Word: clawhold
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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...five days & nights, the Communists have gained one-half of the northeast and a clawhold in the northwest-at a fearful price of 7,000 dead, some 10,-ooo wounded and 80 prisoners (on top of 9,000 casualties in Phase One). This is more than half Giap's original striking force. The dangling Communist dead are beginning to putrefy on the wire, and French planes drop leaflets in the enemy lines: "Remember Giap, the Butcher of Dienbienphu." The French have lost perhaps 2,000. But Dienbienphu holds...
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