These are our pictures from when we are out as the IIIe BM/3e RTA (3e
Bataillon de Marche du 3e Régiment de Tirailleurs Algériens).
Patrol mission in the swamp area north of CR6 alongside the Day River.
3BM/3RTA operated in this area of de Lattre line in Tonkin outside of Ha
Dong and on the RC6 in the end of 1952, before beeing sent to Cochinchina
in July 1953.
(7 photos)
3/3 was attached
to GM 9 in 09/53. They operated in the Tonkin Delta until 12/53, when they
were air-transported to Dien Bien Phu. Here are photos from a security
mission on a section of the Hanoi - Ninh Binh railway.