The Anderson Platoon

The Anderson Platoon French La Section Anderson , released in 1966 in Europe, 1967 in the US is a documentary feature by Pierre Schoendoerffer about the Vietnam War, named after the leader of the platoon Lieutenant Joseph B. Anderson with which Schoendeorffer was embedded. Two decades later, a sequel was released as Reminiscence.

Back in May 1954, Schoendoerffer was covering the First Indochina War for the French armys cinematographic service SCA. At the siege of Dien Bien Phu, he filmed the battle between the French Union forces and the Viet Minh, but his reels were captured when he surrendered to the enemy.After the departure of the French forces from Vietnam in 1956, the U.S. Army replaced it several years later and fighting soon flared again, at the beginning of the Vietnam War. ........

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