Colonial war junkie - Anxious to see action, Le Pen volunteered for service in two wars in French colonies -- the First Indochina War (1946-1954) in Vietnam, and then in Algeria (1954-1962). Shortly ...
Seven decades after the communist victory, memories have dimmed and the two nations have built a friendship atop the positive legacies of French rule.
The French army neurosurgeon and pilot known as “Mademoiselle Helicopter" flew more than 160 wounded men from the battlefields of Indochina to hospitals in Hanoi.