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 ...

Decolonisation fuelled Le Pen’s nationalistic ideals. He enrolled as a French soldier in the Indochina and Algeria independence wars, and afterwards alluded to torture by French forces in his ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The French Foreign Legion is regarded as the toughest army corps in the world. Its soldiers fight on the ... Morocco and Indochina. And they were often associated with the dubious reputation ...