French troops repel the communists from Indochina during the Indochina War. Paratroopers drop in the Indochina Delta. They wade through water. The paratroopers fire guns. French troops advance under Vietminh fire. Machine-guns are fired. Dead soldiers on the ground. The place where the son of French Commander in Chief, Jean Joseph Marie Gabriel de Lattre de Tassigny was killed. Vietnamese run looking scared. The French point guns at them. French troops raise the French flag. They return to a fort in trucks.
The activities of French soldiers (likely 407th Infantry Regiment) during World War I in Verdun, France. Battlefield sites shown include Vaux Chapitre, Le Bois Fumin, and La Haie Renard. French soldiers stand outside pillboxes in a battle fort area. French artillery fires from a pillbox dug into the hillside. Smoke rises in the foreground. Battlefield landscape views.
The battlefield during World War I at Fleury, Douaumont near Verdun, France. Snow covered battlefield. Destroyed in the field after bombardment. Men walk. Bunker in the field. Damaged Douaumont Fort. Hollow lakes due to bombardment. Men walk wearing warm clothes. Man enters a destroyed building.
Supplies are moved near a fort in Verdun, France during World War I. Horse-carts move with the supplies. French soldiers walk along with the horse-carts. Trees in the area. Houses along the sides of the street. Wrecked building in the area. Soldiers feed donkeys. They load supplies on the donkeys and the donkeys move with supplies on the road.
Two Truckloads of Prussian soldiers drive into the Rhineland city of Koblenz to reinforce it during World War 1. They park near a shuttered Merchant hall and climb down to the street. They assemble and pose for the camera standing around a machine gun set up on the pavement. Scene shifts to view of an old fort partially destroyed.
Opening scene shows some some people gathered near pieces of debris on the sidewalk outside the Roderick Hotel and a 1-cent to 1 dollar store in Centralia, Washington. This is in the wake of the Armistice Day riot in that city that took place in that city, on November 11, 1919. It involved clashes between members of the The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) union and members of the American Legion. A man steps out of a shattered and empty store front on the street. The Washington National Guard was called up by Governor Hart to restore order. Company F of the 3rd Infantry, was sent to Centralia by train on the evening of the 11th from Fort Lewis in Tacoma, Washington. Soldiers of that Company are seen assembling and receiving orders from their officer in Centralia. Next, the soldiers begin marching as guards, on the street in front of the local police station. Some pedestrians watch from a sidewalk. A group of local people crowd together to watch something of interest in a building