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“The war that France fought to retain Indochina within the French Community and free from communism terminated on May 7, 1954, with the fall of the fortified position of Dien Bien Phu, after five months of heroic resistance…. It was established that a one-hour strike by American planes could have saved the beleaguered garrison and changed the course of history. On five separate occasions such a strike was discussed, but each time reasons were found to rule out American rescue from the air.”
Hilaire du Berrier from the foreword of his 1965 book Background to Betrayal: The Tragedy of Vietnam (See our review on page 39).
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