more at http://news.quickfound.net/intl/vietnam_news.html "Motion Picture Films From G-2 Army Military Intelligence Division... 'General de Lattre de Tassigny and Emperor Bao Dai Visit Nhatrang: General de Lattre de Tassigny and Emperor Bao Dai arrive at Airport. The General and Emperor inspect troops and tank units. LS, yacht at anchor off shore. The General, Emperor and other officials in dining room drinking toast. Activity Off French Indo-China Coast: VS, French naval blockade. VS, soldier traversing anti-aircraft guns, sailor standing on guard, on desk, French sailors inspecting papers and cargo of junks. VS, islands and shoreline as seen from the rear of ship. LS, of native cemetery. MCU, sailor pulling anchor chain. MLS, officers on barge of French patrol boat. MS, of sailor throwing out anchor. MLS, patrol boat lying at anchor. LS, of "SS Pasteur". LSM, pulling toward patrol boat. MLS, sailors on patrol boat watching as they pass the passenger ship "Pasteur". CU, wake of ship. MCU, two sailors seated on the bow of patrol ship. LS, "SS Pasteur" and two native Junks moving away from cameras.' Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied. The film was silent. I have added music created by myself using the Reaper Digital Audio Workstation and the Independence and Proteus VX VST instrument plugins. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bao_Dai Bảo Đại (lit. "keeper of greatness", 22 October 1913 -- 30 July 1997), born Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thụy, was the 13th and final emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty, which was the last dynasty of Vietnam. From 1926 to 1945, he was king of Annam. During this period, Annam was a protectorate within French Indochina, covering the central two-thirds of the present-day Vietnam. Bảo Đại ascended the throne in 1932. The Japanese ousted the Vichy-French administration in March 1945 and then ruled through Bảo Đại. At this time, he renamed his country "Vietnam". He abdicated in August 1945 when Japan surrendered. He was the chief of state of the State of Vietnam (South Vietnam) from 1949 until 1955. Bảo Đại was criticized for being too closely associated with France and spending much of his time outside of Vietnam. Prime Minister Ngô Đình Diệm ousted him in a fraudulent referendum vote in 1955... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_de_Lattre_de_Tassigny Jean Joseph Marie Gabriel de Lattre de Tassigny, GCB, MC (2 February 1889 -- 11 January 1952) was a French military hero of World War II and commander in the First Indochina War... He won three major victories at Vinh Yen, Mao khé and Yen Cu Ha and defended successfully the north of the country against the Viet Minh but his only son, Bernard de Lattre de Tassigny, was killed in action during the war at the Battle for Nam Dinh. In 1951, illness forced de Lattre de Tassigny to return to Paris... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Indochina_War The First Indochina War (generally known as the Indochina War in France, and as the Anti-French Resistance War in contemporary Vietnam) began in French Indochina on 19 December 1946 and lasted until 1 August 1954. Fighting between French forces and their Viet Minh opponents in the South dates from September 1945. The conflict pitted a range of forces, including the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps, led by France and supported by Emperor Bao Dai's Vietnamese National Army against the Viet Minh, led by Ho Chi Minh and Vo Nguyen Giap. Most of the fighting took place in Tonkin in Northern Vietnam, although the conflict engulfed the entire country and also extended into the neighboring French Indochina protectorates of Laos and Cambodia. Following the reoccupation of Indochina by the French following the end of World War II, the area having fallen to the Japanese, the Viet Minh launched a rebellion against the French... While the strategy of pushing the Viet Minh into attacking a well defended base in a remote part of the country at the end of their logistical trail was validated at the Battle of Na San, the lack of construction materials (especially concrete), tanks (because of lack of road access and difficulty in the jungle terrain), and air cover precluded an effective defense, culminating in a decisive French defeat at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu. After the war, the Geneva Conference on July 21, 1954, made a provisional division of Vietnam at the 17th parallel, with control of the north given to the Viet Minh as the Democratic Republic of Vietnam under Ho Chi Minh, and the south becoming the State of Vietnam under Emperor Bao Dai...

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