At Dien Bien Phu, one of history’s most dramatic sieges, the Bearcat played a desperate role. This is the story of how a WWII ...

Lieutenant-General Pham Hong Cu (second from right) in a photo with General Vo Nguyen Giap (centre) in 1964. Cu said that without General Giap’s tactical expertise at Dien Bien Phu, he and many other ...

Medical lieutenant Sauveur Verdaguer praised their attitude every time he mentioned them and in particular in Les Lettres de Dien Bien Phu: "They were admirable for their devotion at all times ...

Vietnam won the Dien ... Bien Phu remains a source of great inspiration for the entire nation in the national construction and development," Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army and ...

Senior Lieutenant Colonel Dinh Chu Khiem, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Military Aviation Brigade 918, is a Tay ethnic minority man. He said he feels proud about conducting flights to celebrate the ...

HANOI -- Vietnam commemorated the 70th anniversary of its victory over French forces in Dien Bien Phu, a town in the northwest ... Nguyen Van Ky, a 92-year-old veteran, reflected on the battle ...

By May, after weeks of brutal fighting, French forces surrendered, ending the battle of Dien Bien Phu and the French Indochina War. Western countries saw that war as essential to stopping the ...

Vo Nguyen Giap, the Vietnamese general who masterminded the defeat of French colonial forces at Dien Bien Phu and the Tet Offensive that turned many Americans against the Vietnam War, has died at 102.