Episode 2.16

On March 1954, the Viet Minh launched an artillery barrage upon the French garrison.  In the evening Viet Minh infantry attacked the Beatrice defensive position, capturing it an destroying a Foreign Legion battalion.  On March 14th the Viet Minh attack and latter captured the Gabrielle position, destroying an Algerian battalion.  A biography of Colonel Le Tan, the commander of the Viet minh 312th Division.