Word: garrisons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Croix de Castries calls his staff to a bunker in the heart of Dienbienphu. Four Viet Minh Communist divisions-about 40,000 men -supplied for 113 days by ant lines of coolies, have completed buildup. They are ready to attack De Castries' isolated, 15,-ooo-man garrison. "Messieurs" says De Castries, "please stand by tomorrow...
...crack divisions, perhaps 36,000 men, around the periphery of Dienbienphu. Last week he was ready. Artillery fire poured in. Early one morning the radiotelephone crackled in Hanoi H.Q. of General Rene Cogny, the three-star commander of French Union forces in north Viet Nam. The voice of the garrison commander at Dienbienphu told Cogny the news: Giap was attacking at last...
...ordered a surprise attack against the French garrison at Hanoi. His men blew up the power station, raided a hospital. France declared it would not yield to such violence, and the war was on. "The battle will be long and difficult," said Ho. All this got little attention in Washington, 13,000 air miles away. President Franklin D. Roosevelt had referred to French colonialism's "shocking record"; the U.S. now stipulated that U.S. economic aid to France must not be diverted to its colonial...
...barrage," said a Navy citation, "was followed by a vicious assault by onrushing enemy troops. Resolutely advancing through the veritable curtain of fire to aid his stricken comrades, Hammond moved among the stalwart garrison of marines and, although critically wounded himself, valiantly continued to administer aid to the other wounded throughout an exhausting four-hour period. When the unit was ordered to with draw, he skillfully directed the evacuation of casualties and remained in the fire-swept area . . . until he was struck by a round of enemy mortar fire and fell, mortally wounded. By his exceptional fortitude, inspiring initiative...
...with barbed wire and trenches. From this base they could keep in touch with Thai anti-Communist guerrillas by radio. When the enemy moved up his 316th Division from the southeast, in position to attack either Dienbienphu or Laichau, the French decided to let Laichau go. They evacuated the garrison (using part of it to strengthen Dienbienphu), blew up their installations in Laichau, and left the tricolor flying for the incoming Reds to cut down...