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Word: dienbienphu (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the beginning of the North Vietnamese buildup around the Marine base, the U.S. command was convinced that North Viet Nam's Defense Minister, General Vo Nguyen Giap, intended to try to overrun Khe Sanh as he had stormed Dienbienphu 14 years earlier. As he had done against the French garrison, Giap assembled large numbers of his best-trained assault troops around Khe Sanh, together with huge quantities of weaponry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: HOW THE BATTLE FOR KHE SANH WAS WON | 4/19/1968 | See Source »

...addition, deep in the Laotian hillsides Giap placed Russian-made 152-mm. cannons, their long tubes zeroed in on besieged Marines. Altogether, Hanoi's gunners poured more explosives into Khe Sanh than they had into Dienbienphu, reaching a peak on Feb. 23, when 1,300 rounds slammed into the U.S. base. And, as in 1954, the North Vietnamese by night tunneled ever closer to the Marine perimeter, drawing the net of fortified attack positions ever tighter. In terms of firepower and supplies, the Communists were better prepared to strike at Khe Sanh than they ever had been at Dienbienphu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: HOW THE BATTLE FOR KHE SANH WAS WON | 4/19/1968 | See Source »

Some time around March 12, the day before the 14th anniversary of his victory at Dienbienphu, General Giap seems to have come to the conclusion that he would not be able to repeat his earlier feat, and he stopped sending replacements to Khe Sanh. Then, on March 22, he ordered one of his two battered divisions around Khe Sanh to withdraw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: HOW THE BATTLE FOR KHE SANH WAS WON | 4/19/1968 | See Source »

...were accompanied by heliborne troopers, who were the first to reach the camp, landing on Khe Sanh's pocked runway. Thus, after 76 harrowing days, the siege of Khe Sanh last week came to an ironic end. What had loomed as the great set-piece battle, a la Dienbienphu, of the entire war-the ultimate test of Hanoi's military menace and the grand symbol of U.S. determination-dissolved at last almost without a shot being fired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: Victory at Khe Sanh | 4/12/1968 | See Source »

Sanh went on special alert to mark an ominous anniversary: the 14th year to the day since General Vo Nguyen Giap's initial assault on the French bastion of Dienbienphu. But the day came and went without any North Vietnamese attempt to celebrate with all-out fireworks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: On the Offensive | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

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