France will repatriate the remains of six soldiers who fell in Diên Bien Phu. The unidentified remains will be buried in the Indochina War Memorial necropolis in Fréjus.
After 56 days of bloody fighting, deluges of shells and hand-to-hand confrontations, the battle ended on May 7, 1954. The battle sealed the end of the French presence in Ind Cochina and the emergence of Vietnam as an independent nation. The French authorities have not been informed of the discovery of new bodies of French combatants.