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5th Vietnamese Parachute Battalion

Field	Value
unit_name	5th Vietnamese Parachute Battalion
image	5° BPVN.jpg
dates	1953-75
country	State of Vietnam
Republic of Vietnam
branch	Vietnamese National Army
type	Airborne force
role	Anti-tank warfare
Artillery observer
Close-quarters combat
Counterinsurgency
Direct action
Forward air control
Jungle warfare
Long-range penetration
Mountain warfare
Parachuting
Patrolling
Raiding
Reconnaissance
Urban warfare
size	Battalion
command_structure	Groupe d'Opération Nord-Ouest (GONO)
nickname	5e Bawouan

Republic of Vietnam Artillery observer Close-quarters combat Counterinsurgency Direct action Forward air control Jungle warfare Long-range penetration Mountain warfare Parachuting Patrolling Raiding Reconnaissance Urban warfare

The 5th Vietnamese Parachute Battalion (Fr: 5e bataillon de parachutistes vietnamiens) was one of the Vietnamese National Army (VNA)'s airborne forces under the command of the Operational Group North-West (GONO), French Far East Expeditionary Corps during the First Indochina War. The bataillon was formed in Hanoi on 1 September 1953 and was a paratrooper battalion of the State of Vietnam, an independent country within the French Union. Later it became a part of the Republic of Vietnam Military Forces when the State of Vietnam became a republic in 1955.

Operational history

The 5th Vietnamese Parachute Battalion (5 BPVN) was one of five battalions of Vietnamese paratroopers raised by the French Army between 1951 and 1954 as part of General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny's policy to establish a Vietnamese Army. It was formed on September 1, 1953 from the transfer of the PC and the 3rd and 23rd Indochinese parachute companies of the French 3rd Colonial Parachute Battalion, dissolved the day before and repatriated to France.

The battalion participated in Operation Pike (September - October 1953), Operation Castor (November 1953) and the Battle of Dien Bien Phu.

Commanding officers

Capitaine Jacques Bouvery (September 1953 - December 1953)
Commandant André Botella (December 1953 - May 1954)
Capitaine Tholy (June 1954 - July 1954)
Capitaine Lesaux (July 1954)

Sources

Hell In A Very Small Place - Bernard Fall (1966)

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