Dienbienphu
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No less a military leader than Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap, hero against the French at Dienbienphu and scourge of the Americans during the Viet Nam War, took charge of the campaign.
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The Joint Chiefs of Staff were adamant in their opposition: General Wheeler called McNamara's proposal "an aerial Dienbienphu."
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Pleven had been Defense Minister during Dienbienphu, feared ugly comparisons with the Algerian war.
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At her home in Versailles, French Air Force Nurse Genevi�ve de Galard Terraube, 29, the heroic "Angel of Dienbienphu," was photographed and asked by newsmen whether she will visit the U.S.
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From time to time, its crackerjack pilots moonlighted, accepting such missions as dropping French paratroopers into Dienbienphu in 1954.
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