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

German World War I flying ace known as "The Red Baron," was killed by Allied fire over Vaux-sur-Somme, France. In 1954, U.S. Air Force planes began flying French troops to Indochina to reinforce ...

125 Moroccan soldiers escaped the French army during the Indochina war in Vietnam ... arrange a meeting with the Moroccan deserters. The first Moroccan soldiers to desert did so in 1954, and ...

first in the Vietnamese theater and later in Algeria.” Known as “Madame Ventilator,” she left for the war during the French occupation of Indochina as part of the expeditionary corps ...

She was the first woman to fly rescue missions in a combat zone, in Indochina and Algeria. She was also the first Frenchwoman ...

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 ...

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-Indochina war ...