INDO-CHINA NEWSREEL No. 2

Year Published: 1947

Creator: Department of Defense.

Format: 16mm/video file

Description: National Archives and Records Administration - ARC 44045, LI 242-MID-3985 - INDO-CHINA NEWSREEL No. 2 - DVD Copied by Nick Stoller. Series: Motion Picture Films From G-2 Army Military Intelligence Division, compiled 1918 - ca. 1947. SUMMARY: Visit of General de Lattre de Tassigny and President Tran Van Nuu at Dong-Trieu and Vinh-Yen-- VS, children waving flags. LS, Reconnaissance plane landing. Colonel Sizaire, victor of Mao-Khe, greets and welcomes General de Lattre and President Tran Van Nuu. Group standing at attention saluting and then reviewing troops and equipment. VS, Troops passing review section and standing at attention on the field. Two small cabing planes landing. General and President greet arriving officers. VS, President, General and staff inspect the troops. CU, Faces of the soldiers. General de Lattre, President Tran Van Nuu and staff greet Vietnamese and dignitaries. Official party inspect school children and athletic societies participating in the review. Officials listen and watch children's band. VS, troops and school children passing review area. Military band playing. Interior scene of General de Lattre drinking a toast to S.M. Bao-Dai and to the Vietnamese Governor. VS, LCT type aircraft loaded with troops making its way up the canal and landing the men on the riverbank near the port of Coi-Co at the junction of the Song-Thai-Binh and the Bamboo canal. VS, soldiers leaving LCT, crossing open field and small canal. Truck being ferried across canal. Advance is held up by the Viet-Minh Command post and air support is requested. VS, Soldiers digging in, firing machine guns and mortars. LS, Farm house burning. VS, F-6-F Hellcats and B-26s bombing and strafing enemy position. LS, soldiers in prone positions during the air attack. VS, Wounded men being treated. VS, Soldier searching and removing weapons from a dead comrade. VS, 105mm Howitzers firing. VS, Soldiers advancing and passing burning buildings. VS, 400 prisoners surrounded by parachutists are taken to the Command Post. MLS, Vietnamese sentry standing guard. Wounded men being treated.