Wargaming

• Contre les Viets Indochina Crossfire variant by Peter Hunt of the Hong Kong Wargamers Association.

Personal accounts

• Ma Guerre d'Indochine : Mémoires du Colonel Jacques JAUBERT, the memoirs of Col Jaubert who was captured during the disastrous retreat on the RC 4. In French only.
• Jean BAUD, un Getois en Indochine, 1945-1946, a collection of personal letter written by Jean Baud. In French only.
• Captifs du Viet Minh, online edition of Thomas Capitaine's book on his experience as a POW. In French only.
• Un Crabe en Indochine. Souvenirs of Lieutenant Raymond Lescastreyres who served in the 1er Régiment Etranger de Cavalerie  ( 1er REC ) from 1952 to 1954. Excellent photos of amphibious ops. In French only. 

The Ground War

• Colonial Road 4, by George More
• La Légion étrangère sur la RC4, an article about the Foreign Legion in the RC4 battles. In French only
• The Hoa Binh Campaign, an article by Shaun M. Darragh 
• Ðiên Biên Phú : la plus longue bataille, an excellent site on this battle
• Dien Bien Phu : A Fatal Gamble, a very good article by Wild Bill Wilder on The Gamers Net site
• New Perspectives on Dien Bien Phu by Pierre Asselin
• History of Dien Bien Phu, an article by George Esper (Associated Press) with some interesting insights from Viet Minh veterans of the battle.
• The Battle of Dien Bien Phu, a photo page with couple of maps.
• Opération Églantine, an article about the destruction of GM 100. In French only.
• Indocina 1951-1954 a very interesting site displaying a large number of photos taken by Italian Foreign legionnaire Michele Vacca Ovodda (1923-1954). In Italian only. 
• The WPA Film Library has a page on Vietnam 1945-1975 with two Pathe News films on French forces in Indochina.
  
• Dien Bien Phu Infos a short page in French most useful for its maps of the Dien Bien Phu strongpoints.
• Le peloton de jeeps blindées du 9e/1er REC, interesting page on armoured jeeps of the Foreign Legion's 1st Cavalry Regiment. In French only.
  
• Etude sur les Crabes et le Groupement Amphibie, reproduction of a 1951 study written for the FTEO General Staff. In French only.

Units

• L'épopée du 6e BEP, Bigeard's battalion in Tu Lé (October 1952). In French only.
• The Bataillon de Corée's experience as part of the 2nd US Infantry Division in Korea. Not quite Indochina but this unit later served in the ill-fated GM 100.
• The Rastatt Foreign Legion Veterans Association maintain a site in French and English with some very good photos (on the French pages) and several links to other Legion sites. The images do take quite a while to download...
• Le R.I.C.M. en Indochine has a short summary of the unit's operations in Indochina. In French only.

The Air War

• Air War over Indochina, William Alcott maintains a very good site for those interested in modelling the aircraft that flew over Indochina.
• COIN: French Counter-Insurgency Aircraft, 1946-1965, an article from the Chandelle archives, has very good descriptions of aircraft used by the French in Indochina.
• USAF in French Indochina 1951-1954, an interesting site about the commitment of USAF pilots to Indochina with some outstanding colour photographs. Dead link :-( If anyone has a copy of the photos that used to be hosted there, please get in touch...
  
• Vietnamese Airforce Site, a very good site which also covers the early days of the VNAF.
• Normandie-Niémen, excellent coverage of  the history of the French Air Force's most highly decorated squadron. Very good photos of planes used in Indochina. In French only.
• L'histoire de la Flotille 9F, very good coverage of the unit's deployment to Indochina. In French only.

The River War

• Hai Quan Viet-Nam, a  page about the South-Vietnamese navy in the Second Indochina War which used a lot of boats left over from the French period. The main pages are in Vietnamese but the descriptions are in English.
• Vedettes Fluviales en Indochine : le peloton de vedettes blindées du 4e/1er REC, a very good article on the use of armoured patrol boats by the Foreign Legion's 1st Cavalry Regiment. In French only.

General History of the War

• The American Ambassador's Views of French Policies in Indochina, 1946-1949 , an interesting article by Philip F. Dur on early US policy with regards to Indochina.
• Text of the Declaration of Independence, read by Ho Chi Minh in Hanoi on 2 September 1945.
• Text of the Geneva Agreements, 20 July 1954, which ended the First Indochina War.

Topo Maps :

• Jim Henthorn's site has some excellent maps of North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia though the coverage is incomplete in some cases.
• Ray Smith's site has various topo maps of the Central Highlands and coast of Annam

Discussion Lists :

• FEW-Wargaming was founded to provide an E-group to support FEW wargaming and other conflicts in the Far East (Iran, Vietnam, China, Korea, India, Pakistan, Japan, Taiwan, etc.).
• The Vietgaming Mailing List covers miniature gaming of the various Vietnam wars.

Related pages : wargaming the Second Indochina War

• Grunt : Wargaming the Vietnam War, Michael Ruffle's excellent site on the Second Indochina War.
  
• Wargaming Vietnam Nigel Clarke's site on wargaming the Viet Nam War in 15mm scale.