This sadly unremarkable Associated Press story from Canton, Ohio appeared in the May 4, 1954 Lancaster Eagle-Gazette. I’ve included it to illustrate what law enforcement people have always known, ...

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 ...

This video recreates the Battle of Dien Bien Phu using Google Earth to trace the terrain, fortifications, and troop movements that defined the decisive 1954 clash between French forces and the Viet ...

Sixty years ago, French troops were crushed by Vietnamese fighters in a landmark battle that led to the country's independence, dented Paris's prestige and fuelled independence movements in other ...

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 end of ...

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 soldiers as ...