BATTLE OF INDOCHINA
As General Alphonse Juin and Minister for Indo-China Jean Letourneau landed at Hanoi's Gialam airfield after the long flight from Paris, a welcoming band struck up the Marseillaise and the Thanly-Nien Hanh Khuc (the Vietnamese anthem, March of Youth). Then the two Frenchmen hurried away from martial music to study the martial setback suffered by France in northern Indo-China.
The retreat of French forces from their strongpoints along the Chinese border was still in full swing. Langson, a fortress often regarded as the key to Hanoi itself, was abandoned without a...
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