French soldier fires rifle through bars of window in a building. French troops enter destroyed and burning Vietnamese village. They set fire to thatched roofs of huts. A French soldier walks through rubble past body of a Vietnamese. French soldier herds several Vietnamese prisoners from a building. One prisoner has cuts and burns on his face. French soldiers talk with a small Vietnamese boy. A Vietnamese woman and small boy help and aged woman away from scenes of battle. They fearfully bow in obeisance to the cinematographer as they walk past. French soldiers in a jeep pass burning thatched huts. French troops set up a machine gun and kill a Vietnamese who rolls out from shrubs in front of a hut. A French gunner on a tank. Entire village ablaze being consumed by flames.
In the morining, Ho Chi Minh rises and Ho Chi Minh comes down a wooden ladder, from upper floor of rustic shelter. he puts on shoes and joins his soldiers in morning exercise and a game of volleyball. He reads documents in his jungle office and types correspondence. A bamboo fencing with trees in the background. A pigeon on the ground. (Timeframe is near end of French Indochina War.)
Bad Weather conditions due to monsoon rains. Maintenance work goes on at Tuy Hoa Air Base despite bad weather. Maintenance building surrounded by water near ramp. A man rides a bicycle through standing water around brick factory. Concertina barbed wire fence at the edge. A woman wearing a conical hat wades in water across the barbed wires. A camouflaged C-130 E plane takes off during inclement weather. Maintenance men work on a small bomb carrier hooked up to warehouse tractor as it rains. A saddle panel secured on F-100 D in a revetment. Water runs near a ramp, it runs under a sand drift fence. A camouflaged C-130 E plane taxis along the runway at the Air Base.
Aerial view of fields from aircraft in flight. Napalm burst on a building shows flames from explosion.
UH-1B in flight over city, attacking buildings. Smoke rises up from fire on ground. Column of black smoke rises from local area. UH-1B hovers over houses. Civilians gathered in houses watch helicopter overhead. UH-1B passes through smoke in sky. UH-1B hovers over city.
Views from tail camera of a USAF A-1E aircraft strafing enemy targets at low altitude amidst groves of coconut trees. White smoke rising from the ground, behind the aircraft. The A-1E is flying at tree-top level. Simple structures are seen, occasionally, amongst the trees. Exploding White phosphorus bombs and fires erupting from napalm, seen in the wake of the aircraft. More huts seen as the aircraft exits the coconut plantation and passes over a river bank. Fires burning in the background. The A-1E climbs out over the river. (Note: The A1E aircraft on this mission is believed to be from the 1st Air Commando Squadron, operating out of Bien Hoa Air Base.)