Most were French soldiers, but there were also many enemy ... of women helicopter pilots that Phelan co-founded in 1955. After Indochina, where she earned the French Croix de Guerre, the Grand ...

The Indochina War was one of the bloodiest ... The ensuing battles between the Viet Minh and the French forces, including local soldiers fighting on the side of the French, were marked by extreme ...

A Cambodian soldier was killed on Wednesday after an exchange of gunfire with the Thai army at the border, a rare fatality ...

Those who remain unnamed would be laid to rest in a cemetery for soldiers who lost their lives in the 1946-1954 Indochina war. Vietnam’s victory over the French in Dien Bien Phu led to the ...

She flew 128 missions and rescued 168 soldiers during the French-Indochina War. Those missions took her to the most dangerous combat zones imaginable. Despite red crosses painted prominently on ...

a French air force nurse in the 1950s Indochina war who became known as the “angel of Dien Bien Phu,” the only woman in an embattled garrison amid wounded and dying soldiers as well-armed ...

A muggy Saigon, late 1945. Stationed at a military camp in French Indochina, two young men--Robert and André--become close friends as they share the boredom and excitement of waiting for their ...