Vietnamese Communist leader Ho Chi Minh at end of World War II. Crowds cheer as he boards DC-3 airplane for flight to France. In Paris, Ho Chi Minh is escorted by French Foreign Minister, Robert Schuman. The Viet Minh flag flies near meeting place. French military officers arrive at meeting. French newspaper article reports that Ho Chi Minh is hosted by the French Government. Plaque on a building reads Congress II, in Vietnamese. Ho Chi Minh and Vo Nguyen Giap speak in turn and are applauded. Hammer and sickle on banners with the single star. Speakers and audience give rousing cheers. Plaque on building reads National Viet Minh Convention, in Vietnamese. Ho Chi Minh mingles with enthusiastic Vietnamese people in rural area of the country.
Vietnamese people carrying objects on poles walk slowly along a pathway leading to a substantial house in walled compound with hills in background. A painted portrait of 19th Century Vietnamese nationalist, Phan Dinh Phung. Three Vietnamese men plowing rice paddy, manually with bamboo pole over shoulders of two who pull plow. Group of men pose for photograph wearing small ladder-like wooden collars over their heads. View of French Prison walls, and watch towers. Francois Pierre Rodier, French Governor-General of Cochinchina from 1902-1906. (World War II period).
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.)
French Indochina war. Supplies dropped from the air, by parachute, fall through a tree, as French troops standing nearby watch. An air evacuation helicopter takes off from a field and flies away. French troops walk along the edge of a field. The same helicopter, bearing red cross markings, lands in an open field, and a wounded French soldier is carried on a litter, to be loaded aboard for air evacuation.
Scenes following the Battle of Tangermünde in Germany during World War II. Wounded German civilians and soldiers on a landing craft. They cross the Elbe River to the American side. A child on a stretcher with his hands and legs bandaged. Soldiers and attendants get off the landing crafts.
Scenes after the destruction of the Tangermünde Bridge over the River Elbe in Germany at the end of World War II in Europe. Wide view of heavily damaged Tangermunde Bridge. It had been blown-up by German forces a month prior during their retreat toward Berlin. American soldier wearing garrison cap or side cap stands on bridge checking papers of German civilians who are attempting to cross the bridge in advance of incoming Soviet forces (preparing to surrender to American and British allies rather than to Soviet forces). German civilians walk along the damaged bridge. The twisted metal requires that the citizens hold on tightly to their belongings and to small children during the crossing, to avoid falling into the river. A young man holds a young child and belongings as he crosses carefully. Other scenes of men and women holding small children and babies, and luggage and belongings as they cross.
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