Vietnam won the Dien Bien Phu battle 70 years ago, forcing the French government to sign the Geneva Agreement in July 1954 and marking the end of the French military presence in the Indochina. The ...

In 1954, French forces entrenched in a remote valley at Dien Bien Phu faced a determined siege by the Viet Minh. Heavy artillery, dug into the surrounding hills, isolated and pounded the French ...

Moments of the Dien Bien Phu battle, in which the Vietnamese defeated the French to reclaim an important valley, were captured by many photojournalists 70 years ago. The Communist Party's Politburo ...

The model draped in various poses over the M24 Chaffee light-tank standing guard at the foot of ‘A1 Hill’, otherwise known to its French defenders as ‘Eliane 2’, was probably unaware of its ...

HANOI -- Vietnam commemorated the 70th anniversary of its victory over French forces in Dien Bien Phu, a town in the northwest of the country, on May 7, reflecting on its historic fight for ...

Captured French soldiers, escorted by Vietnamese troops, walk to a prisoner-of-war camp in Dien Bien Phu. (Wikimedia Commons) Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap earned his reputation as one of history's great ...

HANOI, Indochina -- The French fortress of Dien Bien Phu fell to overwhelming hordes of Communist Viet Minn attackers today, ending a 57-day siege. The end of the gallant defense against overwhelming ...

Long ReadOf the women present at the camp during the major French defeat of the Indochina War in March 1954, official history has only remembered one: Geneviève de Galard, a nurse. Despite their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Soldiers dressed as Vietminh (communist) troops at the time of the Dien Bien Phu battle parade during official celebrations of the ...

‘And this,’ our guide said, ‘is where Colonel Piroth committed suicide.’ We were standing by a fenced-off scrap of wasteland on the edge of a busy market. The only evidence that anything of ...

The French strong-points at Dien Bien Phu in northwest Vietnam are falling again. Not, as in 1954, to Viet-Minh attacks, but rather to the bulldozers of progress. The entrenched ‘air-land’ camp of ...