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Old February 16th, 2007, 04:57 PM
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Default Re: Dien Bien Phu, Hell in a very small place...

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loktarr said:
Bigeard had not 12.000 Waffen-SS but there where lot of them in the legion. <snip>
That's not what he wrote or implied ......what he wrote was...."Bigeard was later to say that had he had 12.000 Waffen SS troops there instead of the motley garrision they had, he would have held it. "

so he wished he had that many and if he had he would have held.

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