Allied operational success
- Việt Minh loses control over half of country and retreats to the countryside
- Restoration of French rule in Indochina.
- First Indochina War begins.
Japan
Việt Minh
Douglas Gracey
Philippe Leclerc Hồ Chí Minh Võ Nguyên Giáp Trường Chinh
40 dead United Kingdom
France
- [1] by the British, and also known as Nam Bộ kháng chiến (English: Southern Resistance War)[2] by the Vietnamese, was a post–World War II armed conflict involving a largely British-Indian and French task force and Japanese troops from the Southern Expeditionary Army Group, versus the Vietnamese communist movement, the Viet Minh, for control of the southern half of the country, after the unconditional Japanese surrender.
The Indochina Wars are generally numbered as three: the first being France's unsuccessful eight-year conflict with the Vietminh nationalist forces (1946–1954); the second being the war for control of South Vietnam, featuring an unsuccessful American-led intervention, ending in 1975; finally, the conflict in Cambodia, sparked by the Vietnamese invasion in 1978. This numbering overlooks the brief but significant initial conflict — from 1945 to 1946 — that grew out of the British occupation force landing at Saigon to receive the surrender of Japanese forces.