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French soldiers advance through the rugged terrain,Mekong river and ammunition being dropped through parachutes in Laos
The veteran French jungle fighters advance in Laos. French soldiers advance through the rugged terrain. They cross the Mekong river. The men advance through dense jungle. The aircraft drop the ammunition through parachutes. The soldiers look at the parachute descending. The ammunition supplies piled up. Soldiers fire an artillery. A soldier holding a gun seated in a boat.
United States Vice President Richard Nixon in a meeting at Rue Gia Long palace in Saigon, Vietnam
United States Vice President Richard Nixon arrives at the Dinh Gia Long Palace (now known as the Ho Chi Minh City Museum 65 Lý Tự Trọng, Bến Nghé, Quận 1, Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh 70000, Vietnam) in Saigon, Vietnam. Flags of the United States and Vietnam fly atop the palace. Soldiers dressed in white stand for an honor guard. Vice President Nixon, American Ambassador to Indochina (Cambodia, Laos and South Vietnam) Donald R. Heath, along with other officials from Vietnam enter the palace where they have a meeting. After the meeting they come out of the palace.
Change of command for French Far East Expeditionary Force. Arrival of General Henri Navarre and departure of General Raoul Salan.
Clip depicts arrival of French General Henri Navarre, replacing General Raoul Salan as Supreme Commander of the French Far East Expeditionary Force during the First Indochina War. Opening scenes show General Navarre (wearing long sleeves) greeting General Salan (with wide rolled-up shirt sleeves) near a parked DC-3 airplane. General Navarre and General Salan walk side by side, inspecting military forces who are standing at attention. Next, another French officer (in short sleeved shirt) introduces General Navarre to various officers. Scene changes to General Salan at airfield in Laos as he inspects and says goodbye to the military forces he had commanded. He greets French military officers and many government officials in white suits in a receiving line, and then shakes hands with others who are gathered near a parked aircraft. In the next scene, French General Henri Navarre (wearing uniform jacket) descends steps of a DC-4 aircraft and greets a number of military and civilian officials. Close-up of several armed Indochinese soldiers standing at attention. In the final scene, General Salan and General Navarre are seen standing on an airfield tarmac, side by side, talking to a civilian official wearing a hat and to another French General.