PNP316654 Field Headquarters of General Navarre, General Cogny and Colonel de Castries, Dien Bien Phu, Northwest Vietnam in 1954 (b/w photo) by French Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Photographed during the siege of Dien Bien Phu, French army General Henri Eugene Navarre (1898-1983) (seated with 4-star cap), General Rene Cogny (1904-68) (holding cane) and Colonel Christian de Castries (1902-91) (hatless). The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was the climactic battle of the First Indochina War between the military forces of France and Vietnamese revolutionary forces called the Viet Minh, a Vietnamese Communist movement led by Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969);); Peter Newark Military Pictures; French, out of copyright.