View of two small hangars of MCB-10 with Douglas A-4E Skyhawk tail section sticking out of hangar at Camp Shields in Chu Lai. HMS-12 maintenance shop built by MCB-10. Gear is stacked outside the building. Douglas A-4D Skyhawk in hangar.
Hospital built by MCB-10. Dirty ambulance jeep drives outside the hospital building, stops, backs down at doorway. Jeep is parked directly outside of the hospital doorway. Man on roof of the hospital building. Row of reefers near dry stores Butler building. Dry stores warehouse built by MCB-10. Supplies are sent to a parked truck by a conveyor belt. Supplies are stacked in mud near two buildings joined together.
French Union Para-troopers attack the outer ring of Communists besieging Dien Bien Phu in a new measure to relieve pressure on the isolated garrison during Operation Castor. Troops move ahead through fields. A map shows the area of battle. French Para-troopers jump from planes and ascend. Troops advance amidst machine gun and mortar fire. A soldier in position on the ground shoots. Smoke from firing and explosions. Soldiers fire from behind barricades. Soldiers discuss a map. View of the conflict area. Airplanes in the sky.
B-26C takes off. Planes drop bombs in the conflict area. The bombers are followed by C-47 planes marked with crosses and loaded with food and medical supplies for the wounded in the hospitals. Pilot talks on the radio. Men attach supplies to parachutes and drop them from the plane. Air planes flying to evacuate the most critically wounded fighting men captured by the Reds at Dien Bien Phu. People watch as a Sikorsky H-34 helicopter lands. Taking the wounded people on the stretchers to safety in Hanoi. Soldiers and medical personnel help transfer the wounded from the helicopter to hospital tents. Patients receive treatment at the hospital.
Aircraft AC-47 takes off from runway at Bein Hoa Air Base. AC-47 in flight. Camouflaged AC-47 parked at air base. Crewmen aboard AC-47. Pickup trailer loaded with parachute flares arrives. Trailer is detached from truck. Crewmen place parachute flares in flare rack aboard AC-47.
Interiors of aircraft AC-47 shows crew members boarding plane. Last crewman aboard stores away ladder in tail compartment. Parachute flares in flare rack. AC-47 No 1 engine starts as seen from AC-47 door. Pilots at controls. Radio man and crewman attach lanyard wires to parachute flares.