Army troops are welcomed in Seattle, Washington as they return from the Korean War. GIs return to Seattle after rugged services on the Korean Front. GIs and troops aboard USS General LeRoy Eltinge at sea. The army transport USS General LeRoy Eltinge (AP-154) arrives at a harbor and gets a harbor welcome. An officer waves at civilians. Women standing with bouquets wave at the GIs. The GIs disembark from the ship and are greeted by their families and wives. A convoy of trucks loaded with GIs pass through the streets of the city. The citizens of Seattle standing on both the sides of the road welcome the GIs. People welcome them by giving them flowers.
French troops repel the communists from Indochina during the Indochina War. Paratroopers drop in the Indochina Delta. They wade through water. The paratroopers fire guns. French troops advance under Vietminh fire. Machine-guns are fired. Dead soldiers on the ground. The place where the son of French Commander in Chief, Jean Joseph Marie Gabriel de Lattre de Tassigny was killed. Vietnamese run looking scared. The French point guns at them. French troops raise the French flag. They return to a fort in trucks.
U.S. President Dwight D Eisenhower aboard USS Helena, Pacific Ocean. He is en route back to the United States following his visit to Korean during the Korean War. He is accompanied by the Defense Secretary, Charles Wilson and General Macarthur. The President talks to the officials.
The freighter SS Yorkmar, owned by the Bethlehem Steel Company, and operated by the Calmar Line, is aground on an open beach north of Grays Harbor, Washington State, United States. A ship's officer and some members of the crew are seen briefly,on the shore. A Coast Guard helicopter hovers over her stern while carrying a line out to the ship from the shore. Crew members are seen standing in the water near the Yorkmar,and pulling on a line from the ship to the shore. Others climb a rope ladder up the side of the Yorkmar. The crew remains with the ship awaiting tide to refloat her. (Note: The SS Yorkmar, seen here, should not be confused with a ship of the same name that was torpedoed in 1943. This ship was originally a Liberty Ship, launched in 1944, and named the "Walter Kidde." After the war, she was operated by Calmar SS Corporation of New York and renamed the "Yorkmar," in 1947.)
French soldiers attack Communist forces in Vietnam, French Indo China. With heavy artillery and napalm bombs, they blast villages in which the Communist rebel forces have entrenched themselves. They fire artillery. Airplanes in flight dropping bombs during "Operation Mercury". Smoke arises due to the firing and bombardment. Some rebel forces surrender to French forces. French soldiers examining wounds of a Communist Vietnamese soldier. Communist prisoners of war seated on the ground. Some prisoners are being handed cigarettes. Women and children refugees and elderly Vietnamese citizens walk towards safe places behind French lines.
French troops (French Far East Expeditionary Corps) attack the Vietminh Red troops in Vietnam, French Indochina. Soldiers fire artillery (M114 155 mm howitzer). Explosions far in the field. French and Vietnamese soldiers marching through a field. Two soldiers wading in a river, carrying an injured patient. A French soldier with foot injury from Vietminh traps made out of nails. Man showing a foot trap by the Vietminh. Reinforced by eight new French Battalions, French and Vietnam forces launch the heaviest attack of the eight year old war. French and Vietnamese soldiers cross a rice field.
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