Lieutenant General Aketo Nakamura, commanding the Fifth Division of the Army of the Empire of Japan begins his five-year 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
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