Word: doumer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last Truckloads. As Communist military police with gold stars on their helmets mounted guard in the city, the last truckloads of Foreign Legionnaires clattered across the mile-long Doumer Bridge over the flood-swollen Red River to join the rest of the French Viet Nam garrison 60 miles southeast at the port of Haiphong. There the French may stay till May, when under the Geneva agreements they must withdraw further south, below the Geneva dividing line at the 17th parallel, and leave all of north Viet Nam's rich rice bowl to the Reds...