Word: favrel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surviving French tanks were bogged down in the muck of the early monsoon, and French tactical air was often blinded in the haze. And there was the anguish of the wounded, who could not be flown out due to Red interdiction and part-capture of the airstrip. Wrote Charles Favrel from Indo-China to Paris' influential and neutralist Le Monde...
...professional help, the persistence and training of the Red infantry. He had overestimated the effect of his tactical air power. And it soon became cruelly evident that Navarre had offered battle in a bad spot-an open, accessible and easily commanded plain, not on the high ground. Commented Favrel scathingly in Le Monde...
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