Đỗ Văn Cầm,
nom de guerre
A pseudonym (; ) or alias () is a fictitious name that a person or group assumes for a particular purpose, which differs from their original or true name (orthonym). This also differs from a new name that entirely or legally replaces an individua ...
Hoàng Cầm (April 30, 1920 – August 19, 2013),
was a Vietnamese general.
He was born in Cao Sơn, Ứng Hòa,
Hà Đông. He led the
4th Corps (Vietnam People's Army)
4th Corps ( vi, Quân đoàn 4) or Cửu Long Corps ( vi, Binh đoàn Cửu Long, literally: ''Corps of Cửu Long'' or "Corps of the Mekong") is one of the four regular army corps of the People's Army of Vietnam. First organized in 1974 during th ...
(NVA IV) against the South Vietnamese in the 1974
battle of Phuoc Long
A battle is an occurrence of combat in warfare between opposing military units of any number or size. A war usually consists of multiple battles. In general, a battle is a military engagement that is well defined in duration, area, and force ...
.
There is another by the name of Hoàng Cầm (1916–1996), who was a soldier inventor of the Viet Minh
Hoàng Cầm stove
The Hoàng Cầm stove, named after its inventor, Hoàng Cầm, the chef, a Viet Minh soldier in 1951, was a stove intake and chimney system which diffused and dissipated smoke from cooking which prevented aerial detection of smoke by American mili ...
.
[The Vietnamese War: Revolution and Social Change in the Mekong Volume 1 - Page 249 David W. P. Elliott - 2003 "... and cook without fire (this certainly refers to the famous Hoang Cam stove, named after its Viet Minh inventor, who discovered a way of"]
References
1920 births
2013 deaths
Generals of the People's Army of Vietnam
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