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.

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.

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 ...

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.