Word: minh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State Department's invitation to a joint statement. But there was new debate and soul-searching in all the free countries of the world. The Vietnamese government itself was strengthened when an important bloc of local fence-sitters decided to support the fight against Ho Chi Minh. In France, the anti-Communists spoke up more boldly. For the first time the French, noting that the Chinese Communists were already providing artillery and antiaircraft guns at besieged Dienbienphu, were saying that the war had entered a new phase and might be "internationalized," if necessary, after Geneva. Officially, however, both...
...Airfield, the lieutenant colonel pulled on his overalls and told us: "The operation tonight is called Polo. The drop planes are Banjo One, Two, Three, and so on. Ours is the command plane, but we will also carry a load of 60 parachute flares to drop if the Viet Minh attacks and our comrades on the ground need light for shooting. Our radio identification is Luciole...
...Last night we had to make six passes over the drop zone. The first one was O.K. Then the Viets spotted us. Tracers came up zzzt zzzt zzzt all around us. Our plane was hit 13 times." That sort of shooting at night is conclusive evidence that the Viet Minh gunners have Chinese radar. Said Sergeant K.: "They shoot with a Chinese accent...
...guide Banjo One, Two & Co. into the drop zone. From Luciole, the zone looked pitifully small-500 meters at the southern end of the main airstrip-and the slightest miscalculation of wind or navigation could make a parachute, whatever its cargo, drift into the barbed wire or the Viet Minh lines. At intervals of a few seconds, sometimes minutes, there were more lights-delicate white fragments in the blackness. Some were Viet shells hammering the French positions. Some were French shells reaching out into the foothills, where the Communists were gathering for their third offensive. Flicks of light came...
...Communists besieging Dienbienphu, said Dulles, are using new radar-controlled antiaircraft guns that are "operated by members of the Chinese military establishment." A Chinese general with "nearly a score of Chinese technical advisers" is at Viet Minh staff headquarters near Dienbienphu. Some 1,000 Red trucks in Indo-China are "driven by Chinese army personnel...