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Battle of Hanoi during First Indochina War between France and Viet Minh Vietnamese, 1946.
Film begins showing an army truck filled with Viet Minh soldiers driving on a street in Hanoi, Indochina (Vietnam), during the Battle of Hanoi in December 1946 (early in First Indochina War). Next, French soldiers wearing berets are seen in defensive positions at a port. Bursting bombs from Viet Minh attack raise black smoke in the background as civilians run away from the area, and Viet Minh troops rush forward taking up positions in Hanoi. Views of civilians hunkering down behind trees, under cars, and other means of protection, while plumes of black smoke rise in the near background. More scenes of civilian refugees fleeing. A man carrying two young children runs by a building with sign "Chi-Thành" (denoting the Duong Chi Thanh street area and neighborhood of Hanoi). A fire raging in the background. Viet Minh troops in defensive positions behind a wall. Activity along a tree-lined avenue. A police van with French and Vietnamese identification driving along a road with a Red Cross flag flying above it. Injured youth lying on a sidewalk with another teenage boy beside him. A nurse in white attire, directing men carrying a wounded person on a litter. Jeep in background with text sign "Trung Liet" on its hood (denoting the Hanoi neighborhood of Trung Liệt). A makeshift outdoor first aid station. Smoke from fires obscuring part of the scene.
General Philippe Leclerc in Indochina. Ruins of city and men inspect the damaged site in French Indochina
French General Philippe Leclerc greets an arriving General and stands with others of the Forces Expéditionnaires Françaises d'Extrême-Orient, FEFEO. Scene is at an airfield in French Indochina. General Leclerc presents awards and recognition to several soldiers standing at attention. One of the soldiers, a colonial, wears a bandage on his head. Another soldier is seen with arm in a sling. The ruins of an Indochina city. The damaged buildings and debris. Dead Viet-Minh lying on ground. A French guard stands on duty outside a building. Men inspect the damaged site.
French troops battle Viet Minh insurgents in Indochina
Activities of French soldiers in French Indochina after World War II. A soldier drives a jeep over a bridge spanning a river. The ruins of a town with active fires still burning. Soldiers carrying rifles move though the streets searching for Viet Minh insurgents. A soldier looks through binoculars. Soldiers lying on ground in firing position. Several of the troops are French marine infantry. The soldiers fire. Smoke in the background. A soldier with rifle seated. French artillery being fired into the town. A soldier looks through binoculars from a tank, and with two civilian government officials seated next to him observing the battle.