Vietnam, Senegalese trooper inspecting barbed wire barrier during First Indochina War

Caption from similar print 2388: Newly-arrived barbed wire is laid horizontally around strongpoints in Indo-China.IndochinaAn agreement between Ho Chi Minh and the French (1946) made Vietnam a free state though fighting between parties erupted into the First Indochina War ending in May 1954.Harrison Forman Diary, Indo-China, November 1950 accessible at http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/forman/id/64GrayscaleForman Safety Negatives, Box