Crew of the aircraft carrier USS Oriskany (CVA-34) begins recovery and cleanup actions following an accidental fire from flares aboard the ship. Activity on the hangar deck. Four crewmen carry the body of a fire victim on a stretcher. Officers and men assess the damaged areas. Sailors holding hose lines. A rescue team runs across hangar deck carrying injured sailor on a stretcher. Sailors carry body of a fire victim across the flight deck. A SH-3A helicopter parked behind them. Hoses seen all about on flight deck.
Arrival of General Tassigny in French Indochina during First Indochina War. Large crowd of civilians gather. French Army General,Jean de Lattre de Tassigny arrives from Saigon. Staff officers and Vietnamese officials welcome and receive General. Vietnamese girl presents bouquet to the General.
Viet Minh prisoners are convoyed in French Indochina during First Indochina War. Church building. Group of Viet Minh prisoners from the 308th Brigade captured at post of Yen Cu Ha are being convoyed toward the battlefield and herded into enclosures. Their arms being tied behind their backs. Dead soldier on ground. View of small native village. Soldiers holding pistol and machine gun walk past bomb damaged buildings. They step over bodies of dead Viet Minh defenders.
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.
French soldiers engaged in Indochina war. Soldiers on army vehicles advance on a road near a town. Trucks parked on side of the road. French tractors clear paths through overgrown areas and pass through muddy fields.
French gunboats operate in rivers of Indochina. A barrel of a gun on a ship. A French soldier looks through binoculars. A Vietnamese prisoner with his hands tied at the back smokes a cigarette. An aircraft flies overhead. Views through portholes of armored river boats.