Word: flarelight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French lookouts spied Red concentrations in the flarelight, headed for Claudine and Eliane. At 2200, bugles shrilled through the damp night air, and four Red regiments attacked. By dawn, they had four outposts in Eliane. Then they overran Bald Head Hill, which commanded the center from the east...
...French pilots saw it in the flarelight, from far above. The Legionnaires advanced from their shattered trenches toward the massed Red infantry, and the guns. Like the Confederate rush at Franklin, it was forlorn; like the Old Guard's serried march on Waterloo, it was final; like the Light Brigade at Balaclava, it was magnificent, but not war. At 0150, little more than half an hour later, the Charge of the Demi-Brigade was over, and very few men still lived. Isabelle radioed the Drench planes: "Breakout failed. We must break communications with you. We are going to blow...
Only from Isabelle came bright news. As the Reds swarmed across one outpost, some Foreign Legionnaires went underground. From their dugouts they fought up towards the flarelight; it was hand-to-hand work with knives, grenades, the bayonet. At 0400, two Legion battalions counterattacked. It took them twelve hours to drive Giap's men out of Isabelle...
...Plus-Two: Just after midnight, the Communists surge again towards Bald Head, marked by a single lightning-blasted tree-stump etched against the flarelight. The Moroccans repel them, and quiet comes. For almost eleven hours the tired armies get a rest. Early afternoon, the Communists slam in heavy strength against Bald Head, and edge the Moroccans off the crest. But De Castries is still confident. "Le moral de mes hommes est formidable," he says on the radio to HQ. "If you see my wife," adds De Castries coolly, "give her a kiss from...
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