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Wounded French troops are welcomed at Hickam Air Force Base, Oahu, Hawaiian Territory, on way home from Indochina

A U.S. Air Force officer shakes hands with a French officer in reception center canteen at Hickam Air Force Base,Oahu, Hawaiian Territory, as French troops pass through on their way home from Indochina. A civilian converses with a wounded French soldier, on a stretcher. A U.S. Navy admiral greets wounded soldiers. The hangar is seen crowded with French troops and American greeters. View shifts to interior of a Red Cross bus set up as an ambulance. Nurses and other medical staff are seen in the bus. U.S. Airmen lift wounded French soldiers into the ambulance bus. In next scene, military police on motorcycles lead two ambulance buses out a gate from the airfield. In another scene where wounded are being loaded aboard an ambulance bus, Hula dancers stand beside the bus and entertain them. The loaded bus moves out with its rear open and medics attending to the wounded passengers. Back in the Air Evac Canteen, greeters and French troops continue to mingle. Closeup of a wounded French soldier on a stretcher, being greeted. A microphone is held near as he converses with the civilian and the admiral, seen earlier.

Date: 1954, June 29
Duration: 3 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675043819
French troops transit Hickam AFB, Hawaii, en route home from Indochina

Closeups of French troops at Hickam Air Force Base, Territory of Hawaii, on their way home to France, after leaving Indochina.They are hosted with refreshments by Red Cross volunteers. The soldiers wear berets, and officers wear caps. They all wear Hawaiian leis of flowers. They board a red cross bus inside a hangar at the base. One aboard the bus speaks through an open window to a woman standing outside.

Date: 1954, June 29
Duration: 1 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675043820
French troops and Chinese Communist forces fight as Pierre Mendes France gets off from an aircraft in French Indochina.

French troops and Chinese Communist forces fight in French Indochina. The Chinese troops walk on a road. Smoke rises in the background. Explosions in the background. Smoke rises due to explosions. The damaged area. A man walks on the road. A woman and children on the road. A tank rolls down on the road. A truck burns. The troops and tanks advance. The trucks drive on the road. Prime Minister of France Pierre Mendes France gets off from an aircraft in Geneva. Dignitaries and officials at the airport as men take pictures.

Date: 1954, July 15
Duration: 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069353
U.S. Navy F8F Bearcat fighters being loaded aboard USS Windham Bay for Indochina War in Alameda, California.

United States aircraft being transported to Indochine during the First Indochina War. USS Windham Bay (CVE-92) at Alameda, California. Sailors load U.S. Navy F8F Bearcat fighters. Crew members work on the aircraft aboard the carrier.

Date: 1954, April 29
Duration: 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078210
Prime Minister Laniel and Minister of Defense René Pleven attend ceremony for fallen Indochina War soldiers and encounter hostile crowd

View of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France. A motorcade arrives at the monument. A large crowd gathers for a ceremony. Officials and dignitaries including French Prime Minister Joseph Laniel and French Defense Minister René Pleven stand by during the ceremony commemorating the sacrifices of French soldiers killed in the war in Indochina. View of wreaths at the site. Following the ceremony, Laniel and Pleven are escorted to separate waiting cars through a hostile crowd of angry French citizens and war veterans, upset by the recent removal of Marshal Juin from the Council of War, and opposed to the Pleven Plan for the European Defense Community or EDC. The officials finally reach their cars through the angry crowd and are driven away.

Date: 1954, April
Duration: 1 min 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675045317
A French nurse Genevieve de Galard returns from First Indochina War in Vietnam and receive welcome in France.

Genevieve de Galard returns to France. She was a French nurse stationed in Hanoi and flew in casualty evacuation flights. She was named as the "Angel of Dien Bien Phu". Evacuated casualties from the battle of Dien Bien Phu carried to a van in Hanoi. Views of Galard, who refused freedom to stay with the wounded Communist captives. Galard flies to Paris and is welcomed by her mother. Large crowd gathers for welcoming her. She addresses the press.

Date: 1954, June 3
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044583