Lieutenant General Aketo Nakamura, commanding the Fifth Division of the Army of the Empire of Japan begins his occupation of the Vichy French enclave of Indochina, but leaves the colonial administration intact.
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References:
Stanley A. Karnow, Vietnam: A History, (1983; New York: Penguin, 1997), 688.
Order of battle for the Japanese invasion of French Indochina – Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_battle_for_the_Japanese_invasion_of_French_Indochina
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