 After the war he became the Deputy Chief of the General Staff and later Deputy Minister of Defence of Vietnam before retired in 2000.Trần Hanh, realname is Trần Huy Hanh, was born in 1932 to a poor family in Lộc Vượng commune, Mỹ Lộc, Nam Định.He began to participate in Youth Union in December 1946 and the revolutionary movement in April 1947.