The First Indochina War began after France tried to reestablish colonial control over Vietnam following World War II.
In French Indochina, the Bearcat became a close support aircraft in a brutal colonial war far removed from the naval air combat it had been designed for. It struck troop concentrations, supply routes, ...
1883-1945 – Cochin-China, southern Vietnam, and Annam and Tonkin, central and northern Vietnam, along with Cambodia and Laos make up colonial empire French Indochina. 1946 – Communists in the north ...