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The fall of Dien Bien Phu
Beatrice Hill. on 13/Mar/1954 the attack start the last message from the strongpoint was by a radio operator of the Ninth Company. He called in artillery fire. Then there was total silence. Beatrice had fallen.Today noting left form the Beatrice hill just a monument for Phan Dinh Giot, the first Viet Minh hero of the siege who fell in the assault, his unit was pinned down by fire from a machine gun bunker. In order to shield his men, Phan threw his own body across the bunker's.Vietnam-Dien Bien Phu,
Photo ID: dien_bien_phu011
Photo keywords: Alfred Yaghobzadeh, command bunker, Dien Bien Phu, Eliane Hill, fighter, french, French Indochina, general, General De Castries, Viet Minh, Vietnam, vo nguyen giap, war, war veteran