A field in mountainous region in Vietnam. A North Vietnamese flag flies. Soldiers checking a jeep at a check post. 'Post De Controle Halte' written on a board at the post. A man wears arm band reading 'Bao Chi ' in Vietnamese and "press" in English. Press photographers and journalists with Vietnamese soldiers. A shade house and jeeps parked out side. Jeeps painted with "Dien-Bien-Phu" and (7-5-1954) . Soldiers sitting around a table for meeting. Soldiers stand as delegates arrive. A photographer takes pictures from background. Name plates of Colonel Lennuyeux and Van Tien Dung lie on the table. All persons take seats. Colonel Lennuyeux stands and speaks during the meeting. All clap. Photographers take photos. Two men light cigarettes from a flame.
Viet Minh assaulting French positions at Dien Bien Phu, in Vietnam. Artillery pounds French positions. Viet Minh forces run along top of ridge carrying the Viet Minh flag. French troops are taken prisoner and leave trenches with hands raised. Long line of French troops marching in surrender. Viet Minh riding on a tank with their flag displayed. Viet Minh field artillery.
French Union Para-troopers attack the outer ring of Communists besieging Dien Bien Phu in a new measure to relieve pressure on the isolated garrison during Operation Castor. Troops move ahead through fields. A map shows the area of battle. French Para-troopers jump from planes and ascend. Troops advance amidst machine gun and mortar fire. A soldier in position on the ground shoots. Smoke from firing and explosions. Soldiers fire from behind barricades. Soldiers discuss a map. View of the conflict area. Airplanes in the sky.
B-26C takes off. Planes drop bombs in the conflict area. The bombers are followed by C-47 planes marked with crosses and loaded with food and medical supplies for the wounded in the hospitals. Pilot talks on the radio. Men attach supplies to parachutes and drop them from the plane. Air planes flying to evacuate the most critically wounded fighting men captured by the Reds at Dien Bien Phu. People watch as a Sikorsky H-34 helicopter lands. Taking the wounded people on the stretchers to safety in Hanoi. Soldiers and medical personnel help transfer the wounded from the helicopter to hospital tents. Patients receive treatment at the hospital.
Chinese soldiers at Indo supply lines in Vietnam. Red Forces walk along a road and cut vital supplies to besiege Dien Bien Phu. Roads leading to the seaport of Haiphong are mined. Smoke rises. Views of damaged equipment and wounded men. Sign of 'Ben Yen NH, Hanoi'. Vehicles pass on the highway. Vietnamese men repair railroads which are mined. A train passes after overhauling.
C-119 Flying Boxcars and Douglas B-26 Invader aircraft, all bearing French markings, take off from a runway in Indochina. Copilot is seen in cockpit of one C-119, with map on a clipboard. (Note, unconfirmed: Copilot appears to be a U.S. military pilot) French paratroops drop from a C-119 over Dien Bien Phu. View from inside a C-119 as pallets of supplies are dropped from the open rear cargo door. Views from inside a B-26 in formation with others. Pilot adjusts throttles. A bomb is dropped. In cabin of a C-119, crew launches a pallet through open rear cargo door. The pallet appears to containin a set of three large bombs. Views of bombs exploding on the ground.
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