Đàm Thị Loan

In this Vietnamese name, the surname is Đàm, but is often simplified to Dam in English-language text. In accordance with Vietnamese custom, this person should be referred to by the given name, Loan.

Đàm Thị Loan Đàm Thị Nết
Nickname(s)	Thanh Xuân Minh Phượng
Born	26 August 1926 Hòa An District, Cao Bằng Province, French Indochina
Died	28 January 2010(2010-01-28) (aged 83) Hanoi, Vietnam
Buried	Thanh Tước Cemetery
Allegiance	Viet Minh Vietnam
Service/branch	Vietnam People's Army Viet Cong
Years of service	1944–1975
Rank	Lieutenant colonel
Battles/wars	First Indochina War Vietnam War
Awards	Order of Independence Resistance Order Glorious Fighter Medal (3)
Spouse(s)	Hoàng Văn Thái ​ ​ (m. 1945; died 1986)​

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.