Oh yeah, there are actually a lot of connections between Vietnam and the Algerian Revolution. Many Algerians (and other groups colonized by France in Africa) we

Oh yeah, there are actually a lot of connections between Vietnam and the Algerian Revolution. Many Algerians (and other groups colonized by France in Africa) were brought to fight the Viet Minh, and when captured, were spared and asked why they weren't also fighting their colonizers. There was often anti-colonial re-education that happened. [1][2] In terms of our exact village, I don't recall if it happened by air or hand (or both), but he definitely has talked about the French air force dropping napalm and helicopters landing on the football field they played on as kids when accessing the mountains. I'll ask him. He was already living in Bejaia at the time (he was 5), and one day 10 or so family members showed up to live with them (in their ~1000 sqft house, much of which is a courtyard), saying the village was emptied out and destroyed. I go to the land where the village was whenever I'm visiting and really there's just an old two room stone mosque still standing, a tapped well for water, and a couple off grid homes that some hermits live in. [1] https://caukieucollective.com/remembering-the-algerian-war-for-independence-and-solidarity-with-vietnam/ https://caukieucollective.com/remembering-the-algerian-war-f... [2] https://vvaveteran.org/37-6/37-6_algeria.html https://vvaveteran.org/37-6/37-6_algeria.html