• Operation Camargue, one of the largest operations of the First Indochina War, failed to snare the Viet-Minh's Regiment 95?
• Bernard de Lattre de Tassigny, son of French World War II hero Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, was one of 21 sons of French marshals and generals to be killed in the First Indochina War?
• French Major General René Cogny, who later commanded French forces during the First Indochina War, was captured in June 1940 by the German army, and had to escape by crawling naked through a drainpipe?

Facts on topics related to First Indochina War

Ho Chi Minh

• Ho Chi Minh's marriage to Tang Tuyet Minh has never been acknowledged by the government of Vietnam?
• Charles Ndaxu Namoloh, now a member of the National Assembly of Namibia, used the nom de guerre of "Ho Chi Minh" during the Namibian War of Independence?
• Hoi Khanh Temple in Thu Dau Mot was once used as a meeting place by Vietnamese independence activists, including Ho Chi Minh's father?

Korean War

• 1949 Michigan football MVP Dick Kempthorn later flew more than 100 missions as a jet fighter pilot in the Korean War and received the Distinguished Flying Cross?
• Australian troops fought their last battle of the Korean War just hours before the ceasefire, fighting off numerous Chinese attacks during the Battle of the Samichon River?
• air ace John S. Loisel spent more time in combat than any other American pilot in World War II and also served in the Korean War?
• China commemorates the Battle of Onjong by marking October 25 as the War to Resist America and Aid Korea Memorial Day?
• US soldier Rodolfo P. Hernandez (pictured) was awarded the Medal of Honor after the Korean War for attacking and delaying an enemy regiment, alone and wounded?
• US Army soldiers march to the top of Hill 303 in Korea every year to place flowers commemorating the victims of the Hill 303 massacre of the Korean War (memorial pictured)?
• Anthony T. Kahoʻohanohano was awarded the Medal of Honor 58 years after his death in the Korean War?
• Arne Sunde, Norwegian Olympian, politician and World War II veteran, was President of the United Nations Security Council at the start of the Korean War?
• Ben Chapman, the actor who portrayed the Gill-man in Creature from the Black Lagoon, was a veteran of the Korean War?
• George Chesworth was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for sorties against the Chinese in the Korean War?

Cold War

• cosmonauts such as Grigori Nelyubov, dismissed from the Soviet space program, were airbrushed out of official photographs, leading to early Cold War speculation of failed missions even when the actual reasons for dismissal were sometimes mundane?
• Dave Brubeck's The Real Ambassadors was largely based on the goodwill tours of Louis Armstrong and other jazz musicians on behalf of the U.S. State Department during the Cold War?
• Hungarian ballerina Nora Kovach's 1953 defection to the West was the first highly publicized Cold War-era defection of individuals in the field of dance?
• Rear Admiral Ellis M. Zacharias, who had been deputy chief of Navy intelligence in World War II, later narrated the NBC Cold War docudrama Behind Closed Doors, titled after one of his own books?
• Building 470 at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland housed fermentor tanks for producing Bacillus anthracis during the Cold War?
• Igor Britanov captained the Soviet submarine K-219 when it sank northeast of Bermuda during the Cold War?
• at the height of the Cold War, U.S. President Ronald Reagan committed a microphone gaffe when he joked that he had signed legislation to bomb Russia?
• at the height of the Cold War, Lynne Cox became the first person to swim from the USA to the USSR?
• during the Cold War, Soviet leaders used "And you are lynching Negroes..." as an ad hominem attack against the U.S.?
• during the Cold War, Canada permitted the United States to practice photo reconnaissance over Grey Goose Island with the RB-52C Stratofortress?

Harry S. Truman

• President Truman's own pastor came out publicly against his appointment of General Mark Wayne Clark (pictured) as ambassador to Pope Pius XII?
• U.S. Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Harry S. Truman once lived in the Kennedy-Warren Apartment Building?
• Leon Keyserling was the head of the Council of Economic Advisers advising U.S. President Truman, yet never finished his own graduate dissertation in economics?
• as part of the redesign of the Grand Staircase in the Truman-era White House, architect Lorenzo Winslow developed a series of maquettes, detailed scale models showing the proposed designs?
• award-winning television editor Walter Balderson was the only TV cameraman inside the White House for the 1953 Inauguration Day meeting between U.S. President Truman and President-elect Eisenhower?
• the Dean of Barnard College and Teddy Roosevelt's grandson founded an organization that lobbied the Truman administration to prevent the creation of the State of Israel?
• the White House Entrance Hall (pictured) had the President's seal removed from its floor in the early 1950s because President Truman thought it inappropriate to walk across it?

Mao Zedong

• Kjell Heggelund has translated poems by Mao Zedong, as well as the French surrealists Paul Éluard and Robert Desnos into the Norwegian language?
• Mao Anqing, the last known surviving son of Mao Zedong, suffered from a mental illness often attributed to a severe beating received from a policeman while living on the streets in Shanghai in the 1930s?
• Zhang Zhenshi created a widely reproduced image of Mao Zedong which is known as China's Mona Lisa?

Battle of Dien Bien Phu

• both the arrests of General Christian de Castries in the Battle of Dien Bien Phu and of President Duong Van Minh ending the Ho Chi Minh Campaign were by units commanded by General Lê Trọng Tấn?