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Old February 15th, 2007, 03:55 PM
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Default Re: Dien Bien Phu, Hell in a very small place...

You seem to know a lot about this, so no risk you made any error in your possible campain
Bigeard had not 12.000 Waffen-SS but there where lot of them in the legion. I remeber reading a book from a french partisan: During the war he was deported. After the war he entered the legion as a team leader: his team was 50% german, all former waffen-SS !
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