Word: bayoneted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communists swarmed on toward Junon, flushed with imminent victory. There was one last cutting and clubbing, and the helpless French pilots saw it: bayonet, knife and grenade in one ghastly arena less than 1,000 feet wide. Bearded French veterans, coal-black Senegalese and tough little Vietnamese even slugged at the Reds with chunks of wood and iron from their broken strong points. "It was like a spectacle of wild beasts in a Roman amphitheater," said one pilot afterward...
Only from Isabelle came bright news. As the Reds swarmed across one outpost, some Foreign Legionnaires went underground. From their dugouts they fought up towards the flarelight; it was hand-to-hand work with knives, grenades, the bayonet. At 0400, two Legion battalions counterattacked. It took them twelve hours to drive Giap's men out of Isabelle...
LEICA, which has been making the same basic 35-mm. camera since 1924, has just brought out a radical new model to meet increasing competition. Called the "M," the new camera has interchangeable bayonet lenses (instead of the usual screw-mounted type), a detachable automatic light meter, and a combination viewer and range finder that adjusts automatically for all lenses. Retail price...
...tanks but do not stop the legion. "Some Viets were dug in, so we cleaned them out," says a legion officer. "There were Viets everywhere, shoulder to shoulder. A Viet shot me. I fired my pistol at the Viet. He was dead, not me. Another Viet tried to bayonet one of my men. My man knocked the bayonet aside, then he hit the Viet with his fist. He knocked him down. Then he dropped a grenade on him so he wouldn't get up." The legionnaires get through to Gabrielle but cannot stay there. For the price...
Segat used his bayonet to carve a hole in another prisoner's ear. "Captain Griffiths gave me a piece of signal wire," he said, "and told me to tie it to the ear." Then the patrol moved off, with Segat leading the prisoner...