Page 258 - Thorn In The Heart

Thorn In The Heart

Most air survived paratroops hung on the very thin string in
the dangerous situation between dead and lives. They opened
fire at their enemies while 100 feet in the air and landed among
the heavy crossfire on the ground to reinforce under the
Vietminh artilleries pounding wave pressure around them.

General Navarre was unable to send enough troops for
preventative Vietminh fearless fighting force on the battlefield.
Also, French supplies were unable to drop on the safety zones,
while the battle had continued increasing in dreadful and disaster
for every minute.

Every day both sides counted few dozens hundred soldiers
die and wounded in the heavy combat. Every night a hundred
French soldiers plunged into the darkness then about sixty or
more of them were killed and wounded by closing fights in the
thick forest around camps.

French warplanes were tightening up by the bad weather,
and danger of the anti-aircraft missile that draws them up over
the explosive net. The pilots dropped the bombs onto the
invisible targets in the thick forest, and could not make the
difference to help the ground force.

Ho-Chi-Minh declared that Dien-Bien-Phu battle is the last
one for the struggle of the first Vietnam war. Vietnamese, they
must die to win the French force and seek independence for the
country. Their children will have land to live, free to choose and
learn how their fathers satisfied for the country because of the
cruel foreign rules.

Vietminh soldiers took Ho-Chi-Minh’s words as the power
to seek independence and learned the same characteristic
resistance of Vietnamese people in Vietnam history. They
always keep in mind that Chinese empires used Vietnamese as
the slavery for a thousand years, and French colonials dominated
Vietnam with the death rules for profit. Therefore they carried

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