The Dinassaut (French: [dinaso], Division Navale d'Assaut, "Naval Assault Division") was a type of riverine military unit employed by the French Navy...
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vessels operated by a Dinassaut included LCI, LCT, LCM, LCVP, LCS, LCA, LSSL and fire support vessels. The role of the Dinassaut was to transport, land...
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lessons learned by the French experience in the First Indochina War of Dinassaut and had the task of both transport (of soldiers and equipment) and combat...
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regimental combat teams) and two paratrooper battalions as well as one dinassaut, and the ebb and flow of captured and retaken positions continued until...
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riverine brigades (flottilles fluviales) in 1945–1946. They became the Dinassaut, which were created by General Leclerc in 1947 in order to replace the...
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waterways of the Mekong Delta region with their Divisions navales d'assaut (Dinassaut), a tactic which lasted throughout the First Indochina War, and was later...
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armoured sub-groups, two tank destroyer and reconnaissance squadrons, two Dinassaut, two artillery battalions and engineering units. Operation Lorraine was...
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Support Patrol Boat (a.k.a. Alpha Boat) Brownwater Navy Cambodian Civil War Dinassaut Khmer National Navy Royal Lao Navy Republic of Vietnam Navy Vietnam War...
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with a roof and an Oerlikon 20 mm cannon were used by the French Navy's Dinassauts during the First Indochina War to patrol the Mekong, along with other...
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the First Indochina War, he was officer in an assault naval division (Dinassaut). In 1954, he was promoted to lieutenant de vaisseau. He attempted to...
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Singapore to Vietnam, and contributed a shore party to man them in the Dinassauts (river flotillas). As Chinese Nationalist troops began withdrawing from...
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riverine brigades (flottilles fluviales) in 1945–1946. They became the Dinassaut, which were created by General Leclerc in 1947 in order to replace the...
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vessels unsuited for operations in shallow rivers. France developed the Dinassaut (assault river division) concept early in their effort to fight communist...
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