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.
Family members and others bid farewell to Marie Dionne in Canada. She forsakes the material world for the spiritual. She is a quintuplet. People and her family members enter the Servants of the Blessed Sacrament Convent (Sherbrooke, Qc. – 580,rue Dufferin – Canada J1H4N1). Family members bid farewell to her. Donning the habit of a postulant, Marie Dionne hugs her mother for the last time. Man closes the wooden covent window. Marie Dionne, receiving the name of Sister Marie Rachel, is escorted by the Mother Superior to join the other nuns in prayer. Nuns in prayer.
Queen Elizabeth on her tour to Australia. The queen arrives in train. A large crowd gathers to watch the Queen and greets her. The Queen visits to a state sanctuary for Koala bears. She walks with a man and watches the bears.
The prevalence of hula hoops in Germany. Children on street play with the hula hoops. A fat man in his office dances with hula hoops. Girls engaged in exercising with the hula hoops.
Polish teenagers perform with hula hoops in Poland. Shots of men playing jazz on bass and piano. The girls dance with the hula hoops. A fat man tries to use the hula hoop and fails. Motion picture cameraman shooting the scene also swivels his hips.
Lt Colonel John T Whitaker speaks before a map on OSS morale operations in Italy. The map points Palermo, Sicily, Tunis, Bizerte and other places. Colonel outlines OSS propaganda and psychological warfare operations during the allied invasions of Sicily and Italy proper. He explains leaflets techniques and rumor spreading by OSS infiltration teams and the use of clandestine radios. Airplanes in flight drop leaflets. People walk. A man reads a leaflet. (World War II period).
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