when is was in the army i bought “Street without Joy”. if i recall the battle was on Route 15 in and around where we had a base camp at ccamp Bear Cat near a South Vietnamese special forces post. after i rotated back to the U.S. i heard it was over run.
When I was a boy, I read The New Centurions by Jean Larteguy. This started a curiosity about the French Indochina War.
I read Street Without Joy and Hell In A Very Small Place.
The French had the Vietnamese doing what they wanted, but they were fighting the war on a shoestring.
I find it interesting that WWI continues to affect us to this day.