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General Joseph Lawton Collins greets General Jean De Lattre De Tassigny as he arrives in Washington DC.
French High Commissioner and Commander in Chief of the French Forces in the Far East, General Jean De Lattre De Tassigny visits Washington DC, United States. The Washington Monument in the background. General De Lattre and his staff come down the ramp of a U.S. military aircraft. They assemble on the field and salute. U.S. soldiers give a gun salute. De Lattre and other French officers salute. General Joseph Lawton Collins, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, stands with General Lattre. General Colling makes a speech as he greets and welcomes De Lattre and talks about his great fight in Indochina. Lattre expresses his thanks to the Chief of Staff. He states that he is glad to be in the U.S. amidst his comrade in arms who fought together for the Liberation of France. He talks about the U.S. troops at war in Korea and expresses his concern over the French war against Communism in Indochina. He makes a statement for a French radio. Collins and De Lattre stand together as the latter repeats his speech in French. (Korean War period.)
French troops disembark from Landing craft and fire machine guns and mortars in Indochina.
Landing craft loaded with French troops make their way through the Bamboo Canal in Vietnam. Troops disembark from the landing craft on river bank near port of Coi-Co at the junction of Song-Thai-Binh. They cross open fields and canal ( some with supplies on their backs). Local children seen with water buffaloes. A truck is ferried across the canal. Advance is held up as they encounter Viet-Minh resistance at a village. French soldiers dig in. They fire machine guns and mortars. Thatched-roofed house burns as they occupy the village.
The French Hanoi-to-Lai Chau airlift in Indochina
French North African Colonial troops board a C-47 aircraft. Equipment loaded onto plane at Gia Lam Airfield in Hanoi. The troops seated inside the C-47 aircraft. The aircraft taxis and takes off. Numerous C-47 transport aircraft on the ground. General Salan converses with Deo-Van-Long, Chief of the Thai country. French Moroccan Colonial troops move off airfield, through village and towards an improvised camp. A C-47 takes off. Several oxen are seen on Laichau airfield. A radio operator seated alongside his equipment.
French forces, flying Grumman F8F Bearcat and B-26 bombers, bomb and strafe enemy positions in Vietnam.
French troops cross canal in Indochina. French fliers in Grumman F8 F Bearcat and B-26 bombers strafe and bomb enemy positions. Explosions on ground. French soldiers fire from trenches. Wounded soldiers are treated. A French soldier searches and removes weapons from a dead comrade. Dead Vietnamese.