French General Philippe Leclerc greets an arriving General and stands with others of the Forces Expéditionnaires Françaises d'Extrême-Orient, FEFEO. Scene is at an airfield in French Indochina. General Leclerc presents awards and recognition to several soldiers standing at attention. One of the soldiers, a colonial, wears a bandage on his head. Another soldier is seen with arm in a sling. The ruins of an Indochina city. The damaged buildings and debris. Dead Viet-Minh lying on ground. A French guard stands on duty outside a building. Men inspect the damaged site.
Activities of French soldiers in French Indochina after World War II. A soldier drives a jeep over a bridge spanning a river. The ruins of a town with active fires still burning. Soldiers carrying rifles move though the streets searching for Viet Minh insurgents. A soldier looks through binoculars. Soldiers lying on ground in firing position. Several of the troops are French marine infantry. The soldiers fire. Smoke in the background. A soldier with rifle seated. French artillery being fired into the town. A soldier looks through binoculars from a tank, and with two civilian government officials seated next to him observing the battle.
Activities of crew aboard USS Shangri-La during Operation Crossroads in the Pacific Ocean. A man looks from bridge of a ship. Men behind a glass screen on flight deck. Ship's crew on the flight deck of aircraft carrier. Navy enlisted men in ranks, march to the bow of the USS Shangri-La. View of the forward part of the flight deck. U.S. Navy aircraft, TBMs spotted on port side. Crew assembled on the bow, TBM in the foreground. Officer looks through binoculars
U.S. Navy F6F Hellcat land aboard USS Shangri-La during Operation Crossroads in the Pacific Ocean. U.S. Navy F6F Hellcat getting wave-off. F6F makes an arrested landing aboard aircraft carrier, several landings. F6F on flight deck. Maintenance crew work on recovery of the aircraft. F6Fs take off.
U.S. Navy F6F aboard USS Shangri-La during Operation Crossroads in the Pacific Ocean. Captain takes bearing. U.S. Navy F6F (drone) in the background. F6F spotted on each side of the flight deck. Crew stands beside the F6F on flight deck F6F (drones) on end of flight deck
Two British War Brides of United States Servicemen on board the SS Argentina after World War II. Woman doting on her baby. Three women sit together as their infant children sit on their laps. Woman smiles as she and her infant daughter look at the camera. Two smiling women holding their children, the woman on the left with an infant and on the right, a female toddler. The women and their children have dinner together onboard. Toddler in a play pen playing with a doll. A mother comforts her crying child on the playpen. A child with wavy hair uses a potty for potty training. The SS Argentina. British women disembark the SS Argentina. Women being interviewed by an immigration officer. The other British women lined up behind. British women reunite with their US servicemen husbands and mothers-in-law in the American Red Cross Auditorium.