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Thorn In The Heart

the central French camps, while Vietminh heavy guns were
pounding on over the camps and Vietminh soldiers were rushing
to the French front lines with loudly yell of hate.

Suddenly a C-47 cargo rose up the flame as a fireball while
the paratroopers were jumping out of the plane and dropped as
the stone in the air. Another cargo with full medical supplies
blasted on the runway while the pilot tried to touch and go at the
airfield.

Vietminh stopped their offense to reinforce at midnight
March 14, 1954. They counted few thousand casualties and
several dozens hundred bad wounded soldiers around the French
camps for the cost of the first attack. Instead, they won French
militarist at the first round and controlled the hill 506 completely
in the late cold sunset raining.

French troops looked into the dark with their wide opened
eyes after the first round heavy lost of Strongpoint Beatrice 506.
They wondered to watch Vietminh soldiers charged their bodies
to the slits of bunkers for blocking the machine guns firing out
with the full power. Few dozens of Vietminh soldiers
volunteered to lie down on the spring barbed wires to make the
dead body paths for other forward to attack the camps.

French machine guns killed lot Vietminh soldiers before
they reach the barbed fence or bunkers and lay on over the
ground. Few dozens other were still alive with badly wounded,
and were dangling on the barbed wire fence piles without help
and cried out in the cold of rain and wind.

Just the first round of the battle, both sides claimed nearly
six thousand casualties of fighting soldiers included the
wounded.

French troops were hurried to the carrier the wounded into
the hospital bunkers at the center camps, and there are not

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