![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The first was the coastline itself, fairly straight, covered with hard sand and offering no particular difficulties. He described the terrain encountered by the French in Operation Camargue as follows:įrom the coast looking inland, the zone of operations divided itself into seven distinct natural strips of land. The area was made known to an English-speaking audience in the book Street Without Joy by Bernard B. įrench colonial forces carried out a major attack on the Street Without Joy in Operation Camargue in July–August 1953. The Viet Minh had fortified a string of villages along a line of sand dunes and salt marshes between Route 1 and the South China Sea and used these bases to launch ambushes on convoys passing on Route 1 and on the adjacent Hanoi-Saigon railway line which together formed the principal lines of communication between northern and southern Vietnam. Street Without Joy or La Rue Sans Joie was the name given by troops of the French Far East Expeditionary Corps to the stretch of Route 1 from Huế to Quảng Trị during the First Indochina War. ![]()
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