Operation Lorraine
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| Operation Lorraine | |||||||
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| Part of First Indochina War | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 French Union French Foreign Legion
|  Viet Minh
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| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Raoul Salan | Vo Nguyen Giap | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 30,000 | Unknown | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 1,200 killed, wounded, missing | Unknown | ||||||
Operation Lorraine was a French military operation of the First Indochina War.
The main objective for the French was to lure the Viet Minh into open battle and inflict a crushing defeat on them. Giap failed to take the bait and Salan canceled the operation and the French withdraw to the de Lattre line. A detailed account of this operation can be found in Bernard B. Fall's "Street Without Joy".
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