DIEN BIEN PHU, VietnamDIEN BIEN PHU, Vietnam — Vietnam on Tuesday celebrated the 70th anniversary of the battle of Dien Bien Phu in which the French colonial army was defeated by Vietnamese troops, ...

Vietnam won the Dien Bien Phu battle 70 years ago, forcing the French government to sign the Geneva Agreement in July 1954 and marking the end of the French military presence in the Indochina. The ...

May 7, 2024, marked the 70th anniversary of the battle of Dien Bien Phu, when Vietnamese troops defeated the French colonial army, ending almost a century of French colonial rule. A commemoration ...

A legendary journalist’s account of his meeting with President Ho Chi Minh about the battle that ended French colonialism. from Wilfred Burchett, North of the 17th Parallel, 1955 A sun-helmet lay on ...

VietNamNet Bridge – The 22,000 m2 museum was inaugurated in Dien Bien Phu City last May to celebrate the 60th Dien Bien Phu Victory. VietNamNet Bridge – The 22,000 m2 museum was inaugurated in Dien ...

At Dien Bien Phu, France attempted to force a decisive victory, only to face General Giáp’s surrounding trenches, heavy ...

‘And this,’ our guide said, ‘is where Colonel Piroth committed suicide.’ We were standing by a fenced-off scrap of wasteland on the edge of a busy market. The only evidence that anything of ...

The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was the decisive engagement in the first Indochina War (1946–54). In late 1953, Viet Minh commander Vo Nguyen Giap amassed troops and placed heavy artillery in caves of the ...

Long ReadOf the women present at the camp during the major French defeat of the Indochina War in March 1954, official history has only remembered one: Geneviève de Galard, a nurse. Despite their ...

It is a curiosity of history that the French lost control of Dien Bien Phu, in the northwest corner of Vietnam, two years before the famous 1954 battle there that spelled the end of French colonial ...