Word: raoul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grenades. The fight went on behind the cactus hedges and straw huts, with fanatical young Communists in brown homespun clothing shouting "La dai" (Come and get us). The legionnaires got them. On the river, naval units sank six barges full of Viet Minh soldiers and equipment. Four-star General Raoul Sa-lan, who has been consistently chipper, even on the eve of past setbacks, boasted: "The future of our military actions is now secured...
...French Union forces had lost 200 dead, and the Communists more than 500. The French claimed a victory, but it was at most an inconclusive one. Sad-eyed General Raoul Salan was convinced that even if the airstrip became unusable, the French could still supply Nasan's defenders indefinitely by airdrop...
...RAOUL CLOUTHIER...
...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 the war-battered village of Hunghoa...
Meanwhile De Lattre's successor, sad-eyed General Raoul Salan, had dispatched a battalion of paratroopers to the trouble spot. They were dropped on a hill post near Nghialo but were quickly surrounded. In a heroic, exhausting, five-day march over the high ridges, bypassing Communists in the valleys, they made their way to the Black River. They had started carrying their wounded on bamboo stretchers, but when the litter carriers had no strength left, the wounded were left to their fate. The battalion chaplain stayed behind with them...