The depot was the target of two successful attacks by Vietnamese forces. The first occurred on August 31, 1952. The second ...

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

Over the past two centuries, humans have locked up enough water in dams to shift Earth's poles slightly away from the ...

It takes two to tango. A plague on both your houses. Six of one, half a dozen of the other. The British have a deep stock of ...

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 ...

Our soldiers responded without hesitation, killing several enemy fighters and capturing a Taliban machine gunner. At that ...

The Pearl Harbor Avenger Portsmouth Naval Shipyard got orders to build new submarines on December 15, 1941, just eight days ...

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 ...

French citizens are returning to set up businesses and foundations that preserve and promote their unique culture ...

The consolidation of Vietnam’s provinces into 34 administrative units marks a historic turning point that creates potential ...