F8F Bearcat was designed for WWII’s fiercest battles — but instead found itself fighting for France in a brutal colonial war, ...

At the conclusion of World War II, though, the French government put the Model 1935A back into production, and it continued to serve French troops during their conflicts in Indochina. Its service ...

SAIGON, Indochina -- Fighting stopped in all of Indochina today for the first time in almost eight years. Peace came to the war-torn peninsula when the cease-fire negotiated at Geneva last July 2 ...

During the Second World War, Japan occupied large parts of Indochina -- present-day Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.After the Japanese surrender in August 1945, the Vietnamese Viet Minh group attempted ...

The French army neurosurgeon and pilot known as “Mademoiselle Helicopter" flew more than 160 wounded men from the battlefields of Indochina to hospitals in Hanoi.

Causes of Vietnam War. 1883-1945 – Cochin-China, southern Vietnam, and Annam and Tonkin, central and northern Vietnam, along with Cambodia and Laos make up colonial empire French Indochina. 1946 ...

This course examines two major conflicts: the French Indochina War and the American war in Vietnam. We will study the long-term origins of these conflicts, their conduct and their significance to the ...

Causes of Vietnam War. 1883-1945 – Cochin-China, southern Vietnam, and Annam and Tonkin, central and northern Vietnam, along with Cambodia and Laos make up colonial empire French Indochina. 1946 ...