During the last months of the First Indochina War in 1954, French General Henri Navarre believed that he could get rid of the ...

1946-1954: The First Indochina War. Two soldiers of the French-Indochinese Union army man their guns behind a sandbag strongpoint thrown up in a street of Hanoi, ...

On this date in 1954 the first Indochina War officially ended. After a long war in Viet Nam, culminating in the nearly four month battle of Dien Bien Phu, the French withdrew under the the Geneva ...

SAIGON, Indochina -- Fighting stopped in all of Indochina today for the first time in almost eight years. Peace came to the war-torn peninsula when the cease-fire negotiated at Geneva last July 2 ...

On April 21, 1954, U.S. Air Force planes began flying French troops to Indochina to reinforce Dien Bien Phu. The city later fell to communist Viet Minh forces.

Editor's note: It was 1954, and the surrounded French garrison was facing defeat in what would become known as the First Indochina War. What happened next has been a source of controversy for decades.

What if our understanding of "modern" counter-insurgency is all wrong? This talk, based on extensive research in Cambodian, French, and Vietnamese archives and libraries, focuses on a neglected part ...

France is still trying to find the bodies of soldiers who went missing during the First Indochina War. Two men have spent decades searching for clues about the death of their uncle, who served in ...