Vietcong prisoners interrogated by South Vietnamese intelligence officer Lt Nguyen Khoan and U.S. Adviser, Captain Edward N. Fletcher, of U.S. MAAG (Military Advisory Assistance Group) Team 28. Hand points to map location. Intelligence officers look at the map where one prisoner points. Soldiers bring more Vietcong from bushes. Prisoners and officers look at map, while South Vietnamese Army soldiers maintain armed guard.
Two Vietcong prisoners are marched away, under armed guard, following interrogation by South Vietnemese Intelligence officer, Lieutenant Nguyen Khoan and U.S. Adviser, Captain Edward N. Fletcher, of MAAG (Military Assistance Advisory Group), Team 28. South Vietnamese soldiers apprehend more Vietcong prisoners from bushes and the officers check their papers and speak to them.
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.