Word: giap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the fall of Nghialo Nov. 3, some 20,000 Viet Minh (Communist) guerrillas, supported by an equal number of pack coolies, fanned out in the tube-shaped area between the Red and Black Rivers, as if their commander, General Vo Nguyen Giap, intended to force the Black in strength. Last week France's General Raoul Salan countered this move, which had alarmed the French, by an airlift of troops, arms and supplies to the Black's west bank. He also dispatched a force from the Hanoi perimeter to the confluence of the two rivers. This force occupied...
...Viet Minh's General Vo Nguyen Giap had three Red divisions which had lain low for eight months. Last fortnight Giap attacked on a 40-mile front, quickly toppled a handful of mud-and-bamboo French outposts. His main target was the French stronghold of Nghialo (which the Communists had tried vainly, a year ago, to wrest from the late great General De Lattre de Tassigny...
Nghialo was defended by a force of about 600 French and Vietnamese troops. Giap's first two assaults were beaten off with the help of B-26s and napalm bombs. After the third attack, in darkness and mist, a last message reached the military teleprinter in Hanoi: "Thank you for very close air support. Goodbye." Next day the French authorities announced that Nghialo had fallen...
...offensive had been a major defeat for Ho Chi Minh. On the Red radio, he told his troops that they must now abandon open warfare and go back to their former guerrilla tactics. Said Ho's Commander in Chief General Vo Nguyen Giap: "Our objective is not to take Haiphong or Hanoi, but to start a war of attrition...
...Minh and his government are prisoners of the sinister Tong Bo, the Communist Party Politburo, and in particular of five of its members, rising young extremists who really run the show. The most important is Vo Nguyen Giap, the Vietminh's frail, passionate, 38-year-old Minister of National Defense. Vo Nguyen Giap, a Communist since his teens, was first arrested when he was 18. His wife died in a French jail four years ago. More than anyone else, he created the Vietminh army. A ruthless and bloodthirsty man, he has coldly directed the liquidation of anti-Communists...