Activities of U.S. Cavalry tanks in Korea during the Korean War. U.S. troops examine North Korean T-34 tank. U.S. M4A3E8 Sherman tanks in operation. Mountains in background. U.S. tanks go through an open field. M4 Tank passes through muddy terrain. U.S. M4 tanks take up positions and fire guns at distant targets. Smoke rises from exploding shells. Two U.S. Army field grade officers consult a map and converse.
Koreans mobilizing during the Korean War. Civilians walk aside road. Some military recruits shouldering rifles and civilians walk aside road. Soldiers standing. Demonstrators in street carrying banners. Large contingent of new recruits enters Army training facility.
French paratroops preparing to board JU-52 (Amiot AaC 1 Toucan) trimotor transport aircraft for an air drop. Puppy dog mascot seen amongst their packs. They board the aircraft. Views of French paratroops descending from the JU-52 tromotor aircraft, and landing in a field in Indochina.
Supplies are parachuted to French troops battling Viet Minh in Diên Biên Phu. A bulldozer is air dropped using five parachutes, on November 21, 1953. A French fighter bomber dives low over a Viet Minh position. French troops fire field artillery piece. Smoke rises all around the battlefield. French infantry fight their way up a wooded hillside (many trees broken from combat effects). They fire small arms and mortars. They cook over open fires. Aerial view of French encampment at Diên Biên Phu, in February, 1954, with smoke rising from many small fires.
General Henri Navarre, French High Commissioner and Commander in Chief of Indochina, plots tactics with his staff during the French-Indochina war. He studies a map. French paratroops stand in a field with their gear ready. A Ju-52 trimotor transport aircraft (French Amiot AAC 1 Toucan) is seen behind them. General Navarre looks through binoculars. Other officers behind him. General Navarre and his staff discuss tactics as they look at a map posted on a display tripod. He emphasizes and points with a cane on the ground as he discusses tactics with his staff. French officers talk near a communications center in the field. A French officer looks at a map on a table.
Activities of United States Air Force 374th Troop Carrier Wing at Tachikawa Air Base in Tokyo, Japan. Planes parked at the air base. A sign: '374th Troop Carrier Wing', 'Hospital Evacuation'. Wounded are carried on litters. A sign: Tachikawa Air Freight. Men load boats, jeeps and tires into a freight aircraft. Wounded men are transferred to a hospital van. U.S. soldiers wearing military gear board a plane. 'Tachikawa Air Base, 374th Troop Carrier Wing' written on the boarding ladder. The U.S. Air Force plane takes off.
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