““Only later would the grim tallies for France be known. Between September 1945 and July 1954, Paris sent a total of 489,560 soldiers to the Indochinese peninsula: 233,467 French nationals, 72,833 legionnaires, 122,920 North Africans, and 60,340 Africans. In addition, hundreds of thousands of Indochinese troops served with the French forces or in associated armies. By the end of the Geneva Conference, approximately 110,000 troops from the French Union side had been killed in combat or were presumed dead.””
