“Let’s have no illusions,” Navarre told his staff officers the second night. “I hope the Viets aren’t going to start again tonight. We shall have to find some other solution.” It was to prove a nightmare; there was little in the way of food, water, or medical support, and little cover. The Viets did, contrary to Colonel Piroth’s opinion, know how to use their artillery pieces, and in fact they had positioned them brilliantly.
