French soldiers attack Communist forces in Vietnam, French Indo China. With heavy artillery and napalm bombs, they blast villages in which the Communist rebel forces have entrenched themselves. They fire artillery. Airplanes in flight dropping bombs during "Operation Mercury". Smoke arises due to the firing and bombardment. Some rebel forces surrender to French forces. French soldiers examining wounds of a Communist Vietnamese soldier. Communist prisoners of war seated on the ground. Some prisoners are being handed cigarettes. Women and children refugees and elderly Vietnamese citizens walk towards safe places behind French lines.
French (French Far East Expeditionary Corps) and Vietnamese forces attack the Vietminh in Vietnam, French Indochina. Bombarding and firing on the field. Wrecked and burning vehicles on the field. Soldiers move forward for attack. Soldiers fire rifles. A soldier fires with a machine gun (likely a M2 Browning). Bomber planes dropping bombs over a field. A tank fires at a hill. Smoke arises due to bombarding. Soldiers at a burning village.
Scenes through the fertile countryside of French Indo-China on a trip to Hanoi during World War II. A train arrives at a station. People at the station. Buildings and a market place. Street vendors and rickshaw pullers. Military personnel move out of a building. Lao-Kai ( border station between French Indo-China and China). Soldiers with conical hats. Drums on the ground. A procession passes through the streets.
After five years of captivity of Red Revolutionary Forces (Viet-Minh) hostages return to their homelands from Indo-China during the Indo-China War. French hostages held by Viet-Minh leave Indochina with their belongings. They board a truck. Trucks loaded with the hostages line up on a road. The Red Cross sign at the entrance of a building. People move with their families. French women at a counter of new clothes after imprisonment. Children eat sweets. Two boys eat bread with tea. French hostages including men, women and children.
American flag flutters on bow of an vessel off the French Indo-China coast in Saigon,Vietnam. Distant ships and sampans underway in the harbor of Saigon. A traffic police in center of a busy street circle guides traffic. Men descend stairs of a building. An oriental structure at a road side. Native on an ox-cart passes through an open field.
View of the Saigon harbor as taken onboard from a vessel sailing off the French Indo-China coast. Sailors stand at the bow the vessel. Several ships can be seen at a distance. A sampan passes by the vessel. Distant view of the port of Saigon.
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