What happened at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu? On May 7, 1954, France experienced a disaster in Dien Bien Phu, in the northwest of what is now Vietnam.
Dien Bien Phu is at the same time the name of a mythical battle and that of a military fiasco. A modern army capitulates to soldiers, insurgent colonized people, without an air force or navy but with an asset underestimated by French strategists: numerous cannons offered by their ally, communist China.
Why and how did France lose this strategic battle? Answer in maps and period archives in this new episode of our #Flashback video series.
Негізгі бет Dien Bien Phu: why France lost this legendary battle
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