THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF CONTACT

A handful of figures explain to how murderous the air war close to Dien Bien Phu was: Of the 420 plane available in all of Indochina then, 62 had been missing in reference to Dien Bien Phu and 167 sustained hits. Many of the American civilian pilots who flew the run claimed that Viet Minh flak was as dense as everything encountered throughout Entir