vietnam combat.

The supply planes were forced to fly higher, and their parachute drops became less accurate. Much of what was intended for the French forces -- including food, ammunition and, in one case, essential intelligence information -- landed instead in Viet Minh territory. Meanwhile, the Viet Minh steadily reduced the French-held area -- using what their commander, Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, called "a tactic of combined nibbling and full-scale attack."

Closed off from the outside world, under constant fire, and flooded by monsoon rains, conditions inside Dien Bien Phu became inhuman. Casualties piled up inside the garrison's hospital.

Dien Bien Phu fell to the Viet Minh on May 7. At least 2,200 members of the French forces died during the siege -- with thousands more taken prisoner. Of the 50,000 or so Vietnamese who besieged the garrison, there were about 23,000 casualties -- including an estimated 8,000 killed.

The fall of Dien Bien Phu shocked France and brought an end to French Indochina. (...)

Following the French withdrawal, Vietnam was officially divided into a communist North and non-communist South -- setting the stage for U.S. involvement.

In 1963, as Washington was deepening its commitment in Vietnam, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev made a telling remark to a U.S. official.

"If you want to, go ahead and fight in the jungles of Vietnam," Khrushchev said. "The French fought there for seven years and still had to quit in the end. Perhaps the Americans will be able to stick it out for a little longer, but eventually they will have to quit, too."

Many good articles or web sites are available (not all only in french) for those interested in knowing more about this historic battle.

Here is a vietnamese veteran celebrating the end of the battle.
(Pic form AFP).

Ch.

And this is the site of the Dien Bien Phu monument. Around 3000 soldiers died in Dien Bien Phu.

Ch.

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For those interested, here are abstracts of an interesting article by Bruce Kennedy (CNN).

"1954 battle changed Vietnam's history

It is seen by many military scholars as one of the great battles of the 20th century -- and a defining moment in the history of Southeast Asia. And yet the Battle of Dien Bien Phu receives rarely more than a passing mention in most history texts.

After World War II, France was able to reinstall its colonial government in what was then known as Indochina. By 1946 a Vietnamese independence movement, led by communist Ho Chi Minh, was fighting French troops for control of northern Vietnam. The Viet Minh, as the insurgents were called, used guerrilla tactics that the French found difficult to counter.

In late 1953, as both sides prepared for peace talks in the Indochina War, French military commanders picked Dien Bien Phu, a village in northwestern Vietnam near the Laotian and Chinese borders, as the place to pick a fight with the Viet Minh. (...)

Hoping to draw Ho Chi Minh's guerrillas into a classic battle, the French began to build up their garrison at Dien Bien Phu. The stronghold was located at the bottom of a bowl-shaped river valley, about 10 miles long. Most French troops and supplies entered Dien Bien Phu from the air -- either landing at the fort's airstrip or dropping in via parachute.

Dien Bien Phu's main garrison also would be supported by a series of firebases -- strongpoints on nearby hills that could bring down fire on an attacker. The strongpoints were given women's names, supposedly after the mistresses of the French commander, Gen. Christian de Castries. The French assumed any assaults on their heavily fortified positions would fail or be broken up by their artillery.

The size of the French garrison at Dien Bien Phu swelled to somewhere between 13,000 and 16,000 troops by March 1954. About 70 percent of that force was made up of members of the French Foreign Legion, soldiers from French colonies in North Africa, and loyal Vietnamese.

Viet Minh guerrillas and troops from the People's Army of Vietnam surrounded Dien Bien Phu during the buildup within the French garrison. Their assault on March 13 proved almost immediately how vulnerable and flawed the French defenses were.

Dien Bien Phu's outlying firebases were overrun within days of the initial assault. And the main part of the garrison was amazed to find itself coming under heavy, withering artillery fire from the surrounding hills. In a major logistical feat, the Viet Minh had dragged scores of artillery pieces up steeply forested hillsides the French had written off as impassable.

The French artillery commander, distraught at his inability to bring counterfire on the well-defended and well-camouflaged Viet Minh batteries, went into his dugout and killed himself.

The heavy Viet Minh bombardment also closed Dien Bien Phu's airstrip. French attempts to resupply and reinforce the garrison via parachute were frustrated -- as pilots attempting to fly over the region found themselves facing a barrage from anti-aircraft guns. It was during the resupply effort that two civilian pilots, James McGovern and Wallace Buford, became the first Americans killed in Vietnam combat.

The supply planes were forced to fly higher, and their parachute drops became less accurate. Much of what was intended for the French forces -- including food, ammunition and, in one case, essential intelligence information -- landed instead in Viet Minh territory. Meanwhile, the Viet Minh steadily reduced the French-held area -- using what their commander, Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, called "a tactic of combined nibbling and full-scale attack."

Closed off from the outside world, under constant fire, and flooded by monsoon rains, conditions inside Dien Bien Phu became inhuman. Casualties piled up inside the garrison's hospital.

Dien Bien Phu fell to the Viet Minh on May 7. At least 2,200 members of the French forces died during the siege -- with thousands more taken prisoner. Of the 50,000 or so Vietnamese who besieged the garrison, there were about 23,000 casualties -- including an estimated 8,000 killed.

The fall of Dien Bien Phu shocked France and brought an end to French Indochina. (...)

Following the French withdrawal, Vietnam was officially divided into a communist North and non-communist South -- setting the stage for U.S. involvement.

In 1963, as Washington was deepening its commitment in Vietnam, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev made a telling remark to a U.S. official.

"If you want to, go ahead and fight in the jungles of Vietnam," Khrushchev said. "The French fought there for seven years and still had to quit in the end. Perhaps the Americans will be able to stick it out for a little longer, but eventually they will have to quit, too."

Many good articles or web sites are available (not all only in french) for those interested in knowing more about this historic battle.

Here is a vietnamese veteran celebrating the end of the battle.
(Pic form AFP).

Ch.

And this is the site of the Dien Bien Phu monument. Around 3000 soldiers died in Dien Bien Phu.

Ch.

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