On the site of Dien Bien Phu, in Vietnam, the anonymous graves of two French soldiers, killed in 1954, whose bodies were discovered in 2022 and buried, without being claimed by Paris.

Vietnamese soldiers attacking a French stronghold on Eliane Hill, Dien Bien Phu, in May 1954. AFP / AFP. Seventy years after the battle of Dien Bien Phu, which ended on May 7 and 8, 1954, the ...

The 56 days of shelling and direct clashes left 13,000 dead or missing on both sides. More than 3,000 of them were soldiers of different nationalities fighting under the French flag.

France is to repatriate from Vietnam the bodies of six soldiers who died in Dien Bien Phu, the country's last stand in colonial Indochina, the defence ministry said.

France is to repatriate from Vietnam the bodies of six soldiers who died in Dien Bien Phu, ... had been reported to the French embassy in Vietnam in 2012, 2021 and 2022, ...

Three veterans have visited Dien Bien Phu City from France to relive the memories in which French soldiers fought and were defeated by Vietnamese troops in the summer of 1954. Returning to the city in ...

Soldiers participate in a parade commemorating the victory of Dien Bien Phu battle in Dien Bien Phu, Vietnam, Tuesday, May 7, 2024. ... ending the French colonial rule in Vietnam.

France, which also lost a war in Vietnam, sent a minister to last year's celebrations of the 70th anniversary of the end of the battle of Dien Bien Phu, when French colonial rule collapsed.