Word: lanessan
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...Hanoi there was an undertow of fear. There were more tanks, more armored cars in the streets, more Vietnamese guardsmen drilling in the Jardin Botanique. There were more bandaged soldiers in the grim De Lanessan hospital, and there were many more planes in the sky. Sometimes the French 105-mms. pounded unseen targets unusually close to the suburbs; or an alien burst of machine-gun fire slashed across one of the two city airfields; or a trigger-happy Senegalese sentry fired and shouted in the dark. French and Vietnamese housewives were finding everyday items much harder to get, much more...
Ambulance convoys rolled from Hanoi's military airfield to the French army's De Lanessan Hospital. From their blood-smeared stretchers and crisp, starch-white beds, the wounded told the hour-by-hour story of the battle for Dienbienphu. This is how it went...
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