Geneviève de Galard, a French air force nurse in the 1950s Indochina war who became known as the “angel of Dien Bien Phu,” the only woman in an embattled garrison amid wounded and dying ...

Sixty years ago this week, French troops were defeated by Vietnamese forces at Dien Bien Phu. As historian Julian Jackson explains, it was a turning point in the history of both nations ...

Vietnam Marks 70th Anniversary of the 'Historic' Dien Bien Phu Victory HANOI (Reuters) - War veterans, party leaders and diplomats gathered in Vietnam's Dien Bien Phu province on Tuesday for an ...

For the French army, Dien Bien Phu is a painful symbol. During this battle (March 13-May 7 1954), the bloodiest since World War II, thousands of French soldiers were killed, wounded or taken prisoner.

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 ...

DIEN BIEN PHU, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam on Tuesday celebrated the 70th anniversary of the battle of Dien Bien Phu in which the French colonial army was defeated by Vietnamese troops, marking the ...

Between 13 March and 7 May 1954, the valley of Dien Bien Phu in northern Vietnam was the site of a ferocious battle between French colonial troops and Vietnamese communist forces. Vietnamese ...

By Adam Nossiter For almost two months, in the hell of the besieged French military base at Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam, Geneviève de Galard, a military nurse, tended to the wounded in a dark ...

Soldiers participate in a parade commemorating the victory of Dien Bien Phu battle in Dien Bien Phu, Vietnam, Tuesday, May 7, 2024. Vietnam is celebrating the 70th anniversary of the battle of ...

RENÉ ADRIAN/ CHRISFER/ ECPAD/DÉFENSE. In 1954 in Dien Bien Phu, Geneviève de Galard spent around 60 days on the battlefield. All of the men who were wounded by bullets or shrapnel, the ...