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...April, Mecklin flew a night airdrop mission with the French over Dienbienphu. His closeup description in TIME (April 19) was punctuated by the winking fire of the Communist antiaircraft batteries below. He also hopped over to Haiphong to talk to the American CAT pilots who were airlifting everything from ammunition to Scotch whisky into the surrounded fortress...
...taking Vietnamese company outposts at the tumble-down rate of five or six a week; and a special Red task force, some ten battalions strong, was pressing a tight, coordinated attack against the three French positions around Phuly, the logical start-off point for an offensive to cut4the Hanoi-Haiphong road...
...successive days, the Red guerrillas in the delta had been strong enough to dig trenches and lay mines across vital Route Coloniale 5-Hanoi's only main road link with its supply port, Haiphong. Last week some 2,000 Communists stormed a French battalion position 36 miles from Hanoi and a Vietnamese outpost less than seven miles from the city...
...recently as last March, it cost $6 to truck a one-ton load 58 miles into Hanoi from Haiphong; last week it cost $25. One Hanoi dry-goods importer last year did $90,000 worth of business; last week he reduced his 1954 estimate to $25,000. The surest barometer of Hanoi's fear: real-estate values are down some 30% since March...
Twice a day for the past six weeks, weather permitting, Earthquake had eased his massive body (6 ft., 250 lbs.) into the pilot seat of a C-119 Flying Boxcar, trucked its seven-ton load of ammunition and food the 90 flying minutes from Haiphong to beleaguered Dienbienphu...