ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 335140
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| Date: | Saturday 13 March 1954 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47B-20-DK (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | L'Armée de L'Air |
| Registration: | 349931/FRBDW |
| MSN: | 27192/15747 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1945 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-90C |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: / Occupants: |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | UK |
| Location: | Dien Bien Phu-Gialam Airport (DIN) -
 Vietnam
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| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Little or no information is available |
Destroyed on ground by mortars.
March 13, 1954 was the day Battle of Dien Bien Phu started. This was a confrontation of the First Indochina War between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist-nationalist revolutionaries.
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