UH-46D helicopter comes in over flight deck with supplies as air operations go on aboard USS Constellation (CVA-64) in Tonkin Gulf. The helicopter lowers the supplies and releases. Other supplies on deck. Helicopter appears to back away. Men move in towards supplies over flight deck. UH-46D comes in over flight deck with supplies hanging from slings. Supplies are set down and released. UH-46D over flight deck. Crewman seen with upper part of his body protruding out of forward window. Helicopter rises after release of supplies. UH-46D comes in over deck with large load hanging from sling. Supplies lowered, released and helicopter rises. UH-46D comes in over deck. Supplies on deck released by helicopter. Helicopter rises for departure after releasing supplies. UH-46D releasing supplies on flight deck and flying off; men and forklift move in to remove supplies.
Two Vietnamese youth throw net to in the sea to catch fish. They catch fish and officers of United States 720th military police battalion have a look at the fish.
1st Air Cavalry Dv. of Operation Delaware. CH-47 helicopter flying in with load of supplies and dropping them to the ground. Major General John J Tolsin watching through binoculars and talking to the officer. MG John Tolsin boarding a helicopter and flying off. 24 April 1968.
1st Air Cavalry Dv. of Operation Delaware. General Willaim C. Westmorland discussing closely with some men. Gen. Westmoreland boarding the helicopter and leaving. 26 April 1968.
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.
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