haiphong

This is why low value manufacturing began moving from Guangdong to the Haiphong Delta in the mid 2000s and 2010s, and is now moving to Laos+Cambodia.

Anyway, US bombers were forbidden to drop bombs within 15 miles or so of Haiphong harbor, probably because Russian ships were known to visit there regularly.

It is followed in part by the French narrow-guage railway from Haiphong to Kunming and also spanned by some amazing bridges and these days many dams.

The only other narrow gauge line in China is the late 19th century / very early 20th century French line from Haiphong in Vietnam to Kunming in Yunnan province, China.

In late spring 1966, just before we began bombing Hanoi and Haiphong in North Vietnam, Americans split 50/50 as to whether we should bomb these targets.

I had to find a hospital in Haiphong once.

> Infuriated by India's criticism of American bombings of Hanoi and Haiphong in the course of the Vietnam War, the irascible Texan put food shipments on such a tight leash that India literally lived from ship to mouth.

Various studies place the biggest variety (3-hull trimaran type, 2-hull type, sail types) and temporal location of the initial development circa the Philippines, though there has been some suggestion that coastal Vietnam (probably around the northern portion, near Haiphong on the Red River delta and Halong Bay) may be the true home.

I'm saying that if you're going to fight a war in Vietnam, you should land the Marines at Haiphong and capture Hanoi, rather than idle away ten years and tens of thousands of American lives on a failed adventure, not to mention the hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese, Laotians, and Cambodians that died along the way.

Over 12 days, B-52s flew 729 sorties[148] and dropped 15,237 tons of bombs on Hanoi, Haiphong, and other targets.[90][149] " >If Hanoi had been carpet bombed, it would have been leveled.

In Vietnam it's the same story except labor moves away from small towns to megacities because in much of VN, the rural safety net (derisively called "freebies" in India) is weak-to-nonexistent pushing labor migration away from small towns to Saigon, Hanoi, and Haiphong.

According to historian Marilyn Young, Duck Hook “explored a new range of options [intended to end the war], including a land invasion of the North, the systematic bombing of dikes so as to destroy the food supply, and the saturation bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong.” Huh, that does sound like non-nuclear escalation.

John Service and Caroline were married on November 9, 1933 in Haiphong, French Indo-China (present day Vietnam) where John’s father was stationed.

The main difference is most factories in VN end up getting built in the Red River Delta region (Hanoi-Haiphong), so there is a strong network effect.

I managed to construct something similar as a Google Map of Haiphong, Vietnam, a few years ago, based on images collected from scanned postcards of the French colonial era.