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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
Wounded French troops from Indochina, on way home to France, stop at Hickam Air Force Base, Oahu, Hawaiian Territory.

French troops returning to France from Indochina arrive at Hickam Air Force Base, Oahu, Territory of Hawaii. Several wounded, on litters, are carried down a ramp from their aircraft. Change of scene to inside a hangar at the base, where a Red Cross bus is parked and group of Red Cross volunteer women are seen at a Red Cross Canteen. Several Red Cross buses and vehicles are parked at the hangar entrance. A large sign above the canteen reads: "Aloha, from the Hawaii Red Cross Chapter Hickam Air Evac Canteen, American Red Cross Volunteers." Scene shifts to a Military Air Transport Service (MATS) Boeing C-97 aircraft taxiing in, on a wet ramp at Hickam Field.

Date: 1954, June 29
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675043817
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
Prime Minister Pierre Mendes France visits Tunisia and meets with Habib Bourguiba

Prime Minister Pierre Mendes France in Tunisia. He visits with Habib Bourguiba.

Date: 1954
Duration: 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675056054
Street scenes and crowded markets of Paris, France in the mid 1950s.

A French woman mops stairs. A group of French women including Marie Dupont, works in a protective goggle manufacturing factory in Paris. A horse carriage on a Paris street near busy city markets. A blind accordion player plays music in street. Men and women shop at open market. Woman buys vegetables and produce and looks inside a butcher's meat shop. A horse bust sign above a horse meat shop. Shoes, sweaters, and other items on display in stores. Marie looks at a skirt in an open shop. Excerpt is from an anti-communist propaganda piece in the mid 1950s.

Date: 1954
Duration: 2 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028937
Major Rufus Hessberg, Sergeant Curtiss and Sergeant Pollier at Nice Airport, France for a rescue mission.

Air Search for United States Air Force aircraft C-47 which crashed in French Italian Alps. Paramedics prepare to board a C-47 for personnel and equipment drop in crash site area. Paramedics don their gear before boarding C-47. Major Rufus Hessberg, Sergeant Curtiss and Sergeant Pollier of 84th Air Rescue Squadron of Rhein-Main Air Base in Germany get ready. Sergeant Curtiss inspects gear of paramedics. Paramedics board a C-47 aircraft.

Date: 1954, October
Duration: 2 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675042028