A commemoration ceremony was held at a stadium in the center of Dien Bien Phu, which is now a bustling city of more than 80,000 people. French Defense Minister Sebastian Lecornu also attended.

It affirms the significance and historical value of the Dien Bien Phu Victory, as well as the overall development of the Vietnam People's Army. On March 13, 1954, the Vietnamese revolutionary army ...

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 ...

In early 1954, Viet Minh forces under Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap began the siege of Dien Bien Phu. On March 28, 1954, Ms. de Galard was aboard a Dakota that was making a landing in fog-shrouded Dien Bien ...

War veterans, party leaders and diplomats gathered in Vietnam's Dien Bien Phu province on Tuesday for an event to mark the 70th anniversary of the country's victory over French colonial forces.

A French nurse dubbed the “angel of Dien Bien Phu” for her care of wounded and dying soldiers during the Indochina war in the 1950s has died at the age of 99. Geneviève de Galard became a ...

Dien Bien Phu was one of the decisive battles of the post-1945 era. Not since the British were turfed out of Afghanistan in the 19th century had an indigenous army inflicted so resounding a defeat on ...

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 end of the French occupation of ...

The battle of Dien Bien Phu ended nearly seven decades of French colonial rule, and for 70 years afterward, Ms. de Galard, a modest aristocrat, asserted, whenever asked — and the questions ...

Vietnam has started commemorations for the 70th anniversary of the Dien Bien Phu battle in which the French colonial army was defeated by Vietnamese troops.