INDO-CHINA NEWSREEL #2,372- 2,370 Part 1

Description

SUMMARY: Hanoi: Light and medium tanks (M-24 and M-4) firing near Dong-Trieu in the course of the Mao-Khe battle. MS, Machine gun firing. AV, Dong-Trieu mountains. Light and medium tanks moving toward the objective. Light tank lying on its side after slipping off the road. Tanks hauling disabled tanks out of mud holes. VS, local religious manifestation in which the people are seen walking along the streets enter a temple and coming out with branches.VS, tanks and armored cars moving across field and streams and through mud as the nature of terrain difficulties found in the movement of armor. VS, tanks moving toward objective in the course of the Mao-Khe battle, several are bogged down and require aid in getting free. Raids by enemy elements in the Thai country necessitated the parachuting of men, arms and munitions in that region of the Haute-Tonkin. Short AVs, parachutes floating to earth (several are already on the ground). AV, village of Haute- Tonkin. Soldiers searching prisoners and checking refugees entering lines. VS, tanks moving across rice fields of Dong- Trieu. Column of soldiers walking along road. Two soldiers looking at bullet holes in building. AVs, Soldiers and reconnaissance planes lined up on field.

Collection

National Archives Collection of Foreign Records Seized

Series

Motion Picture Films From G-2 Army Military Intelligence Division