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.
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.
Flight deck gas crewman pulls gas hose on board United States Navy ship Bon Homme Richard in Gulf of Tonkin. He gases one of the aircrafts. Midshipman 1st class Robert S. Schreiber under the guidance of Lollyd E. Webber observes refueling operation. The two of them chat as gas crewman gases a fuel tank under the wing of an aircraft. Schreiber being instructed on gas fuel pumps by Lollyd. Midshipman and Lollyd under A-4E aircraft as it gets refueled.
Midshipman William J. Kane being instructed about duties of signalmen by Harold Albritton,a signalmen on board a United States Navy ship Bon Homme Richard. Kane looks on as signalmen puts a cover on signal light. Two signalmen take out signal flags from a bag and the hoist being hauled down. Signal man instructs Kane on use of a long glass. A Pilot Landing Aid Television System (PLAT) shows A-4E aircraft taking off on board Bon Home Richard.