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Đàm Thị Loan
Đàm Thị Nết
Lieutenant colonel Dam Thi Loan
Nickname Thanh Xuân
Minh Phượng
Born 26 August 1926
Died 28 January 2010(2010-01-28) (aged 83)
Place of birth Hòa An District, Cao Bằng Province, French Indochina
Place of death Hanoi, Vietnam
Buried at Thanh Tước Cemetery
Allegiance Flag of North Vietnam (1945-1955) Viet Minh
Flag of Vietnam Vietnam
Service/branch Flag of the People's Army of Vietnam Vietnam People's Army
FNL Flag Viet Cong
Years of service 1944–1975
Rank File:Vietnam People's Army Lieutenant Colonel.jpg Lieutenant colonel
Battles/wars First Indochina War
Vietnam War
Awards Vietnam Independence Order ribbon Order of Independence
Resistance Order ribbon Resistance Order
Vietnam Hochiminh Order ribbon Glorious Fighter Medal (3)
Spouse(s) Hoàng Văn Thái (m. 194586)

Đàm Thị Loan (1926–2010), born Đàm Thị Nết, was a lieutenant colonel in the People's Army of Vietnam. She was one of three female soldiers in the original Vietnam Armed Propaganda Unit for National Liberation in 1944 and was in the honor guard hoisting the flag of the new independent country in the Independence ceremony held at Ba Dinh Square on September 2, 1945. Her husband was general Hoàng Văn Thái, the first chief of staff of the Vietnam People's Army and the military leader of Viet Cong.

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