By the way the sources such as I just showed you, guarantees that while the memoir quote is fake, the information is fundamentally accurate, and far, far, from from being “ pure urban legend”.
I guess it would help if I put the link up.
Book Title: Following Ho Chi Minh: Memoirs of a North Vietnamese Colonel (Crawford House, New South Wales, 202 pages, A$24.95)
http://www.marine-family.org/vva/jane2.htm