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

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

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 ...

“We Dared to Fly” is Mr. Reeder’s third book, and focuses on his first tour of duty in Indochina flying OV-1 Mohawk airplanes with the 131st Aviation Company from October 1968 to November 1969.

Valérie André, a French army captain, doctor and helicopter pilot, stands in front of her helicopter in Tonkin, in northern Indochina, on July 30, 1952.

Stories categorised in 'French Indochina (Vietnam)'. These stories may contain references to other themes. Day 27 - Ta Ya Koi, Yunnan Province, three miles from Mekong River. To avoid being ...

From 1940 to 1954, France's brutal war in Indochina marked one of the 20th century's bloodiest decolonisation conflicts. We revisit the forgotten precursor to the Vietnam War through vivid images ...