Seven decades after the communist victory, memories have dimmed and the two nations have built a friendship atop the positive legacies of French rule.

German World War I flying ace known as "The Red Baron," was killed by Allied fire over Vaux-sur-Somme, France. In 1954, U.S. Air Force planes began flying French troops to Indochina to reinforce ...

brain surgeon and licensed pilot who was believed to be the first woman to fly helicopter rescue missions in combat zones — during the French-Indochina war of the early 1950s — and who two ...