Seattle Times26d
As Jean-Marie Le Pen is buried, here’s a look at key dates of the rise of the far right in France
fighting to maintain French colonial rule in Indochina and Algeria. He was a paratrooper in the 1957 battle of Algiers, later acknowledging violent actions he described as imposed by the hierarchy ...
CounterPunch11d
A New Military Strategy of French Neocolonialism in Africa: Reorganizing Under the Cover Retreat
and established in 1914 as a detachment of the French colonial army in Ivory Coast, this battalion served France “during both world wars, the Indochina War, and the Algerian War. In 1978 ...
Boston Herald1mon
Jean-Marie Le Pen, French far-right leader known for fiery rhetoric against immigration, dies at 96
A former paratrooper and Foreign Legionnaire who fought to maintain French colonial rule in Indochina and Algeria, Jean-Marie Le Pen was a wily political strategist and gifted orator who used his ...
Valérie André, first woman to fly helicopter rescue missions in combat, dies at 102
Valérie André, a French military officer, 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 ...
PBS5y
Who's Who: North Vietnam
An original founder of the Indochina Communist Party ... Vo commanded the Vietminh forces that liberated Vietnam from French colonial rule, fought the Americans and the South Vietnamese, and ...