Vietnamese officers
Bế Giang Hà Bế Giang Hà (1919 - ?), a native of Cao Bằng province, came from a family of revolutionary traditions. His father was killed by Chiang Kai-shek’s army after 1945 and his father-in-law, a local village chief, provided for and hid cadres. During the First Indochina War, Hà served as Political Commissar of Group 83 (Vietnamese Volunteer Army), the first unit to go to Laos to fight as part of the Indochinese trilateral alliance against France in 1949. This armed group, stationed at Vientiane, was equivalent to a regiment. With the signing of the Genève Accords, Bế Giang Hà was transferred to the post of Chief of Office for the Ethnic Affairs Department, Central Party Committee.
Đào Việt Hưng Đào Việt Hưng, born Lê Giang, was a PAVN officer during the First Indochina War. He was the Deputy Political Commissar for the Vietnamese Volunteer Army at Upper Laos. He was awarded the First-Class Order of Resolution for Victory in 1959.
Đỗ Chính Đỗ Chính (1926 - 18 February 1994), born Đỗ Đình Ân, was a Vietnamese politician from the Văn Phúc commune, Mỹ Hào district, Hưng Yên province. Born into a poor peasant family, he had to become self-reliant early on. As a teenager, he moved to Hà Nội for work and to further his education. During the anti-Japanese national liberation movement, this poor but ambitious young man joined the Youth National Salvation Movement in Zone 3, Hà Nội. He was elected to the Executive Committee of the Zone's Youth Union and organized activities in the area. Due to alleged disturbances and sabotage from the Vietnamese Kuomintang in Phú Thọ province, the Phú Thọ Provincial Việt Minh Committee request reinforcements. Đỗ Chính was assigned to Phú Thọ in January 1946, participating in the district Việt Minh committees of Phù Ninh and Thanh Ba districts. In December 1946, he was admitted to the Indochinese Communist Party. He later served as Chairman of the Resistance Administrative Committee and concurrently as Secretary of the Thanh Thuỷ District Party Committee in Phú Thọ province. In August 1947, he transferred to work in the province, joining the Provincial Party Committee, serving as its Director of Office, then being appointed to the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Director of the Organization Department, and Director of the Inspection Department of the Phú Thọ Provincial Party Committee. From September 1949, he participated in the Party Affairs Committee of Zone 10 and then the Việt Bắc Inter-Region. In mid-1950, the organization reassigned him to the border province of Hải Ninh (now Quảng Ninh), where he served as Deputy Secretary and then Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, concurrently Political Officer of the Hải Ninh Provincial Force. After the Genève Conference in 1954, he was selected as Chairman of the Hải Ninh Provincial Military & Political Committee in preparation for the takeover. In October 1955, he joined the Land Reform Group in Ninh Bình province.
Throughout this early phase in his career, Chính was always present in the hotspots of conflict concerning the Vietnamese Kuomintang Party, bandits, and remnants of Chiang Kai-shek's army seeking refuge across the Sino-Vietnamese border. Being a studious person, he always devoted time to studying politics, culture, learning Cantonese and other languages of the ethnic minorities in the areas where he worked.ĐỖ CHÍNH (Đỗ Đình Ân)
He was then transferred to the military in the capacity of Political Officer for the 2nd Battalion under Group 40 of the Supreme Command, Deputy Director of the Political Section in the 332nd Regiment (Northeastern Military Region), and then Political Commissar of the 248th Regiment (Left Bank Military Region). From March 1959 to May 1961, he returned to civic duties as Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee and directly as Director of the Provincial Party Committee's Organization Department in Hải Ninh. In June 1961, Chính was transferred to Hải Phòng, becoming a standing member of the Municipal Party Committee, serving as Vice Chairman of the Administrative Committee and concurrently Director of the Municipal Planning Committee.
Under threats of the Vietnam War turning “hot” in the mid 1960s, he returned to the military in the post of Political Commissar of the 350th Command, a combined armed group consisting of the 350th Division and the Hải Phòng Municipal Force. Although serving in the military, Đỗ Chính still participated in the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee and served as a member of the Hải Phòng Municipal Administrative Committee to facilitate the coordination of combat and production activities supporting the war effort. In particular, when the Hải Phòng Port's operations failed to keep pace with cargo handling, the Party assigned him to concurrently take the position of Secretary of the Port District Party Committee to resolve difficulties and ensure timely cargo release for combat, production, and battlefield support.
After 1975, Chính was elected Deputy Secretary and Chairman of the People's Committee of the city, and served as Chairman from August 1976 to May 1978.Các Đồng chí Chủ tịch UBHC, Uỷ ban Nhân dân Thành phố Hải Phòng (từ 1955 đến nay) During this time, the Municipal Party Committee sometimes assigned him to directly serve as Chairman of the Agricultural Committee - a pilot model for managing the agricultural sector proposed by Hải Phòng and approved by the Central Party Committee. Chính devoted much effort and dedication to both directing production and building this pilot management model. At the 4th Party Congress (December 1976), he was elected as an alternate member of the Party Central Committee, and appointed Minister of Fisheries and concurrently Secretary of the Party Cadre Committee. In 1981, Đỗ Chính held the position of Director of the Central Party Planning and Finance Committee; he was re-elected as a standing member of the Central Committee of the Party for the 5th session (March 1982), 6th session (1986), and 7th session (December 1991); and a National Assembly delegate for the 6th session (1981-1986). He was entrusted with many important responsibilities: Deputy Director and then Head of the Vietnamese experts delegation in Cambodia (from 1984), Director of the Vietnamese Economic Committee, First Deputy Director of the Central Economic Committee, and concurrently Secretary of the Party Committee of the Central Economic Agencies group. During the mid-term of the 7th Party Congress, due to poor health, Chính voluntarily requested to withdraw from the Standing Committee of the Party Central Committee.
Đỗ Chính passed away in Hà Nội on 18 February 1994, and was laid to rest at the Mai Dịch Cemetery. He was awarded the following honors: First-Class Feat Order, First-Class Resistance Order, Second and Third-Class Order of Resolution for Victory, Medal of Labor (Cambodia).
Đỗ Huy Rừa
Đỗ Huy Rừa (1922 - 8 June 1949) was an early Southern-born field-level officer in the PAVN. At 18, Đỗ Huy Rừa and his family moved to Laos. In Vientiane, he met communists in the overseas Party Cadre Committee, received ideological guidance, and joined the Party at the age of 20. In August 1945, he was assigned the task of establishing a secret base in the village of Xangphine and organizing self-defense groups unilaterally called the "Vientiane's Overseas Vietnamese Liberation Force", with Rừa serving as deputy commander. He commanded several battles, such as destroying a platoon of remnant French troops at the Thadeua bund and eliminating a commando platoon in the Nongpakthop field northwest of Vientiane. In 1946, Rừa and other Vietnamese cadres went to Thailand to purchase weapons and organized an overseas Vietnamese armed group named the "Trần Phú Detachment", where he again became deputy commander.
Afterwards, he returned to Vietnam and was transferred to the position of Deputy Commander of the 99th Regiment in Bến Tre. When Zone 8 decided to establish the 307th Battalion, he was appointed its commander. Rừa led the 307th Battalion to victory in many battles: Song Thuận - Mỹ Tho, Tháp Mười, Mộc Hóa, La Bang... In early June 1949, when the enemy launched a large-scale sweep operation in Đồng Tháp Mười, his battalion was ordered to resist the enemy. Rừa directly commanded the operation at the head of the 931st Company. His troops annihilated nearly an entire enemy company, but 20 soldiers were killed, including battalion commander Đỗ Huy Rừa at Sài Tư, North Mỹ Thành commune, Cai Lậy district, Tiền Giang province. Musician Nguyễn Hữu Trí, then working at Zone 8, composed the song "The 307th Battalion" based on the poem "Cửu Long River" from famous writer Nguyễn Bính. In 1984, Rừa was reburied at the Tiền Giang Provincial Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery. He was posthumously designated a Hero of the People's Armed Forces.Chi tiết gia đình - Là con của: ĐỖ HUY TÚC (Đời thứ: 13)
Êban Y Blốk Y Blốk ÊbanIn this Rade name, Êban is the surname. (1921 - 13 January 2018) was the first general officer of the PAVN to hail from the Central Highlands. Born in Chư Dluê village, Hoà Xuân commune, Buôn Ma Thuột in a family of seven siblings, he was the youngest son in the family. Y Blốk suffered many hardships, starting with losing his father at the age of 2. At 15, after finishing primary school, he was conscripted by the French into the Blue Belt force,French: Milicien à ceinture blue part of the Tirailleurs Indochinois, to serve as a guard at the Buôn Ma Thuột prison. At 20, his mother passed away. Not being allowed to return home to tend to her funeral, he began to resent the colonial authorities. In prison, Y Blốk came into contact with several political prisoners, among them Nguyễn Chí Thanh, and was gradually attracted by revolutionary ideals.
On August 22, 1945, he led a platoon of Blue Belt soldiers in transforming the Trần Trọng Kim government's flag-raising ceremony into a rally supporting the August Revolution and seizing power for the Việt Minh. Y Blốk Êban's actions, under the direction of the Provisional Leadership Committee of Đắk LắkAlso called “Darlac” in older documents. province, caught the local government off guard. This first victory brought Y Blốk into the ranks of the Việt Minh, and he joined the Provisional Administrative Committee of Đắk Lắk. From June 1946, he was sent to study at the Quảng Ngãi Military Academy. In November 1946, he was appointed as the commander of an armed unit in hostile territory north of Khánh Hoà, simultaneously searching for routes and building a base among the local population. In December 1947, he was promoted to Commander of the Ma Trang Lơng Battalion. In 1953, he was sent to Việt Bắc to attend the National Conference on Guerrilla Warfare. Upon his return, the Central Party Committee assigned him the task of bringing 20 kg of gold into the Inter-Region. This was an extremely difficult and dangerous mission, but after six months of arduous effort, he successfully transport the gold back to base.
In 1954, Inter-Region 5’s original plan was for Y Blốk to “lurk” within hostile territory, but then Commander of Inter-Region 5, Major General Nguyễn Chánh, vetoed a decision appointing Y Blốk Êban as the Commander of the 120th Regiment and send him to the North for training. There, he met Chairman Hồ, General Võ Nguyên Giáp and received further political training. In 1958, Y Blốk was awarded the rank of Colonel.