In a historic step, France’s lower house of parliament has voted unanimously to recognise the suffering of people repatriated ...

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 ...

In total, between 1,200 and 1,300 soldiers of the French Far East Expeditionary Corps ... agreement consummating France's withdrawal from Indochina was signed in July, some bodies were repatriated ...

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 ...

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 ...