U.S. Navy heavy Cruiser USS Augusta CA-31 anchors up at Shanghai port for Manila. Admiral Harry Ervin Yarnell,leaves Augusta to command USS Isabel. Admiral receives salutes and farewell from fellow crew members and staff. Few naval soldiers line up and pose. Distant view of USS Augusta departing.6 January 1938.
Air operations aboard the USS Constellation (CVA-64), during the Vietnam war. Several aircraft of Carrier Wing 14 being launched from Constellation flight deck. Yellow shirts giving signals for catapult launches. A-4E moving onto #1 catapult A-4E on catapult area, pilot in cockpit, yellow shirts in right foreground. Bridle is attached. A-4E being launched and airborne with ordnance for airstrike. F-4B is seen from left being launched from #2 catapult. A-4E being launched. A-4E ready for launch, catapult officer gives signal. Green shirt stands,partially inside open hatch in center deck. A-4E being launched and airborne.
Mauris Moutet, French Overseas Minister, on visit to Indochina to investigate indigenous rebellion, is escorted by Admiral Thierry d'Argenlieu, in review of Naval contingent on grounds of French military headquarters. The Governor's Palace in Saigon.
General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, Commander of French forces in Indochina, arrives by airplane and is greeted at military air base. He reviews troops arrayed in formation and converses with French Naval officers.
Flags flutter on a building in Laos, French Indochina. Laotian children stand in line with flags in their hands. French Overseas Minister, Marius Moutet, is given a traditional welcome, by residents, who each present him with flowers. Minister Moutet, later visits a Buddhist temple and greets monks, who stand in a line. One of the monks wears French military decorations.
French troops ride on tracked landing vehicles through muddy rice fields and over obstacles, during Indochina conflict. Tracks of the vehicle with mud on it. The vehicles move over a log of wood on the road. They pass through a muddy water stream and arrive at a small town.