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Title card: "Dien Bien Phu - democracy lauds gallant defense" / two shots of military veterans marching under Arc de Triomphe / people in crowd watching / officials approaching Arc / honor guard presenting swords / President Rene Coty laying wreath on Tomb of Unknown Soldier / CU French flag flying / Coty standing at tomb with head bowed / Coty and other officials walking past veterans / Coty shaking hands with veteran / Prime Minister Joseph Laniel standing in front of veterans bowing to them / veterans at ceremony, many holding flags / Eternal Light burning / file footage of fighting at Siege of Dien Bien Phu compiled on V-E Day: silhouettes of French soldiers carrying wounded soldier on stretcher / soldier sitting next to wounded soldier lying on stretcher on ground as medic treats wounded soldier / soldiers carrying wounded soldier on stretcher / wounded soldier sitting on stretcher on ground / soldier laying barbed wire / medic treating wounded soldier / soldiers carrying wounded soldier on stretcher / WS Dien Bien Phu fortifications and plane landing on airstrip / two shots of soldiers stringing barbed wire / plane landing on airstrip / laborers digging / jeep being backed out of plan / soldiers working on generator that has been dropped by parachute / equipment on field / still photo of Commander at Dien Bien Phu French General Christian de Castries / map of fortifications at Dien Bien Phu and Isabelle enclave to south / French soldiers marching across field / two shots of French soldiers running across field / soldier firing machine gun / CU soldier firing rifle / three shots of soldiers firing artillery pieces / soldier throwing away spent shell / two shots of soldiers firing artillery pieces / smoke drifting across field