Hello all, was just curious if there has ever been an Indochina campaign? From my studies there were so many different planes, tanks and other vehicles involved that I can imagine what this group would come up with. Not offering to do anything, just stirring the pot! Ha ha Wayne
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That’d be interesting… A lot of leftover WW2 era armor and aircraft was used by the French in Indochina, mainly Vietnam, before we got involved.
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I’m more interested in the “advisor” period that came afterwards, between the French withdrawal and the commitment of US units in 1965. But I do like the figures of the French involvement with their variety of uniforms. I did this Academy Legionnaire figure a few years ago
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We have not had a specific Indochine (Indochina) era GB that I am aware of, but a couple of ‘Vietnam’ builds covered the wider conflicts of Indochine through to end of 'Nam.
It is actually one I was thinking of suggesting next year. as there are a lot of stock kits out there of French use vehicles. I got interested in the vehicles of the era when I started an LVT4 with Bofors for the Suez campaign a few years ago (sadly it is now on the shelf of shame). The vehicles were first used in Indochine:
You also have the M36 Jacksons, M29C Weasels, the LVT types, M3 half-tracks, White Scout cars, M5A1 and M8 Stuarts, M8 Greyhound, M24 Chaffee, GMC CCKW trucks, etc.
It was not just US originated stuff they used either. Their own Panhard 178s, trucks, Japanese Type 95 tanks, British Universal Carriers, Coventry armoured cars, Humber Scout Cars, etc.
I am kind of talking myself into leading another build after the two that I am leading now…
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This is one I might be interested in.
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Indochina would be a fantastic campaign! It’s never been done. From Japanese Type 95’s to US M48’s and everything in between.
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It could potentially run to cover from the beginning of the Vietminh insurgency until the Vietnam/Cambodia-Vietnam/China battles… all are a related chain of events.
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With that, all I’m thinking is Duck Hunter camo, maroon berets, M2 carbines and some early Colt 601s.
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Just always thought the pre WW2 colonial and WW2 Japanese Occupation period was a crazy time with all the different factions trying to get control. The colonial thinking of the old empires had so much to do with the global decisions. That whole part of the world was treated as an after thoght to the big picture Sorry, us colonials have a soft spot for rebellions!. Wayne
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The interwar colonial conflicts were always something I was interested in. How the bigger conflicts stirred the smaller ones, and how the big powers tried to deal with them. As now, the big boys think they know what’s best! Wayne
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