Ermelo Airport

French Far East Expeditionary Corps

The French Far East Expeditionary Corps was a colonial expeditionary force of the French Armed Forces that was initially formed in French Indochina in 1945 during the Pacific War. The CEFEO in fact fought in the War in southern Vietnam (1945–1946) and later fought in the name of the French Union army during the First Indochina War against the communist Viet Minh rebels. It did not include the Vietnamese National Army although Vietnam was part within the French Union and fought in the war, because Vietnam gained independence within the French Union in 1949 and had its own army the following year.