Scenic view of scattered huts in a Vietnamese village. Narrow unpaved roads seen. Green fields are seen around the huts. Birds fly in the cloudy sky.
463rd Airlift Operations in support of humanitarian and combat operations in South East Asia. Interiors of C-130 Hercules aircraft in flight. BLU-82 bomb ("Daisy Cutter") dropped by a parachute. 15000 pound bomb explodes in thick forest area for creation of a landing zone.
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.
Viet Minh in remote areas of Indochina. Ho Chi Minh rides pony into Viet Minh camp where he is applauded. Ho Chi Minh sits up in bed, upon awakening from sleep. Newspaper describes goal of the Viet Minh as establishment of an independent nation
French soldier fires rifle through bars of window in a building. French troops enter destroyed and burning Vietnamese village. They set fire to thatched roofs of huts. A French soldier walks through rubble past body of a Vietnamese. French soldier herds several Vietnamese prisoners from a building. One prisoner has cuts and burns on his face. French soldiers talk with a small Vietnamese boy. A Vietnamese woman and small boy help and aged woman away from scenes of battle. They fearfully bow in obeisance to the cinematographer as they walk past. French soldiers in a jeep pass burning thatched huts. French troops set up a machine gun and kill a Vietnamese who rolls out from shrubs in front of a hut. A French gunner on a tank. Entire village ablaze being consumed by flames.
In the morining, Ho Chi Minh rises and Ho Chi Minh comes down a wooden ladder, from upper floor of rustic shelter. he puts on shoes and joins his soldiers in morning exercise and a game of volleyball. He reads documents in his jungle office and types correspondence. A bamboo fencing with trees in the background. A pigeon on the ground. (Timeframe is near end of French Indochina War.)