Commanding Officer seated in his chair on bridge. A-3B Aircraft lands aboard USS Midway. Men work on plotting boards in CIC. Helmsman turns the wheel. Captain J M O'Brien seated in chair receives a message of strike.
Operations aboard USS Essex (CVA-9) during the Lebanon crisis, in 1958. View beneath wing of an aircraft on catapult, as the catapult crew hooks bridle to aircraft. Officer leaves the ship's message center. Hatchway leads into message center. Two junior officers in the communication center. Teletype machines printing out messages aboard ship. Views beneath wing of jet as one of the catapult crew hooks it up to the catapult.
Vietnamese girl carries a candle stand. Woman wearing a head scarf sieves some material in a utensil while a dog passes by. In the background clothes seen hanging on a wire. A man carries two containers hanging on either side of a stick. Man wearing conical hat looks up in the sky. A boy tries to kill a snake with a stick.
French Union Forces thrust armored spearhead through communist controlled territory during Operation Camargue. A score of Viet Minh Forces crushed. Jeeps carry soldiers. French soldiers advance in Indochina. Soldiers fire guns.
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.
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