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Tonkin French Indochina 1949 stock footage and images

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French paratroopers arrive at Orly Airfield, France, and prepare for travel to Indochina

Film opens showing French sign pointing to Orly airport entrance. French Army trucks are seen arriving at the field, carrying young men in civilian clothes. A U.S.Air force C-47 transport plane is parked in the background. The men wave cheerfully from the open backs of the trucks. French tricolor and American flags are seen in the breeze. Near the entrance of the base, a French Army major is overseeing the arrival of the trucks. View of sign identifying the American area of Headquarters of the U.S. Air Force 7415th Air Base Group at at Orly Field. Occupants of the trucks jump down after their tailgates are lowered. They remove their duffel bags and footlockers from the trucks, and stand nearby. View of the paratroopers (in civilian clothes) standing in loose formation near their belongings. Close-ups of many. Some use their own cameras to take pictures. One clowns around with a toy stuffed monkey, eliciting smiles from the others. More close-ups of the men. View from behind the loosely assembled men. One carries a bugle in his personal gear. Close-up of the bugle. Wide view of the men killing time as they wait around. A French Foreign Legion officer in a leather jacket and kepi, alongside a paratrooper officer (in civilian clothes, but wearing a foulard) walks with group of the paratroopers. The entire group of men is seen assembling near a hangar building. Men hand out passports to individual men. Some are handed out by a French paratrooper, in uniform, with beret. U.S. Air Force and civilian photographers are in the background. Several paratroopers show their passports for the camera. The paratroopers break out some of their rations and eat. Some pose around a sign prohibiting public access due to construction. Paratroopers saying farewell to women (some tearful). Close-up of one saying goodbye to wife and child. A group all waving goodbye.

Location: Paris France
Date: 1952
Duration: 3 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071121
French troops transit Hickam AFB, Hawaii, en route home from Indochina.

At Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii,vehicles and U.S. Air Force personnel surround the open tail of a Military Air Transport Service C-97 aircraft, carrying French troops en route home from Indochina. Scene change shows the French troops wearing flower leis, being treated to refreshments by Red Cross volunteers, in a hangar at the base. A U.S. Air Force officer greets some of the French troops. Change of scene shows group of Americans greeting French troops as they deplane though rear doors of a C-97 airplane. Greeters place leis around their necks and hula dancers entertain them as they walk across the ramp to waiting Red Cross buses. One French soldier dances a few steps with the hula dancers, on his way. Their bus pulls away.

Location: Oahu Hawaii USA
Date: 1954, June 29
Duration: 1 min 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675043816
Injured soldiers are taken out of medical aircraft and are loaded into medical vans in Hanoi, French Indochina

Injured soldiers are treated in Hanoi, French Indochina during the Indochina War. Soldiers carry the injured soldiers on stretchers into a medical van. A French medical aircraft stationed. Medical vans on the side of the aircraft. Officers stand in front of the aircraft. Soldiers taken out of the aircraft on stretchers. Several medical aircraft stationed. Men take the injured soldiers out of the aircraft and into the medical vans. A woman with men helps injured soldiers to disembark from the aircraft. The coffin of one of the soldiers kept in a truck.

Location: Hanoi French Indochina
Date: 1947
Duration: 2 min 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675067149
French forces maneuvering in Indochina, under command of General Henri Navarre

French troops in military vehicles moving about the countryside and through towns in Indochina. French High Commissioner and Commander in Chief of Indochina, General Henri Navarre, is seen interacting personally with his officers and troops in the field. General Navarre examines a long strip of aerial photo reconnaissance film.

Location: Indochina
Date: 1953
Duration: 1 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044776
Terrified natives move with their belongings in a damaged town after being liberated by French troops in Indochina.

French troops liberate a town in Indochina during the Indochina War. Freed natives move with their belongings after a bloody 47-day siege. Damaged buildings and ruins. A group of French officers talks. Interiors of damaged buildings and debris. Exterior of a church. The Father of the church and a woman with children stand outside the church.

Location: Indochina
Date: 1947, February 26
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045376
French troops battle Viet Minh insurgents in Indochina

Activities of French soldiers in French Indochina after World War II. A soldier drives a jeep over a bridge spanning a river. The ruins of a town with active fires still burning. Soldiers carrying rifles move though the streets searching for Viet Minh insurgents. A soldier looks through binoculars. Soldiers lying on ground in firing position. Several of the troops are French marine infantry. The soldiers fire. Smoke in the background. A soldier with rifle seated. French artillery being fired into the town. A soldier looks through binoculars from a tank, and with two civilian government officials seated next to him observing the battle.

Location: Indochina
Date: 1946
Duration: 1 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071138
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