65 years ago, the Battle of Dien Bien Phu was decisively won by Vietnamese forces, forcing the French out of Indochina. Approximately 150 documents, photos and artifacts relating to the 1954 battle, ...

HANOI (AFP): Ninety-six-year-old Hoang Vinh proudly shows off a metal badge picturing a communist soldier holding a rifle, a reminder of the battle he fought in Vietnam's Dien Bien Phu to push out ...

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 ...

, the French Northern Command called it a “hole-in-the-ground,” and asserted, “Dien Bien Phu is not a strategic sector. and partly in hopes that the enemy could be drawn into a large set-piece battle ...

The final rehearsal for the national-level celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Dien Bien Phu Battle (May 7, 1954 - 2024) took place in the northwestern mountainous province of Dien Bien ...

Genevieve de Galard, a nurse dubbed the "Angel of Dien Bien Phu" for treating wounded during the war in the French colony of Indochina in the 1950s, has died aged 99, with President Emmanuel Macron on ...

The Military Command of Dien Bien city and sappers from the Military High Command of northern mountainous province of Dien Bien have safely detonated an over 300-kg bomb dropped by the US troops ...

Amid numerous ceremonies in France this year marking the centenary of WWI and the 70th anniversary of D-day, another war milestone is being conveniently overlooked: the Viet Minh's defeat of French ...

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 ...