«I am a mother who does not receive news from her son Roberto Balzano, who. An expatriate in Belgium for work, he found himself somehow dragged into this accursed Legion. I entrust my hope to you ...

ROUND TWO, 1946-49 The Local War. Through 1947 and 1948 the Indo-China war indeed seemed to be little more than another colonial war. In February 1947, the French drove the Communists away from Hanoi.

The French Foreign Legion was created on March 9, 1831, by a royal ordinance issued by Louis Philippe I, King of the French from 1830 to 1848.

This is chiefly an account of events in French Indochina following the Japanese occupation up to the fall of Dien Bien Phu and the Communist take-over in Northern Vietnam. The author served on the ...

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 ...

12/14/2024 December 14, 2024. The French Foreign Legion is regarded as the toughest army corps in the world. Its soldiers fight on the frontlines of France's wars.