A man woman and child evacuating from Saigon as it is taken by North Vietnamese run from a UH-1 that brought them to the USS Midway. Sailors push the helicopter overboard. Another UH-1 flies over a small U.S. Navy launch and ditches in the sea. The launch moves in to pick up evacuees from the water.
Japanese propaganda film dramatizing the sinking of the HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse off Malaya in December, 1941, during World War II. Contrived scenes include crew in aircraft talking to each other and to their headquarters on radio. Some of the ship bombardment scenes appear to use ship models. Others are actual naval battle scenes.
Mauris Moutet, French Overseas Minister, on visit to Indochina to investigate indigenous rebellion, is escorted by Admiral Thierry d'Argenlieu, in review of Naval contingent on grounds of French military headquarters. The Governor's Palace in Saigon.
General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, Commander of French forces in Indochina, arrives by airplane and is greeted at military air base. He reviews troops arrayed in formation and converses with French Naval officers.
Flags flutter on a building in Laos, French Indochina. Laotian children stand in line with flags in their hands. French Overseas Minister, Marius Moutet, is given a traditional welcome, by residents, who each present him with flowers. Minister Moutet, later visits a Buddhist temple and greets monks, who stand in a line. One of the monks wears French military decorations.
French troops ride on tracked landing vehicles through muddy rice fields and over obstacles, during Indochina conflict. Tracks of the vehicle with mud on it. The vehicles move over a log of wood on the road. They pass through a muddy water stream and arrive at a small town.
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