United States and South Vietnamese soldiers defend Kontum during the Nguyen Hue Campaign of the Vietnam War. U.S. and South Vietnamese soldiers in a helicopter in flight. A soldiers talks over the radio receiver. Another mans a machine gun. Aerial view of the area below. The pilot in the cockpit. Black smoke rising from enemy rocket explosion in residential area near the Kontum airfield. U.S. FSB (Fire Support Base) November, with enemy artillery rounds exploding in rice paddies near the base. The machine gun barrel and ammunition belt. A South Vietnamese soldier alongside a U.S. gunner firing M-16 rifle towards the ground. Explosions in enemy positions. A South Vietnamese officer questions Montagnard refugees on a road. U.S. soldiers stand by and watch.
United States and South Vietnamese soldiers defend Kontum during the Nguyen Hue Campaign of the Vietnam War. A South Vietnamese officer questions Montagnard refugees on a road. U.S. soldiers watch as he talks to the refugee man and woman with a child. American and South Vietnamese officers inspect a captured North Vietnamese map. The map spread on the bonnet of a military vehicle. A photograph of a Vietnamese woman near the map.
Views from a helicopter manned by a South Vietnamese crew. Smoke is rising from strikes against Viet Cong targets below. U.S. Lieutenant Colonel Thomas L. Stanford, advisor to the 2nd ARVN (Army of Vietnam) Ranger Group, in the Kontum area, is seen in the helicopter along with his Vietnamese counterpart. (This is during the "Vietnamization" phase of the Vietnam War.) Stanford is the red-headed U.S. officer wearing glasses. He and his Vietnamese counterpart are observing air strikes they requested on enemy positions. The explosions and black smoke are from the bombs being dropped. A vietnamese gunner aboard the helicopter fires a machine gun at ground target. A U.S. Army Bell UH-1D Iroquois or 'Huey' helicopter takes off from a paved road.
MACV (US Military Assistance Command, Vietnam) Advisory Team assists South Vietnamese soldiers in the evacuation of refugees from Kontum during the Nguyen Hue Campaign of the Vietnam War. Local Vietnamese in coolie hats near bicycles on a road. Soldiers on a tank as it moves along on a road. Billowing smoke on ridge from USAF Boeing B-52 Stratofortress air strikes. South Vietnamese soldiers, U.S. M-60 tanks and a U.S. Army Bell UH-1D Iroquois helicopter nearby. South Vietnamese positions around a helipad. Aerial view of the area. Smoke on ridge. Bomb craters and terrain damage in jungle foliage on the ridge. Officers observing bomb damage through open door of the helicopter. An American officer speaking into the radio headset. The pilot at controls in the cockpit.
MACV (US Military Assistance Command, Vietnam) Advisory Team assists South Vietnamese soldiers in the evacuation of refugees from Kontum during the Nguyen Hue Campaign of the Vietnam War. Aerial view of the Kontum airfield. A burning aircraft on the ground. South Vietnamese ammunition trucks caught in NVA (North Vietnamese Army) ambush. Smoking and exploding ordinance. Vietnamese defensive positions in Kontum City and in the surrounding terrain. A U.S. Colonel talking on the radio during an inspection flight in a U.S. Army UH-1D Iroquois or 'Huey' helicopter. Billowing smoke on Highway QL 14. A U.S. Army Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter landing at a helipad in the area. MACV (US Military Assistance Command, Vietnam) Advisory Team assists in the evacuation of refugees from Kontum. The team loads supplies into the helicopter. South Vietnamese refugees waiting to board helicopter for evacuation. A Vietnamese soldier talks to the refugees.
MACV (US Military Assistance Command, Vietnam) Advisory Team assists South Vietnamese soldiers in the evacuation of refugees from Kontum during the Nguyen Hue Campaign of the Vietnam War. A U.S. Army Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter takes off from a helipad in the area. South Vietnamese soldiers talk to Vietnamese refugees. Refugee men, women and children await evacuation. Women and children run towards a CH-47 and board the helicopter. The chopper takes off. Guns positioned on the other side of a barb wired fence. Refugees wait their turn for evacuation. U.S. officers and soldiers supervise and discuss the operation nearby. Refugees board a U.S. Army Bell UH-1D Iroquois helicopter. The MACV team and U.S. soldiers help them get strapped in. The pilot in the cockpit. The chopper takes off.
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