French military officers seated in a transport aircraft in flight over Indochina. Marius Moutet, French Overseas minister, seated at a table with associate. They read newspaper and book and look out the window. Minister Moutet waves symbolically, out the window. Low level aerial views out airplane cockpit window of several buildings, including Angkor Wat, in Cambodia and a Cathedral. View of many small boats in and on the shore of a river.
Islands and shoreline can seen from the rear of French patrol boat sailing off French Indo China Coast. French sailor pulls anchor chain. Officers on barge of French patrol boat. A sailor throws out anchor from the boat. Shows anchored French patrol boat. Passenger ship 'SS Pasteur' pulls toward the patrol boat. Sailors on patrol boat watch as they pass the passenger ship 'Pasteur'. Shows two sailors seated on the bow of patrol ship. 'SS Pasteur' and two native Junks(Chinese sailing boats) move away from the French boat.
The Indo China War in Indochina. Army trucks move in rebel held towns. French soldiers carry wounded men on litters. Troops fire artillery. Dead people on the ground. Natives sitting. Huts and houses of a town on fire. French soldiers move in the streets. The troops are in action for mopping up entrenched Vietnamese. Vietnamese are being transferred onto a truck.
French troops (French Far East Expeditionary Corps) attack the Vietminh Red troops in Vietnam, French Indochina. Soldiers fire artillery (M114 155 mm howitzer). Explosions far in the field. French and Vietnamese soldiers marching through a field. Two soldiers wading in a river, carrying an injured patient. A French soldier with foot injury from Vietminh traps made out of nails. Man showing a foot trap by the Vietminh. Reinforced by eight new French Battalions, French and Vietnam forces launch the heaviest attack of the eight year old war. French and Vietnamese soldiers cross a rice field.
French soldiers attack Communist forces in Vietnam, French Indo China. With heavy artillery and napalm bombs, they blast villages in which the Communist rebel forces have entrenched themselves. They fire artillery. Airplanes in flight dropping bombs during "Operation Mercury". Smoke arises due to the firing and bombardment. Some rebel forces surrender to French forces. French soldiers examining wounds of a Communist Vietnamese soldier. Communist prisoners of war seated on the ground. Some prisoners are being handed cigarettes. Women and children refugees and elderly Vietnamese citizens walk towards safe places behind French lines.
Arrival of General Tassigny in French Indochina during First Indochina War. Large crowd of civilians gather. French Army General,Jean de Lattre de Tassigny arrives from Saigon. Staff officers and Vietnamese officials welcome and receive General. Vietnamese girl presents bouquet to the General.
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