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During the last months of the First Indochina War in 1954, French General Henri Navarre believed that he could get rid of the ...

Also Read | Remembering Dien Bien Phu The army had French commanders, but the soldiery was largely made up of Algerians, Moroccans, Thais, Vietnamese, and many Germans of the famed (or infamous) ...

Created specifically for French Special Forces and French Foreign Legion paratroopers fighting the second IndoChina War during the 1950s, the Vespa TAP ("Troupes Aéro Portées") carried a massive ...

Seven decades after the communist victory, memories have dimmed and the two nations have built a friendship atop the positive legacies of French rule.

The battle of Dien Bien Phu ended nearly seven decades of French colonial rule, and for 70 years afterward, Ms. de Galard, a modest aristocrat, asserted, whenever asked — and the questions ...

Geneviève de Galard with other members of the French military after leaving Dien Bien Phu in what is now Vietnam on May 24, 1954. (AFP/Getty Images) ...

Genevieve de Galard, a nurse dubbed the "Angel of Dien Bien Phu" for treating wounded during a defining 1954 battle in then French Indochina, has died aged 99, with President Emmanuel Macron on Friday ...

Genevieve de Galard, the "Angel of Dien Bien Phu," died at 99, hailed for her "exemplary devotion" by French President Macron.

PARIS: 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 ...

Genevieve de Galard, a nurse dubbed the "Angel of Dien Bien Phu" for treating wounded during a defining 1954 battle in then French Indochina, has died aged 99, with President Emmanuel Macron on ...