Seven decades after the communist victory, memories have dimmed and the two nations have built a friendship atop the positive legacies of French rule.

And the front, such as it is, in IndoChina ... said the Communist radio, “the enemy has scored . . .” Napalm & Knives. The French called Tuyhoa the biggest offensive of the war.

and established in 1914 as a detachment of the French colonial army in Ivory Coast, this battalion served France “during both world wars, the Indochina War, and the Algerian War. In 1978 ...

In 1918, Manfred von Richthofen, German World War I flying ... planes began flying French troops to Indochina to reinforce Dien Bien Phu. The city later fell to communist Viet Minh forces.

Valérie André was a helicopter pilot under machine-gun fire during the Indochina war, a military doctor parachuted ... You raised me to be French and I don't want to be German.

Valérie André, a French military officer, brain surgeon and licensed pilot who was believed to be the first woman to fly helicopter rescue missions in combat zones — during the French ...

Ho led a nearly continuous war against the French and, later, the Americans until his death in 1969. An original founder of the Indochina Communist ... attack on Saigon during the Tet offensive.