Raid on Coc-Leu*
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Date: October 3, 1953*                     
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Battle Location:  Coc-Leu, near the Sino-Vietnamese border*
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Battle Type:  France assault vs. North Vietnam defend*
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Design by:  C. B. Blackard*
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Scenario description: From Bernard Fall's book, "Street without Joy":  "By the end of 1953, Some GCMA (Composite Airborne Commando Group - i.e. French-led guerrillas) operations began to assume strategic importance.  One of their most brilliant operations was a combined attack on the important enemy supply center of Lao-Kay, a city on the Sino-Vietnamese border, connected by a bridge with its sister city of Coc-Leu on the other side of the river.  On October 3, six hundred T'ai and Meo tribesmen raided Coc-Leu, supported by a French paratroop platoon which was dropped in directly over the targer; the whole operation being reinforced by an intensive bombardment by B-26s."*
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Note: If played against the AI, the human player should be the French.*
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Source:  Fall, "Street Without Joy" p. 275 
 








