Monday, 16/08/2021 16:35 (GMT+7)
A virtual exhibition introducing 200 documents and photos about General Vo Nguyen Giap will open on August 22 to mark the 110th birth anniversary of the General and honour his great contributions to the national cause.
General Vo Nguyen Giap (second from right) and other members
of the Central Military Commission (Photo provided by the Organizing Board)
The exhibition will be held by the Thang Long-Hanoi Heritage Conservation Centre. In particular, a secret dispatch handwritten by General Vo Nguyen Giap on April 7, 1975, urging military units to exert every effort to liberate the south of Vietnam, will be introduced.
This event will give an opportunity for visitors to look back at the heroic revolutionary tradition of the Vietnam People's Army associated with General Giap - a loyal revolutionary soldier, an excellent and close disciple of President Ho Chi Minh and the “eldest brother” of the Vietnam People’s Army.
General Vo Nguyen Giap, whose real name is Vo Giap (alias Van), was born in Loc Thuy commune, Le Thuy district, the central province of Quang Binh on August 25, 1911. He passed away in Hanoi on October 4, 2013 at the age of 103.
He once served as a Politburo member, Secretary of the Central Military Commission, Standing Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of National Defence, Commander-in-Chief of the Vietnamese People’s Army and a National Assembly deputy from the first to seventh tenures.
The General, whose military career starting with his appointment to lead the first Vietnamese revolutionary army unit with only 34 soldiers in 1944, led the Vietnamese people's army from victory to victory during the resistance war against French colonialists and then American imperialists./.
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