commander, 8 engagements
Battles of Trần Văn Trà
Colonel general of People's Army of Vietnam (1918–1996)
Trần Văn Trà is recorded as a commander at 8 placed engagements in the atlas between 1965 and 1975: 5 battles and 3 campaigns across 2 present-day countries, most in Vietnam (7), Cambodia (1). Taken in date order, the sites lie 636 km apart end to end, 91 km between engagements on average. Most belong to Vietnam War (7), Cambodian Civil War (1).
Engagements by year
In time order
Wars 2
Engagements by date
| Date | Engagement | Place | From the last | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | Operation Hump | Biên Hòa, Vietnam | Allied victory | |
| 1968 | Battle of Saigon | Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam | 48 km SW | South Vietnamese-American victory; Communist attack... |
| 1968 | Tet Offensive | South Vietnam, Vietnam | 45 km NE | U.S. – South Vietnamese victory |
| 1971 | Operation Chenla I | Cambodia | 274 km NW | Stalemate; Initially;Cambodia victory, in Withdrawal; FANK... |
| 4 April 1972 | Battle of Loc Ninh | Lộc Ninh, Vietnam | 183 km SE | Viet Cong–North Vietnamese victory |
| 1972 | Easter Offensive | South Vietnam, Vietnam | 85 km SE | U.S. and South Vietnamese victory |
| 1975 | 1975 spring offensive | South Vietnam, Vietnam | 0 km N | North Vietnamese victory; Fall of Saigon to the PAVN and... |
| 30 April 1975 | Fall of Saigon | Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam | 0 km NE | North Vietnamese victory |
Sources and method
Commanders come from the commander fields of the English Wikipedia infoboxes of these engagements (CC BY-SA 4.0), resolved to one article each; portrait, dates and description from Wikidata (CC0) and Wikimedia Commons, SSGT Herman Kokojan, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Distances are great-circle distances between recorded sites, not marches.