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Battle of Dien Bien Phu: References & Edit History

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Modified link of Web site: Air and Space Forces Magazine - Dien Bien Phu. Nov 01, 2026
Add new Web site: NPR - Remembering Vietnam's Battle of Dien Bien Phu. Aug 20, 2026
Anniversary information added. Apr 30, 2026
Add new Web site: Communist Party Of India (Marxist) - On the 50th anniversary of the battle of Dien Bien Phu (PDF). Jun 05, 2025
Add new Web site: BBC - Witness History - The siege of Dien Bien Phu. Mar 13, 2025
Add new Web site: Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training - The Fall of Dien Bien Phu and the Rise of U.S. Involvement in Vietnam. Jan 02, 2025
Add new Web site: Academia - New perspectives on Dien Bien Phu. Nov 08, 2024
Add new Web site: University of Hawaii at Manoa - ScholarSpace - New Perspectives on Dien Bien Phu. Sep 27, 2024
Add new Web site: Air and Space Forces Magazine - Dien Bien Phu. Jul 16, 2024
Add new Web site: Marquette University - The Battle of Dien Bien Phu. Jun 07, 2024
Add new Web site: Hoover Institution - The Lessons Of Dien Bien Phu. Apr 04, 2024
Add new Web site: Office of the Historian - Dien Bien Phu and the Fall of French Indochina, 1954. Sep 12, 2023
Add new Web site: Chemins de m?moire - Battle of Dien Bien Phu. Dec 19, 2022
Add new Web site: Chemins de M�moire - The battle of Dien Bien Phu - 13th March -7th May 1954. Feb 22, 2019
Add new Web site: Alpha History - Dien Bien Phu. Feb 22, 2019
Media added. Sep 15, 2017
Add new Web site: The Cold War Museum - The first Indochina War: Attack at Dien Bien Phu, Vietnam. Jan 09, 2017
Add new Web site: HistoryNet - Dien Bien Phu: What Happened at the Pivotal 1954 Battle. Feb 09, 2014
Media added. Oct 14, 2008
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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