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.
Group of A-6A aircrafts in formation taking VIPs out to the USS Enterprise (CVAN-65), in the Gulf of Tonkin for awards presentation by Air Vice Marshall Nguyen Cao Ky, to pilots aboard the ship. Four A-6As in formation. Two A-6As in flight over clouds. A-6As in flight. Four A-6As in formation. Two A-6As in flight in close formation. Four A-6A's in formation. Three A-6A's in formation. Rear view, two A-6As in formation over the water.
Four A-6A aircraft in diamond formation are seen from behind as they escort VIPs to the USS Enterprise. View of nose of Grumman A-6A Intruder as camera is pointed through it canopy to get shots of A-6As in formation.
Several A-6As in formation. Grumman A-6A Intruder aircrafft in flight over the Gulf of Tonkin. Aircraft number 504 is seen at close range. Two A-6As in formation, one banking.
D F Traeger, SN sitting at desk in personnel office of U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN-65), removing and replacing some paper from personnel records. Traeger inserts some papers into typewriter. Face of Traeger. Man types entries into personnel record. Traeger after completing one personnel record begins on another. He opens it up, removes some papers. Two stacks of personnel records at right side of desk. Paperwork is inserted into typewriter for entry. Traeger inserting some paper from personnel records into typewriter. Small entry is made on paper. Looking down over the top of typewriter. Entries are made on personnel record sheet. Typing on typewriter and made entries on personnel record sheet.