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

Under French colonial rule, Vietnam was not an independent state, but part of Indochina. The emotional recounts of the journey of a nation that experienced utopias, conflicts, and the horrors of the ...

The Indochina War was one of the bloodiest chapters in French colonial history. Beginning in 1946, the Vietnamese fought to gain their independence from France. Hundreds of thousands of people ...

INDOCHINA At Christmas time, the Viet Minh radio announced that 300 prisoners would be released as a token of the Communists' devotion to world peace. Last week the first batch of 109, wearing ...

BATTLE OF INDOCHINA . Ho Chi Minh’s advancing Communists closed a siege ring around Laokay, last French outpost in northern Indo-China. By one of history’s ironies, the Vichy French, with ...

“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.

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 ...

Special, Documentary, History, War. 1 season French. From 1940 to 1954, France's brutal war in Indochina marked one of the 20th century's bloodiest decolonisation conflicts.