On this date in 1954 the first Indochina War officially ended. After a long war in Viet Nam, culminating in the nearly four month battle of Dien Bien Phu, the French withdrew under the the Geneva ...

During the last months of the First Indochina War in 1954, French General Henri Navarre believed that he could get rid of the Viet Minh Communist guerrilla if he concentrated his forces at the ...

SAIGON, Indochina -- Fighting stopped in all of Indochina today for the first time in almost eight years. Peace came to the war-torn peninsula when the cease-fire negotiated at Geneva last July 2 ...

That day, President Richard Nixon announced that "for the first time in 12 years, no American military forces are in Vietnam." The last two Americans to be killed in the Vietnam War too place on ...

On April 21, 1954, U.S. Air Force planes began flying French troops to Indochina to reinforce Dien Bien Phu. The city later fell to communist Viet Minh forces.

Instead, it fractured sovereignty among numerous parastates and militias, leading the rural south to be balkanized by the end of the war. Examining this process helps us understand not simply the ...

7554 takes place towards the end of the First Indochina War, leading up to France's surrender on 7 May 1954 after the Battle of Dien Bien Phu--hence '7554.' ...

Symbolically, it marked the end of the First Indochina War. But as that name implies, the struggle for Vietnam was far from over. For in the months thereafter, the Eisenhower Administration, freed ...

France is still trying to find the bodies of soldiers who went missing during the First Indochina War. Two men have spent decades searching for clues about the death of their uncle, who served in ...