- Source: 6th Vietnamese Parachute Battalion
- 6th Vietnamese Parachute Battalion
- 1st Vietnamese Parachute Battalion
- List of French paratrooper units
- 502nd Infantry Regiment (United States)
- 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment
- Republic of Vietnam Airborne Division
- French Foreign Legion
- Airborne forces
- 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment
- 1st Foreign Parachute Heavy Mortar Company
The 6th Vietnamese Parachute Battalion (Fr: 6e bataillon de parachutistes vietnamiens) was a French-Vietnamese paratroop battalion formed in French Indochina in 1954.
Operational history
The 6th Vietnamese Parachute Battalion (6 BPVN) was one of five battalions of Vietnamese paratroopers raised by the French Army between 1951 and 1957 as part of General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny's policy to establish a Vietnamese Army.
Commanding officers
See also
1st Vietnamese Parachute Battalion
3rd Vietnamese Parachute Battalion
5th Vietnamese Parachute Battalion
7th Vietnamese Parachute Battalion
1st Cambodian Parachute Regiment
1st Laotian Parachute Battalion