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...Nghia Lo. At dawn French-manned B-26 bombers and Hellcat and Bearcat fighters were roaring off the airfields of Hanoi and Haiphong, a few minutes later were diving between the mist-shrouded peaks surrounding the Nghia Lo basin to plaster the Viet Minh troops with bombs and napalm. Over the town of Nghia Lo, C-47s and three-motored Junkers transports dropped French and Foreign Legion paratroopers, who quickly set up new defenses athwart the mountain passes. At week's end the severely mauled Viet Minh columns pulled back.The Thais breathed easier. The big attack of the Viet...
...liaison officer in Indo-China, Brigadier General Francis Brink, De Lattre handed a list of urgently needed weapons and supplies. He grasped at once the importance of a U.S. weapon ideal for jungle fighting: napalm. His predecessors had never used...
...officers were shown the "evidence." One exhibit was an oil-soaked piece of flush-riveted metal which North Korea's Colonel Chang Chun San said was part of a napalm bomb dropped by the marauding plane. There were a few small scorched areas and holes that looked as if grenades had been buried and detonated. There were two mothball-sized hunks of metal which, Chang solemnly averred, had struck Nam IPs jeep. Could the U.N. officers see the exhibits by daylight? No, said Chang, they had to be removed for "analysis." Reading from written notes, Chang called...
There were holes in the Red trumpery big enough to drive a T-34 tank through. The piece of flush-riveted metal might have been part of a U.N. plane, but it could not have been part of a napalm bomb, since the casings are not made with flush-riveting. The scorched areas were entirely too small to have been caused by a napalm bomb, which burns up thousands of square feet of terrain. The Chinese soldier gave the show away when he said that the attacking plane had its headlights on; no U.N. air unit attacks with lights...
Before daybreak one morning last week, U.N. troops began a "limited" attack northward toward the rail, road and supply center of Kumsong, 30 miles above the parallel. First the Reds fell back under U.N. napalm and artillery, then they turned, loosed a fierce artillery barrage, the heaviest since April. Some 500 shells dropped on U.N. positions at the rate of two a minute. But the U.N. troops held. Next night there was artillery again and 200 rounds of heavy mortar fire. Under cover of the artillery, the Reds sent small infantry forces forward. It looked as if the Reds were...