Air-to-air as United States Army's Attacker AH-1G Cobra takes off from field. Attacker Helicopter AH-1G seen flying over the jungle area. U.S. riverine force boats move upriver in a line. (Vietnam War period).
United States Navy Medical Civic Action Program (MedCAP) in Vietnam. The MedCAP is set on the porch of a Vietnamese school. Villagers line up for a medical examination. The villagers are examined with a stethoscope. A child is given treatment. Several villagers sit on the porch and wait for their turns. The medical officers write on cards. Tablets and ointments are kept in medical boxes. Women stand with children. Men and women stand in long lines for a check-up.
Captured Viet Cong film shows their methods and tactics. Viet Cong soldier winds mopic film around frame and places film in solution. He views film over table and makes special effects title shots. Young Vietnamese boy stands next to the Viet Cong. (Vietnam War period).
Landing craft loaded with French troops make their way through the Bamboo Canal in Vietnam. Troops disembark from the landing craft on river bank near port of Coi-Co at the junction of Song-Thai-Binh. They cross open fields and canal ( some with supplies on their backs). Local children seen with water buffaloes. A truck is ferried across the canal. Advance is held up as they encounter Viet-Minh resistance at a village. French soldiers dig in. They fire machine guns and mortars. Thatched-roofed house burns as they occupy the village.
Vietnam under French occupation and working for the Indochinese Society of Rubber Plantations. Rural family hut with straw roof and children sitting on the ground outside. Still image of a wood plank road. Vietnamese laborers carrying loading sacks of food onto a boat. Vietnamese families in hills and fording a stream. A woman with baby on her back is pulled up an embankment. The people assemble to camp and view the body of one of their dead comrades. Still image of baby and mother viewing body. View of the jungle with a flowing river. Rubber tree being tapped. A sign reads: SOCIÉTÉ INDOCHINOISE DE PLANTATIONS D’HÉVÉAS
A plaque on building reads: National Viet Minh Convention. Ho Chi Minh poses with early Viet Minh comrades. In meeting hall, the wall behind principal speakers is decorated with pictures of Soviet leaders and large picture of Ho Chi Minh, together with signs containing positive slogans. Separately, Ho Chi Minh meets with his cabinet (of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam) in a well appointed conference area set up on a veranda, with decorative iron railings around it. Large maps are on the wall behind Ho Chi Minh at the head of the conference table.