Captured and at the mercy of an increasingly cruel enemy, German-born US Navy pilot Dieter Dengler was left with no choice but to attempt a daring escape from the Pathet Lao prison camp in which ...

Showdown. Kong Le began by reinforcing his garrison with 2,000 Communist Pathet Lao guerrillas from the nearby jungles. Then he turned for further aid to his good friend, Russian Ambassador ...

The Communist ties between Vietnam and Laos dated back to the Vietnam War years, when North Vietnam assisted the communist Pathet Lao in its armed struggles against the Kingdom of Laos.

He goes with June 10, 1951. The date makes him 8 when the Pathet Lao – a political movement in Laos allied with the Vietnamese communists – expanded its power. As the fighting escalated ...

He goes with June 10, 1951. The date makes him 8 when the Pathet Lao – a political movement in Laos allied with the Vietnamese communists – expanded its power. As the fighting escalated ...

Guerilla fighters of the Pathet Lao, the group which martyred Father Mario Borzaga and Paul Thoj Xyooj in Laos in April 1960, are seen in Sam Nuea, 1953. (photo: Kenneth Conboy via Wikipedia ...

The southeast Asian nation had been wracked by a civil war pitting right-wing royalists against Pathet Lao communists—the latter backed by North Vietnam, which used Laotian territory to ...

De Pathet Lao in de Vlakte der Kruiken wordt niet alleen aangevallen met de X 28-vliegtuigen, die de VS aan de Laotische neutralisten hebben geleverd, mgiar ook met straalvliegtuigen, die ...

But Bankowski was flying missions against the Communist Pathet Lao and Viet Cong. “If he could have, he'd have been here seven days a week,” said Dan Burke, who worked with Marcus in the ...