Image via Wikipedia
This was the moment the Vietminh 803rd Regiment had been waiting for and which was going to give them control of the plateau area before the armistice negotiations were terminated in Geneva; the battle, finally, which would wipe off the face of the earth the hated Korea Regiment which still wore on its sleeve the white star and Indian head of the 2nd US Infantry Division… MORE>>
The French unit that fought in Korea with 2d Inf Div was a Battalion – 1/3 the size of a Regiment. Was reinforced in Indochina to Regiment size.