Failure
The Sam Neua team, which was in advance, as it was closer to Dien Bien Phu, joined Sassi's GCMA and taped it into the outpost. According to Sassi, the heading commandos were only a few dozens of kilometers from Eliane.
Eliane fell on April 31 but this failed operation was followed by the cancelled Operation Vulture. Eventually, Dien Bien Phu surrendered on May 7, 1954, though Sassi's emergency column found rare Dien Bien Phu survivors who had escaped through the jungle, approximatively 150.
After the war, the military jury charged General Cogny – who ordered the Dien Bien Phu garrison to surrender from his base in Hanoi – for the operation's failure as the "emergency column" GCMA was parachuted too late.
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