The death was announced by France’s Foreign Legion, but no other details ... just before the fall of the French stronghold in Dien Bien Phu in what is now Vietnam. During the battlefield ...

French General Henri Navarre believed that he could get rid of the Viet Minh Communist guerrilla if he concentrated his forces at the valley of Dien Bien Phu, an isolated location deep into enemy ...

Piroth was the deputy commander of French forces at Dien Bien Phu, a one-armed war hero and gunnery expert ... According to the French foreign minister, Georges Bidault, Dulles had taken him aside on ...

French veterans of the Dien Bien Phu battle, including Geneviève de ... and she was made an honorary member of the Foreign Legion. In her memoirs she said: “In Dien Bien Phu I was a little ...

Genevieve de Galard, the "Angel of Dien Bien Phu," died at 99, hailed for her "exemplary devotion" by French President Macron ... the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour. ALSO READ: Eiffel ...

But the French nurse was remembered by history as "the only woman at Dien Bien Phu," as she herself would ... of a non-commissioned officer in the Foreign Legion, Rolf Rodel, in memory of 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 ...

Vietnam is celebrating the 70th anniversary of the battle of Dien Bien Phu, where the French army was defeated by Vietnamese troops, ending the French colonial rule in Vietnam. (AP Photo/Hau Dinh) ...

By Adam Nossiter For almost two months, in the hell of the besieged French military base at Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam, Geneviève de Galard, a military nurse, tended to the wounded in a dark ...

The English translation of her memoir, The Angel of Dien Bien Phu, was published in 2010. In 2014, Galard received France's highest honour, the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour. French military ...

Genevieve de Galard, a French nurse ... The Angel of Dien Bien Phu, was published in 2010. In 2014, Galard received France’s highest honour, the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour.