An American reporter finds himself in the middle of the 57-day battle of Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam between the French army and the Vietminh, which finally resulted in the defeat and surrender of the ...

Thwarted many times in their quest for independence, the Vietnamese independence movement led by Ho Chi Minh finally decisively defeated Vietnam's French colonial overlords at Dien Bien Phu in May of ...

On this day in 1954, an epic battle ended in Vietnam. The French defeat at Dien Bien Phu was a game changer, ending French colonial rule in Southeast Asia and the setting the stage for U.S.

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 ...

Before it became the Vietnam War in the 1960s, there was the French Indochina War. Its defining battle was the siege of the French garrison at Dien Bien Phu. × This ...

The operation will happen "in the coming days", the statement added. Dien Bien Phu in northern Vietnam was the site of an epic battle against Vietnamese communist forces in 1954 that spelt the end of ...