Getty Images French veterans of the Dien Bien Phu battle, including Geneviève de Galard on 30 April 2004 After several trips evacuating wounded men from Dien Bien Phu, she was marooned there at ...

Vietnam was a French colony when communist-led rebels defeated French troops at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu. At that point, the country was divided between north and south, with communists in ...

In 1954, the French were finally defeated by the Viet Minh at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu. The French had tried to block a communist supply line and set up a defensive system at an army base in ...

In 1954, the French were finally defeated by the Viet Minh at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu. This defeat was formalised in the Geneva Agreement and temporarily separated Vietnam into two zones ...