Operations aboard USS Essex (CVA-9) during the Lebanon crisis, in 1958. View beneath wing of an aircraft on catapult, as the catapult crew hooks bridle to aircraft. Officer leaves the ship's message center. Hatchway leads into message center. Two junior officers in the communication center. Teletype machines printing out messages aboard ship. Views beneath wing of jet as one of the catapult crew hooks it up to the catapult.
French Union Forces thrust armored spearhead through communist controlled territory during Operation Camargue. A score of Viet Minh Forces crushed. Jeeps carry soldiers. French soldiers advance in Indochina. Soldiers fire guns.
French soldiers combat Viet-Minh in Indochina. French artillerymen load and fire 105 mm Howitzers. Armed French infantry advance through jungles and pass burning huts.
French troops load and fire 105 mm Howitzers in Indochina. A large number of Viet-Minh prisoners walk with hands on their heads, escorted by armed French soldiers. The prisoners are all stripped to the waist. They carry wounded comrade on litter. Some carrying food supplies, including life pigs, on poles over their shoulders. French soldiers treat wounded comrades. A French B-26 flies overhead.
Scene of a Viet Minh attack on the Bai-Thao outpost in Indochina. View of Improvised French military camp site located 15 km from Sept-Pagodes and 8 km from Bentam. A French radio operator seated at a table alongside his equipment. French troops stand nearby and use binoculars to survey the camp area. A crowd gathered around corpses. Feet of one are tied together. Bullets lie near a corpse on the ground. Fly infested corpses after the attack. A sign post reads 'Bai-Thao'. An ambulance truck makes its way past the sign on a dirt road. French Officers talk with a Vietnamese boy. A French soldier stands near an artillery piece and looks out at a winding river. Vietnamese woman rides in a bicycle rickshaw and a man pulls a hand cart in front of French soldiers in parked Sherman tank. Three soldiers look out of the tank hatches. An officer stands atop the tank.
Airplanes parked on airfield. View of sky and clouds from plane in flight. Aerials of field. Aircraft ahead drops bomb on target (bunkers). Smoke arises from explosion. Plane in flight. Plane drops bomb on field.