Nickname(s) Thanh Xuân
Minh Phượng Allegiance Viet Minh
Vietnam Rank Lieutenant colonel Other names Thanh Xuân, Minh Phượng | Buried at Thanh Tước Cemetery Years of service 1944–1975 Spouse Hoàng Văn Thái | |
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Service/branch Vietnam People's Army
Viet Cong Died 28 January 2010, Hanoi, Vietnam Battles and wars First Indochina War, Vietnam War |
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Đàm Thị Loan (1926-2010), born Đàm Thị Nết, was a lieutenant colonel in the People's Army of Vietnam. She was one of three female soldiers in the original Vietnam Armed Propaganda Unit for National Liberation in 1944 and was in the honor guard hoisting the flag of the new independent country in the Independence ceremony held at Ba Dinh Square on September 2, 1945. Her husband was general Hoàng Văn Thái, the first chief of staff of the Vietnam People's Army and the military leader of Viet Cong.
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