@waally Said 
anybody know much on it?
im doing an assignment where i have to write the perspectives of three different people involved in it.
Was not involved in it but studied it some.
It was the turning point in the french conflict in Vietnam where they were defeated by those we would later fight.
A classical case of French military genius where they underestimated the other guy in a huge way.
Some of their best elite troops dug in surrounded by mountains they thought their base was invincible no one could shell them there or bomb them there .
The Viet Minh used simple man power to drag howitzers up to the mountains and began shelling the crap out of the french from elevated positions which reduced the french base to rubble very quickly.That the french lasted as long as they did is testiment to how tough their average legionarre and average soldiers was.But in the end their officers surrendered.
Interesting post script the howitzers used by the Viet Minh were US captured from the first cavalry division by the chinese during the korean war. This was during the bugout from the yalu river. The Chinese kept the guns and gave them to Ho Chi Minhs guerrillas
Sep 10, 2008 @ 01:24:12
