Page 227 - Thorn In The Heart

Chinh Nguyên

they shacked hand the 2nd French Legion paratrooper battalion,
who dropped at a distance one kilometer around Cho-Noi
firebase. They opened the special operation to reinforce and
reoccupy Cho-Noi firebase when they can do to help the soldiers
in the firebase.

It was too late for the Cho-Noi firebase...! Whole things
were a disaster just overnight by explosives and storm cannon
shells. Vietminh soldiers moved out of the battlefield, and pulled
their friend dead bodies with them, while the guerrillas were
hiding to be the farmers in the villages.

The Cho-Noi firebase had heavy lost with few dozen
soldiers of 10th Movable Battalion, three Security Region
platoons, and French Union Company lying on the ground and
scream for help. Everywhere had dead bodies of burning lost the
heads by chopping, broken their chests and the parts. The water
of the small natural pond between the base turned to the light
blood color. The fires flared while the thunder sounds of
exploding echoed in the air.

Few hundred soldiers of the firebase could not survive after
the struggle fighting. The civilians dead bodies were hung on the
barbed-wire around the base to be the bridges, that Vietminh
soldiers used to walk on them and attacked into the base.
Vietminh agents had tied up some wounded high-rank soldiers
as Lieutenant Tran-Minh-Tam, Master sergeant Hoang-Van-
Sach, sergeant Nguyen-Van-Khuong. They wanted to take those
soldiers with them into the villages for information, but they
heard the C-47 and saw the paratroopers jumped out in the air.
They pushed the victim into the explosive store and burned it
after they had left the scene in a hurry,

The 10th Movable Battalion broke up with few dozens
wounded soldiers survive after its headquarters had reoccupied
the firebase. They left the firebase for 5th Commando French

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