Supplies are parachuted to French troops battling Viet Minh in Diên Biên Phu. A bulldozer is air dropped using five parachutes, on November 21, 1953. A French fighter bomber dives low over a Viet Minh position. French troops fire field artillery piece. Smoke rises all around the battlefield. French infantry fight their way up a wooded hillside (many trees broken from combat effects). They fire small arms and mortars. They cook over open fires. Aerial view of French encampment at Diên Biên Phu, in February, 1954, with smoke rising from many small fires.
General Henri Navarre, French High Commissioner and Commander in Chief of Indochina, plots tactics with his staff during the French-Indochina war. He studies a map. French paratroops stand in a field with their gear ready. A Ju-52 trimotor transport aircraft (French Amiot AAC 1 Toucan) is seen behind them. General Navarre looks through binoculars. Other officers behind him. General Navarre and his staff discuss tactics as they look at a map posted on a display tripod. He emphasizes and points with a cane on the ground as he discusses tactics with his staff. French officers talk near a communications center in the field. A French officer looks at a map on a table.
In a conference room of the White House, Washington, DC, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs Senate Bill S. 2150 authorizing the United States to collaborate with Canada in creation of the St. Lawrence Seaway. The President holds up the documents. and signs them. A map of St. Lawrence Seaway is displayed behind the gathering of officials that includes the principal Congressional sponsors, Senator Wiley and Representative Dondero. Also present is Senator Ferguson and the Canadian Ambassador, Arnold Heeney. Views of President Eisenhower signing. He gives a pen to a person seated next to him. The map of the Seaway is shown up close. President Eisenhower greets and sits.
Activities of United States Air Force 374th Troop Carrier Wing at Tachikawa Air Base in Tokyo, Japan. Planes parked at the air base. A sign: '374th Troop Carrier Wing', 'Hospital Evacuation'. Wounded are carried on litters. A sign: Tachikawa Air Freight. Men load boats, jeeps and tires into a freight aircraft. Wounded men are transferred to a hospital van. U.S. soldiers wearing military gear board a plane. 'Tachikawa Air Base, 374th Troop Carrier Wing' written on the boarding ladder. The U.S. Air Force plane takes off.
Base operations of U.S. Air Force at Ashiya Air Base in Japan. An animated map shows the air path between Tokyo and Ashiya. A USAF plane taxis. A pilot in the cockpit. Signs on a building read : 'Ashiya Air Base', 'Elevation 106' and 'Base operations'. A fork lift carries cartons and loads them into a freight aircraft. Men load drums into the aircraft. The plane taxis. A pilot in the cockpit.
A USAF freight aircraft lands and it is unloaded in Japan. A pilot in the cockpit. The plane takes off. The pilot and a copilot at the controls. A U.S. plane is in flight. Views of soldiers in the plane. Aerial views of an air base. The plane lands. A man talks on headsets. Soldiers unload the plane. Men take out a military truck through the ramp of the freight aircraft. Trucks, cartons and drums are unloaded from the aircraft. The drums are transfered into a truck. Men transfer cargo, cylinders, airplane wings and boats to the transport truck. U.S. soldiers disembark from the plane and move into a field. Soldiers stand on the air base ground. The plane takes off and flies.
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