Samuel George Davis Jr and USO Troupe members entertain navy personnel aboard aircraft carrier USS Hancock. Sailors on stage dance with the chorus girls. Banner of USS Hancock on stage in the background.
George Rhodes,orchestra and cast rehearse. George Rhodes assembles musical notes papers on chair. Musicians play trumpets and other instruments. Drummer plays the drums. George Rhodes stands and gives instructions to the musicians. Musical note reads 'rock a bye ending'.
George Rhodes rehearses along with the orchestra and cast. Band member sings while playing guitar. George Rhodes seated next to him. Drummer plays drums. Musicians rehearse with a large mirror in the background.
French soldiers combat Viet-Minh in Indochina. French artillerymen load and fire 105 mm Howitzers. Armed French infantry advance through jungles and pass burning huts.
French troops load and fire 105 mm Howitzers in Indochina. A large number of Viet-Minh prisoners walk with hands on their heads, escorted by armed French soldiers. The prisoners are all stripped to the waist. They carry wounded comrade on litter. Some carrying food supplies, including life pigs, on poles over their shoulders. French soldiers treat wounded comrades. A French B-26 flies overhead.
Scene of a Viet Minh attack on the Bai-Thao outpost in Indochina. View of Improvised French military camp site located 15 km from Sept-Pagodes and 8 km from Bentam. A French radio operator seated at a table alongside his equipment. French troops stand nearby and use binoculars to survey the camp area. A crowd gathered around corpses. Feet of one are tied together. Bullets lie near a corpse on the ground. Fly infested corpses after the attack. A sign post reads 'Bai-Thao'. An ambulance truck makes its way past the sign on a dirt road. French Officers talk with a Vietnamese boy. A French soldier stands near an artillery piece and looks out at a winding river. Vietnamese woman rides in a bicycle rickshaw and a man pulls a hand cart in front of French soldiers in parked Sherman tank. Three soldiers look out of the tank hatches. An officer stands atop the tank.