Part one WE recently commemorated the “Araw ng Kagitingan” (Day of Valor) on April 9. Previously called the “Fall of Bataan,” ...

1954 – Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Minh forces defeated French troops at Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam. The battle had lasted nearly ...

They'd watched overnight as the bombardments grew closer, and observed through binoculars as the last U.S. Marines piled into ...

1887: France colonizes parts of Southeast Asia, calling it French Indochina, which included Vietnam. 1930: Ho Chi Minh founded the Indochinese Communist Party. 1940: Months after Nazi Germany invaded ...

1883-1945 – Cochin-China, southern Vietnam, and Annam and Tonkin, central and northern Vietnam, along with Cambodia and Laos make up colonial empire French Indochina. 1946 – Communists in the ...

The end of French Indochina meant major changes in the region, including the partitioning of Vietnam into Communist North Vietnam under Ho Chi Minh, and U.S.-aligned South Vietnam. This year marks ...

The end of French Indochina meant major changes in the region, including the partitioning of Vietnam into North Vietnam under Ho Chi Minh, and U.S.-aligned South Vietnam. This year marks the 50th ...

The end of French Indochina meant major changes in the region, including the partitioning of Vietnam into communist North Vietnam under Ho Chi Minh, and US-aligned South Vietnam. This year marks ...

reaching into a huge wicker basket for stubby baguettes — a staple in Vietnam since the French Indochina era (1857-1954). I watch as he slathers their insides with pig-liver pâté, coriander ...

He served in Korea, China, Japan and Vietnam. His ship was the last to leave Haiphong Harbor in what was French Indochina in 1954, the day before it fell to the Communist forces and was declared ...