At about 9:30 am Bréchignac radioed Bigeard: ‘Bréche to Bruno. The only able-bodied men who tried to leave the position and reach Eliane 10 were Captain Clédic of II/1 RCP with two lieutenants and a handful of paratroopers, but most of them were captured almost as soon as they got off the hill. Rouault, the 5 BPVN medical officer, would not attempt an escape. The ammunition was virtually finished, and there was not a man anywhere on the hill who could be spared to plug the gap. The only able-bodied men who tried to leave the position and reach Eliane 10 were Captain Clédic of II/1 RCP with two lieutenants and a handful of paratroopers, but most of them were captur “The north-east face of Eliane 4 gave way soon after 9 am.
“The north-east face of Eliane 4 gave way soon after 9 am. insistence, creating the short-lived Republic of South Vietnam for which 55,000 Americans would die in the next twenty years.more As they withdrew, the country was ominously divided at U.S. Eventually the French were depleted, demoralized, and destroyed. The siege in the jungle wore on as defeat loomed for the French. The hunters-the French army-had become the hunted, desperately defending their out-gunned base. When French paratroopers landed in the jungle on the border between Vietnam and Laos, the Vietnamese quickly isolated the French force and confronted them at their jungle base in a small place called Dien Bien Phu. The hunters-the French army-had become In December 1953 the French army occupying Vietnam challenged the elusive Vietnamese army to engage in a decisive battle. In December 1953 the French army occupying Vietnam challenged the elusive Vietnamese army to engage in a decisive battle.
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