Word: minh
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...were scores of similar dumps testifying to the weight and seriousness of Communist General Giap's attack. It was a three-front fight: 1) in the mountainous jungles of the Black River country, where 10,000 Thais, Moroccans and Legionnaires held a 130-mile line against three Viet Minh divisions; 2) in the. Red River valley, where a wedge of French armor, backed by 15,000 Vietnamese troops, linked up with French paratroops dropped in the enemy rear; 3) in the Hanoi delta, where Giap had touched off a 40,000-man guerrilla attack to brake French momentum...
...jungle-clad mountains northwest of Hanoi directing the operations of a Communist guerrilla army which had just delivered a smashing attack on the French rear and was now withdrawing before French counterattacks. His name: General Vo Nguyen Giap (pronounced Yap). Since the husky voice of Communist Leader Ho Chi Minh disappeared from the Viet Minh propaganda radio two years ago, the French have come more & more to believe that Giap is their chief antagonist in Indo-China...
Jails & Joining. The existence of Giap is all too evident: as commander of 100,000 Communist regulars and 200,000 Viet Minh partisans, he has in six years 1) tied down 200,000 French Union troops, killing or capturing 30,000, including 1,124 officers, 2) cost the French $6 billion and the U.S., $2 billion in military...
Death Means Nothing. World War II brought a Japanese occupation to Indo-China, but left the (Vichy) French with a few threads of authority. Under the name of Comrade Van, Giap became Ho Chi Minh's right-hand man and organized a Communist underground army of liberation (i.e., liberation from both Japanese and French). In Hanoi, the French threw his wife into jail, with a sentence of 15 years, and there she died. When Giap led his "liberation" troops into the valley of Dinh Ca in 1944, his merciless liquidation of government officials and wealthy farmers gave cruel force...
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...