Vietnam 30th Anniversay of the Battle of Dien Bien Phu

VIETNAM on 7 May 1984 issued a  set of seven stamps to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Battle of Dien Bien Phu. The stamp designs were based on actual photos from the period.

The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was the climactic confrontation in the First Indochina War between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist-nationalist revolutionaries. It was, from the French view before the event, a set piece battle to draw out the Vietnamese and destroy them with superior firepower. The battle occurred between March and May 1954 and culminated in a comprehensive French defeat that influenced negotiations over the future of Indochina at Geneva.