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...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...
...Communists quickly isolated and overran a Foreign Legion outpost in the airstrip sector, and the French could not get it back. This was the third outpost the Communists had captured in seven days, and GHQ was despondent. Unless some way could be found to draw off Red General Giap's 40,000 men, said one top French commander, "General de Castries has only one chance in ten of holding...
...garrison has fought for 40 nights and days. Last week the French government cited every man for the Croix de guerre, and Sir Winston Churchill cabled: "I salute you." Now the gallant garrison was at bay. Was there a chance of relief? Was Red General Giap's army as worn out as the garrison? Or would the outcome be the simple probability-death or Red captivity in one of three bitter ways: a sudden, crushing onset in the dark, or death by the thousand cuts of a siege, or surrender with the honors of war? There were lurking uncertainties...
...perimeter with fresh, air-dropped reinforcements-infantry volunteers with only a few hours' parachute instruction and no practice-and built up his ammunition stocks for the battle's third round. De Castries professed to have no doubt who would win. "I'm going to kick General Giap's teeth in, one by one," said...
French intelligence reported that Giap was also using the lull to bring up heavy reinforcements and supplies and to redraw his battle lines-nearer and nearer the fortress...