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French bombers and paratroopers over Indochina; refugees flee communist North Vietnam

Aerial view of Dien Bien Phu showing craters from shelling after the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in the First Indochina War preceding Vietnam War. French Aéronavale (naval air) Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer Maritime patrol bomber in flight. A French pilot radioing from the cockpit. Paratroopers with parachutes drop from bombers. A bomber airdrops supplies. A French camp in Vietnam. French cannons and artillery shooting enemy positions. French troops evacuate injured soldiers from the battlefield. Vietnamese civilians scavenging in Hanoi after the end of the First Indochina War. An elderly woman sat in front of a doorway. A child looks up. French troops leave Vietnam. Communist North Vietnam flag on flagpole in Hanoi. North Vietnamese troops marching. World leaders convene at the 1954 Geneva Conference to decide the fate of Vietnam. Deputy Defence Minister Ta Quang Buu of Vietnam signs the Indochina Conference Armistice Agreement in Geneva on 21 July 1954. Delegates shake hands after the Geneva Conference. Refugees carry their belongings and children as they flee North Vietnam for South Vietnam. Vietnamese refugees crowd in United States Navy boats heading to South Vietnam. Refugee children help United States sailors swab the deck of a ship. The refugees disembark from ship upon arrival in Saigon, South Vietnam. 1954 map of Indochina countries such as Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and North and South Vietnam. Mountains in the border between North and South Vietnam. President of North Vietnam Ho Chi Minh meets and plays with children. A happy girl clapping. Children surround Ho Chi Minh. A child plays with Ho Chi Minh’s beard and Ho Chi Minh smiles. Farmers build new huts in South Vietnam. South Vietnamese men and women but ballots into ballot box during voting. A woman wearing sunglasses and Ao Dai dress smiles after voting in the election. Packs and sacks of rice from the United States government in South Vietnam. Civilians distribute sacks of rice. Farmers receive new equipment and plows from the United States. Farmers harvest rice in rice paddies. Vietnamese men rowing in small boats and traditional Junk. Delegates arrive in Manila, Philippines for the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty September 8, 1954. The Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty is signed. Delegates clapping after the treaty is signed. Vietnamese civilians gather concrete blocks and build houses. A car with bullet holes in window. A dead South Vietnamese politician in car murdered by North Vietnamese agents. North Vietnamese guerrillas hike in the jungle. Men running in front of a burning house in a village under siege by North Vietnam. Burned houses, rubble, and dead civilians in village after a North Vietnamese guerrilla attack. A portrait of Ho Chi Minh above a North Vietnam flag.

Date: 1954
Duration: 5 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675080605
British troops attack German General Erwin Rommel's Army as it flees Libya.

The British attack the German Army in Libya during World War II. British Royal Air Force B-25 planes bomb German desert supply bases in Libya. German General Erwin Rommel flees from the invading forces. A German fighter plane falls in flames. British 8th Army troops advance through rain and mud at Hell Fire Pass. Artillery fired and British Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery at the front. The infantry advances. Wrecked and burning German motorized and mechanized equipment. Wrecked German aircraft in the desert. Many German prisoners taken. Commander of Afrika Korps under General Erwin Rommel, General Ritter Von Thoma taken prisoner and greeted by General Montgomery. The Swastika comes down and the Union Jack goes up.

Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047520
United Nations Support Mission in Libya attempts to help calm unrest in city of Tripoli

Film begins showing areas of extensive cultivation bordering dual highway leading toward dense housing development in the city of Tripoli, Libya. Camera moves to positions successively closer to the buildings. Next, a white van is seen with some uniformed officials near it. It is passed by another white van, with UN painted on its side, and displaying a white flag. Another view of this van driving past a different camera location. This vehicle belongs to the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL). View from behind a civilian taking a photograph of the UN van passing. Scene shifts to center of the city of Tripoli, where a National Security Force soldier is seen next to a tank at a sandbagged position. Another view of the UN van with its flag, passing the camera on a downtown city street. Scene changes to a private car stopped at the side of a road, next to road sign identifying the entrance to the city of Tripoli. A National Security Force sandbagged position is just off the roadside. Soldiers are inspecting the contents of the car. A 1957 Chevrolet hardtop sedan is next in line. Closeup of that car being inspected. Soldiers and civilian officials question a man and search him. Damage to a building seen from a rooftop. An armored car and a tank on the street. Armed men occupying a deep circular position. Arab civilians, with small arms, pose in defensive position inside a vacant concrete building (possibly a parking garage) overlooking a cemetery. Camera pans across them crouched behind protective concrete wall. Scene shifts to downtown, Tripoli, where National Security Force soldiers run to occupy a heavily sandbagged bunker. From inside the bunker, a tank is seen parked on an alleyway. A street scene shows a tank moving very slowly along a street where a private car is parked. Glimpse of possible explosion on hillside in distance. Another view of tank moving slowly as it appears to be parking at side of city street.

Date: 1962, January
Duration: 1 min 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039879
The tactical missile TM-61A in launch position and lifts off at Wheelus Air Base in Tripoli,Libya.

A film shows training and alert drills for the Martin TM-61A Matador First Tactical Missile Squadron at Wheelus Air Base in Tripoli, Libya. A covered Matador on mobile zero-length launcher being towed in the launch area. Matador wings being lowered to fuselage of missile on zero-length launcher by a crane. An airman talks into a walkie talkie. The Matador on the launcher. The nose section of Matador shows name 'Lee's Leaping Lena'. The tactical missile TM-61A in launch position in Libya. An airman flipping the switch. The engine starts and missile lifts off.

Date: 1955
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069389
German forces attack British positions in Battle of Tobruk, Libya, in North Africa during World War II.

German soldiers battle against the British in area of Tobruk Libya during World War II. A map shows the coast of Libya, highlighting Tobruk. A German officer standing with German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel atop a hill and looking through binoculars. German troops with Panzer Tanks including Pz.III, Pz.IV and Italian tanks advance across an open ground. An armored vehicle tows artillery. German soldiers make a barbed wire fencing. A danger signboard (skull face). German soldiers take positions with rifles in trenches in sand terrain. Officers look at a map. German artillery in position to fire. The soldiers load and fire the artillery. Wrecked British aircraft on the ground. German Stuka dive bomber aircraft attack British positions. Fire and explosions on the ground.

Date: 1942
Duration: 3 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675064774
Armed Arab civilian militia members pose, brandishing their weapons in Tripoli, Libya

A craggy mountain in Libya. Armed arab civilian militia brandishing their weapons as they pose for the camera in various places near buildings in Tripoli, Libya. Closeups of militia members, who include mostly young men but also several mature, older men. Two civilian politicians in suits and ties pose in a truck, with armed militia behind them. More images of militia brandishing weapons. Glimpse of one civilian politician pointing past the camera. More views of militia brandishing weapons.

Date: 1962, January
Duration: 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039880