Hoàng Cầm (general)
{{Short description|Vietnamese general}}
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| birth_name = Đỗ Văn Cầm
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| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1920|4|30}}
| birth_place = Ứng Hòa, Hà Tây, Tonkin (French protectorate)
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2013|8|19|1920|4|30}}
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| party = Communist Party of Vietnam
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| allegiance = {{flagicon|Vietnam}} Democratic Republic of Vietnam and later Vietnam
| branch = People's Army of Vietnam
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| rank = Colonel General
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- First Indochina War
- Battle of Đông Khê
- Battle of Điện Biên Phủ
- Vietnam War
- Operation Birmingham
- Operation El Paso
- Operation Attleboro
- Battle of Phước Long
- Battle of Xuân Lộc
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Hoàng Cầm (born Đỗ Văn Cầm) (1920–2013) was a colonel general in the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN).{{cite book|last = Hoàng|first = Phan|title = Phỏng vấn các tướng lĩnh Việt Nam: tập 1-2-3|publisher = Trẻ|year = 1999|page = 10|language = Vietnamese|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=mHluAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Ho%C3%A0ng+C%E1%BA%A7m%22+1920}}{{cite web |title=Colonel General Hoàng Cầm |url=https://mod.gov.vn/vn/noi-dung/sa-qdndvn/sa-qdndvn-child/sa-qdndvn-tlqdndvn/sa-qdndvn-tlqdndvn-thuongtuong/121504b5-6312-44c8-a2ce-3a567427a5ed |website=mod.gov.vn |access-date=14 April 2024}}
Early years
Hoàng Cầm was born Đỗ Văn Cầm in Cao Sơn, Ứng Hòa district, Hà Tây province of the Tonkin Protectorate. Cầm had a poor childhood, was orphaned at age of 12. He joined Tirailleurs indochinois stationed at Lai Châu for a living at age of 21. Two years later he was transferred to Hà Nội, but deserted thus escaping from Japanese coup d'état in French Indochina in March 1945. Cầm joined the Youth Union of Hà Nội in July 1945, then joined {{ill|National Salvation Army (Viet Minh)|vi|Cứu quốc quân}} of Hà Nội after August Uprising and changed his name to Hoàng Cầm.
Military career
In the First Indochina War, Hoàng Cầm led the 130th battalion of the 209th regiment in the Battle of Đông Khê, then the 209th regiment of the 312th Brigade in the Battle of Điện Biên Phủ.
In 1966, Senior Colonel Cầm led the PAVN 9th Infantry Division fighting against the U.S. Army 1st Infantry Division in a series of operations, including Operation Birmingham, Operation El Paso, and Operation Attleboro. {{cite book|last=Carland|first=John|title=Combat Operations: Stemming the Tide, May 1965 to October 1966|publisher=Center of Military History United States Army|year=2000|isbn=9780160501975|url=https://www.history.army.mil/html/books/091/91-5/index.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120913060011/http://www.history.army.mil/html/books/091/91-5/index.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 13, 2012}}{{PD-notice}}{{rp|81}}{{rp|317}}{{cite book|last=MacGarrigle|first=George|title=Combat Operations: Taking the Offensive, October 1966 to October 1967|publisher=U.S. Army Center of Military History|year=1998|isbn=9780160495403|url=https://www.history.army.mil/catalog/pubs/91/91-4.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101108053419/http://www.history.army.mil/catalog/pubs/91/91-4.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 8, 2010}}{{PD-notice}}{{rp|38}}
He led the PAVN 4th Corps in the Battle of Phước Long and Battle of Xuân Lộc.{{cite book|last=Veith|first=George|title=Black April The Fall of South Vietnam 1973-75|publisher=Encounter Books|year=2012|isbn=9781594035722}}{{rp|75}}The Tragedy of the Vietnam War: A South Vietnamese Officer's Analysis - Page 203 Van Nguyen Duong - 2008 "The NVA IV Corps of Major General Hoang Cam, comprised the 341st, 2nd and 7th Divisions plus an artillery regiment and an armored regiment assailed the ARVN 18th Division along inter-provincial Route 20 and at Xuan-Loc, the capital city "{{cite web |title=Colonel General Hoàng Cầm |url=https://www.qdnd.vn/tuong-linh-viet-nam/thuong-tuong-hoang-cam-vi-tuong-khiem-ton-gian-di-685552 |website=qdnd.vn |access-date=15 April 2024}}
Awards and legacy
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Category:Generals of the People's Army of Vietnam
Category:Members of the 4th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam
Category:Members of the 5th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam
Category:Members of the 6th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam