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Peaceful scenic views of flowers, mountains, rivers, sail boats,and a home, in Vietnam
First in a series of clips from a film about the life of Ho Chi Minh. Bucolic scenes of Viet-nam (Vietnam). Water lily flowers on water bed. Box with Chinese character inscription on it. An alter in a family hut. Rocks on hillside. Flotilla of sailboats. Mountainous terrain. A family home with banana trees in foreground.
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.
American Undersecretary of War speaks to difficulties facing Allies in confronting Germany and Japan in World War II
Undersecretary of War, Robert Porter Patterson, Sr. speaks about a report from the General staff outlining the needs for combating Germany and Japan in World War 2. He cites Operation Husky, the invasion of Sicily, as an example of what will be needed. He continues to narrate in the background as an animated map appears showing the buildup of supplies and Allied forces in North Africa; Allied air forces flying 60 thousand sorties over Sicily and, the direct amphibious assault using 3,200 vessels. Map also depicts opposing forces of 12 (“unwilling”) Italian Divisions and 3-1/2 German Divisions. View of Allied troops carrying some of their 31 thousand casualties on stretchers from field ambulances. Allied medics attending to the wounded. Some are seen lying on stretchers in a row on the ground near a wall. Interior of a field hospital where surgeons and other medical personnel treat the wounded. Animated map shifts to Europe with Germany at its center, showing , in contrast to Sicily that was only an “outpost,”, the heavily fortified perimeter of Axis controlled areas; the axis industrial might; and the disposition of 300 German Divisions (mostly on the Eastern front) defending the region. Next, the map illustrates Japan’s defended regions in the Pacific Image returns to Undersecretary Patterson i n his office, speaking of the Allied offensives planned for next year (1944), and emphasizing their challenge and difficulty. Scene shifts to General Jonathan Wainwright and his garrison at Corregidor, in the Philippines, surrendering to Japanese forces in 1941. Japanese military camera pans over the Americans being taken prisoner. Other Americans and Filipinos are seen being marched together under guard. Scene shifts to classic views of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941. View of Japanese soldiers executing two Chinese civilians in 1937. Dangling bodies of persons hung by Nazis during Operation Barbarossa in Russia, in 1941 A Russian soldier comforts a little girl as he escorts her across a snowy landscape. Time bomb left by German forces retreating from Naples, Italy, in 1943, blows up a Post office building . Views of damage to building and bodies of victims. American Military Police assisting a victim. American soldiers carrying an injured civilian on a litter. Scene shifts to British Foreign Minister, Anthony Eden, Soviet Foreign Minister, Vyacheslav Molotov, and U.S. Secretary of State, Cordell Hull, entering a hall in the Spiridonovka Palace, during the 1943 Moscow Conference in Russia. Close-up of the American, Soviet, and British flags on a table. View of many delegates seated around the table. Close-up of Molotov, Eden, and Hull signing conference document.
Destruction from Allied bombing at Lae airfield, New Guinea. B-25s fly bombing missions against Japanese targets in Wewak area.
Opening slate gives date as September 20, 1943. Scenes show devastation wrought by Allied bombing of the Japanese airfield at Lae, New Guinea. Most views are from the ground, as Allies occupy the field. Numerous Japanese aircraft are destroyed along with all the buildings and facilities. Next, is shown the view from inside a B-25 bomber, on September 27, 1943, as it flies in a 100 aircraft bombing mission to attack coastal facilities, ships, and airfields in the Wewak area, including the main air base at Wewak and its satellite fields at Boram, Dagua and But. Several B-25s are seen ahead in formation. View of the coastal area below as the camera plane (B-25) comes under fire by Japanese anti-aircraft guns. A pall of smoke hangs over the Wewak area from bombing by B-24s earlier. view from cockpit as the B-25 makes very low strafing and bombing attack against the Japanese satellite airbase at Boram. Another B-25 seen as it flies close to the ground. View to the rear shows small parachutes being released by the B-25, carrying single 100-lb fragmentation bombs and 23-pounders in clusters of three. The fragmentation bombs explode amongst palm trees sheltering Japanese aircraft. view out the back of the camera B-25 shows it continuing to fly, just over the tree tops, at very low altitude. Next, several B-25s are seen rejoined up in formation, ahead. Scene shifts to view from high altitude of bombs striking in the Wewak waterfront area. View from below of three B-25s in formation. Then view from cockpit of a B-25 flying low over the water strafing a ship. (Narrator says they dive low to skip-bomb a ship trying to escape.) Various views of the high hills at the waterfront. View from B-25 strafing Japanese aircraft on the ground at Dagua and Boram airfields. several B-25s in formation headed home. (World War II period).
Italian Co-Belligerent Army. Truck loaded with Italian soldiers and barracks bags driven to town in Italy.
Troops of Italian Co-Belligerent Army. The Italian First Motorized Group, the first Italian unit to fight alongside the Allies after the armistice of September, 1943, moves to the front in early December, 1943. Italian soldiers stand on roadway. They look at maps and talk. Two soldiers with dog. Italian officer speaks to the soldiers. Soldiers listen to officer, holding pen and papers. Soldiers unroll telephone wires. Soldiers load barracks bags on truck. Truck loaded with soldiers drives past. Men wave the soldiers. A convoy of trucks moves along road. Civilians with carts move in opposite direction. Trucks parked in Italian town. A soldier waves the flag. Soldiers talk with civilians. Soldiers stand on sidewalk. Trucks cross bridge. (World War II period).
Trucks loaded with Italian soldiers of the Co-Belligerent Army pass signs in Italy.
Soldiers of the Italian Co-Belligerent Army. The Italian First Motorized Group, the first Italian unit to fight alongside the Allies after the armistice of September, 1943, move to the front in early December, 1943. Trucks loaded with soldiers driven. A convoy of trucks and jeeps moves along road. Soldiers seated in trucks with guns. Trucks pass signs of nearby towns: 'Venafro-Mignano' and 'Pietravairano'. (World War II period).
