The four crash locations of the US aircrafts shot down in Hanoi’s operations of defense against the bombing of the US Air Force from 1965 to 1972 that were given relic name plates were those associated with the victory of the troops and the people of the capital city. The soldiers of the Hanoi Air Defense Command (now the 361st Air Defense Division) were the key to defeating Imperial America’s two destructive attempts, especially in the Hanoi air defense operation of December 1972. The four newly-recognized relics were battleground of Dai Dong (Dai Mach, Dong Anh), battleground of Thuong Thuy (Duc Thuong, Hoai Duc), battleground of Thanh Mai (Thanh Mai, Thanh Oai), and battleground of Phu Thuy (Phu Thi, Gia Lam).
Relic name plates installed at 4 relic sites of the “12 days and nights of Battle of Dien Bien Phu in the air” in Hanoi – photo of wreckage of a B.52 aircraft shot down on Hoang Hoa Tham Street, Hanoi at 11 p.m. on December 27, 1972. (Photo by Minh Truong/Vietnam News Agency)
The installation of name plates at the crash locations of US aircrafts will remind each generation of Hanoians in particular and Vietnamese in general about a painful but heroic historical period that the capital city has gone through.
Also on this occasion, Hanoi Department of Culture and Sport requested the districts and town to organize appropriate activities at the relic sites and memorial places of historical, revolutionary, and resistance events that had been given name plates previously or were in relation to the 45th anniversary of the victory of Battle of Dien Bien Phu in the air, propagate information relating to the victory of Battle of Dien Bien Phu in the air, organize tour activities to introduce the historical significance of the event, organize talk shows with veterans …