memes

I read about this one Vietnamese soldier, Phan Dinh Giot, who died on the first day of fighting the French colonialists at Dien Bien Phu (Strongpoint Beatrice iirc). Before he joined the PAVN, his father had starved to death under French-Japanese occupation.

Phan Dinh Giot charged an entrenched machine gun dugout while throwing grenades at and into the MG loophole, got shot multiple times, then plugged said loophole with his own mangled body thus trapping the Fr*nch MG crew inside with his grenade and disabling the machine gun. He was mortally wounded by point blank fire and his own grenades but reportedly his last words to his comrades charging up behind him after he cleared the nest were: "3 for 1, not bad!"

His comrades went on to win the battle so decisively that one of the Frog commanders chose to permanently decolonize himself with a grenade in humiliation and Paris surrendered their colonial rule over Northern Vietnam- not bad indeed comrade.