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Re: Stig, since you enjoy history, this article is for you
« Reply #1 on: November 30, 2020, 11:51:41 PM »
Looks like a "must have" vehicle for the coming civil war! Kymco know about this? Har, har!
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Re: Stig, since you enjoy history, this article is for you
« Reply #2 on: December 01, 2020, 02:45:48 AM »
Constructed to be airdropped.
But built too late to have helped, or to have been airdropped - as were some brave Legionnaires --  into the siege at Dien Bien Phu, where such mobile artillery would have been of no help to the French.
(as an old Army medic I was interested enough to track down a book written by a French army surgeon who survived that siege,  and the resulting death march after their surrender. The English translation is a very hard book to find!)
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Re: Stig, since you enjoy history, this article is for you
« Reply #3 on: December 01, 2020, 03:16:36 AM »
Constructed to be airdropped.
But built too late to have helped, or to have been airdropped - as were some brave Legionnaires --  into the siege at Dien Bien Phu, where such mobile artillery would have been of no help to the French.
(as an old Army medic I was interested enough to track down a book written by a French army surgeon who survived that siege,  and the resulting death march after their surrender. The English translation is a very hard book to find!)
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Grauwin. Read the book many years ago.
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Re: Stig, since you enjoy history, this article is for you
« Reply #4 on: December 01, 2020, 02:39:47 PM »
Grauwin. Read the book many years ago.
For those interested:

In 1954 Paul-Henri Grauwin published his memoir,  J'étais médecin à Diên Biên Phu.

Several years ago I read of this book, and through the interlibrary loan system*, obtained James Oliver's English translation published in 1955.
This  old book came from the library in Philadelphia, in a box - and in such delicate condition that I had to sign a waiver to accept it on loan!

It was pretty cool to hold and read a book which was published so close to the actual events.

It seems that the latest edition of the book has been republished in 2015.

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* sadly, the interlibrary loan system has been much curtailed, at least in Ohio, first by finances - and now by Covid.  I am now limited to books only available on a "public" shelf somewhere in OHIO. (universities, libraries, etc.)  At one time I had access to the biggest libraries in the USA. The original cost was $.25 for the postcard to let me know it was in. It was astounding that if a book was, say, on a shelf in the Chicago public library - I could check it out in my tiny village branch library!
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