Word: choben
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...Lattre's target was Communist stronghold Choben, lying in a gap between rugged, razorback mountain ranges 30 miles southwest of Hanoi, through which runs Route Coloniale No. 21. Slow-flying Junkers transports, trailing hooks, tore up Communist telephone lines, so that aid could not be summoned. Heavy artillery, brought up under cover of night to the base of the mountains, began hammering enemy strongpoints. Now, with roads and all vital bridges on the approaches to Choben in Commando hands, the French field commander, Three-Star General Gonzales de Linares, sent in tanks and infantry...
...soldiers, wading neck-deep through rice paddies, cleaned up the river villages. Wherever organized opposition was encountered, spotter planes called in B-26s and Hellcats, directing their fire bombs. Meanwhile, Foreign Legion paratroopers, back in harness after dreary months of bunker building, chuted down into the hills south of Choben...
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