Model of Điện Biên Phủ battlefield

When I was a school girl, I was taken to the Military Museum in Hanoi where I also watched the same model. I like the final minute when Vietnam's flag appeared and flew on the roof top of the French headquarters. On this trip, I saw the same model at the Điện Biên Phủ museum.

Where the French war ended

June 30th 2009
Điện Biên Phủ is a remote city inside the Mường Thanh valley in the north west of Vietnam, only 36.5km from the Lao border. The ethnic minority people living in this area are the Thai and H'mong. The city is famous for the site of the battle, where the French troops were defeated by Việt Minh (the League for the Independence of Vietnam - Việt Nam độc lập đồng minh hội) force ... read more

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The conquest of Vietnam by France began in 1858 and was completed by 1884. It became part of French Indochina in 1887. Independence was declared after World War II, but the French continued to rule until 1954 when they were defeated by Communist forc... ... read more

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