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French troops waging war in a village in Vietnam
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.
China builds Burma Road to carry war materiel and supplies and creates flood of Yellow River to thwart Westward expansion of Japanese occupied territory
Japanese officials meeting in strategy session. Japanese infantry on mission to cut Chinese supply lines during 2nd Sino-Japanese war. Black smoke rises as they move along a river bank. Chinese prisoner-workers are forced to rebuild railroads destroyed by the Chinese people during their great Westward trek. Japanese soldier closely guards workers. A Japanese army armored train underway on the rebuilt railroad, as Japanese soldiers cheer. Animated map shows China's supply lines by sea, to Tsingtao, Hangchow, and Amoy, cut off by Japanese naval blockade. Japanese Navy launch with officers and crew moving near commercial ships as they take over Chinese river ports. War materiel and other supplies destined for China, including trucks, sit idle, unable to be transported to their destinations. Large oil tanks and drums of gasoline are shown, as well as gun barrels and a flightline filled with parked Curtiss P-36 Hawk aircraft. The Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer Asakaze (DD-3) and another, next to it, in a Chinese river port. A Japanese freighter with anchored weighed, secured by long lines to a wharf. Small boats flying Japanese Naval ensigns are next to it. View of map showing china, Burma, Indo-China, and Chungking, with Japanese blockading fleet stationed in the South China Sea. It traces path of narrow gauge rail line from Indo-china to Kumming,China, where it connected to an overland road to Chungking. Next it traced the old Camel Caravan route, across China, from Russia. Narrator notes these were to small to be useful and too close to Japanese-occupied territory. Next, the map traces a railroad that from the port of Rangoon to Lashio, Burma. It is separated from the road to Chungking, by mountains and gorges. Views of the actual mountainous terrain. Animal pack trains moving through the area. Construction engineers in a large drafting room designing a road to transit the area. View of modern road-building caterpillar tractor equipment of the type needed to accomplish this. View of Chinese laborers using manpower instead. They push large rollers and employ pickaxes and other hand-held tools to carve away and dig road beds. Masses of Chinese laborers at work, carving a road along the edge of a mountain. Two-men teams using manual tampers to pound down the roadbed. Children are employed along with adults. A woman with a baby on her back, pounding large rocks into gravel, surrounded by other children doing the same. View from above of the "Burma Road," the product of their labors, winding its way through the mountains and gorges. Many scenes of trucks moving along portions of the Burma Road. P-40 airplanes flying past white cumulus clouds, overhead. Animated map shows continued expansion of Japanese occupied areas to encompass two thirds of the rail lines in China with goal of controlling the remainder, starting at Chengchow, in Summer, 1938. View of Chengchow region, on banks of the Yellow River. Map illustrates flow pattern of the Yellow River. View from past of the Yellow River's Spring floods toward the Sea, with Chinese people throwing rocks onto dikes that keep the river flowing in a more Northerly direction than its former course. Illustration shows how with Japanese encrouching on Chengchow, the Chinese decided to destroy those dikes and allow the river to flood over its former more Southerly course. Japanese soldiers being inundated by the flooding river. Japanese infantry and tanks regrouping on their occupied side of the new (old) path of the Yellow River. Local Chinese residents of Chengchow, wade with belongings as they leave their flooded homes.
French and Vietnamese forces use bomber aircraft to fight the Communist forces in Vietnam, French Indochina.
French (French Far East Expeditionary Corps) and Vietnamese forces attack the Vietminh in Vietnam, French Indochina. Bombarding and firing on the field. Wrecked and burning vehicles on the field. Soldiers move forward for attack. Soldiers fire rifles. A soldier fires with a machine gun (likely a M2 Browning). Bomber planes dropping bombs over a field. A tank fires at a hill. Smoke arises due to bombarding. Soldiers at a burning village.
French political official makes inspection tour of French forces in Indochina and visits Royal compound in Laos
French political official visits French forces and installations in Indochina. Aerial views of the French military installation at Vinh-Yen. A sign:' Vinh Yen' painted on roof of building to be easily seen from the air. A French sentry stands on the roof of a building. The French political official and military officers confer. The official and his French military entourage visit the royal compound in Laos. Several small Laotian flags with the elephant symbol on them are seen on front of building. The Laotian military escorts take off their shoes at the entrance. The French official and military walk on a road. Laotian children line both sides of the road waving small flags.
French Army General,Jean de Lattre de Tassigny arrives at French Indochina from Saigon during First Indochina War.
Arrival of General Tassigny in French Indochina during First Indochina War. Large crowd of civilians gather. French Army General,Jean de Lattre de Tassigny arrives from Saigon. Staff officers and Vietnamese officials welcome and receive General. Vietnamese girl presents bouquet to the General.
French troops and Chinese Communist forces fight as Pierre Mendes France gets off from an aircraft in French Indochina.
French troops and Chinese Communist forces fight in French Indochina. The Chinese troops walk on a road. Smoke rises in the background. Explosions in the background. Smoke rises due to explosions. The damaged area. A man walks on the road. A woman and children on the road. A tank rolls down on the road. A truck burns. The troops and tanks advance. The trucks drive on the road. Prime Minister of France Pierre Mendes France gets off from an aircraft in Geneva. Dignitaries and officials at the airport as men take pictures.
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