United States Air Force ( USAF ) support for the evacuation of Cambodian refugees from Boung Long, Cambodia to Pleiku AB in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. At Boung Long, Cambodia: Cambodian refugees wait to board an aircraft. They board a C-7A. A pilot at the controls and the control panel. At Pleiku Air Base, Vietnam: The C-7A taxis in. The engine of the aircraft stops. Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) troops and refugees unload the aircraft. The refugees leave the aircraft.
United States Air Force ( USAF) support for the evacuation of Cambodian refugees from Boung Long, Cambodia to Pleiku Air Base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. In Boung Long, Cambodia: A C-7A aircraft lands and taxis. Cambodian refugees board the C-7A. It takes off. Another C-7A lands and taxis. Refugees in the background. A man directs a USAF C-47 Skytrain . The C-47 taxis. Refugees board the C-47 with their belongings. At Pleiku Air Base, Vietnam: Refugees leave the air base. Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) troops load belongings into trucks and the trucks leave the area.
Opening scenes show destroyed and damaged American UH-1 helicopters. A flying buzzard depicted on remains of one. Damage to buildings at American airbases and other installations, including barracks of U.S. servicemen, where a photograph of a girl and other personal items are seen on the ground. Smoke rising and ambulance responding at site of a bombing in Saigon. Injured personnel bleeding, after the Viet Cong detonate a car bomb outside the American Embassy in Saigon, on March 30, 1965. A victim being carried on a stretcher. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. air strikes in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. USAF (United States Air Force) Douglas A-1G Skyraider attack aircraft drop two Mark 82 (Mk.82) high-drag bombs on open flat terrain in support of Operation MacArthur. The bombs explode on the terrain, 30 miles east, to the southwest of Pleiku, on 10 September. Douglas A-1G Skyraider' releases BLU-27 incendigel bombs (like napalm) followed by explosions in grove of trees 55 miles south southwest of Pleiku in support of Operation MacArthur.
Military parade in South Korea features Korean soldiers in formation. A large South Korean flag displayed. Korean troops practice Taekwondo in formation. Taekwondo master breaks concrete blocks with his head. Korean navy ship departing September 25, 1965 to Vietnam. Republic of Korea troops fighting in the jungles of Vietnam.
President Lyndon B. Johnson addresses the United States public at a White House news conference about the Vietnam War on July 28, 1965. “We do not seek the destruction of any government, nor do we covet a foot of any territory. But we insist and we will always insist that the people of South Vietnam shall have the right of choice, the right to shape their own destiny in free elections in the South or throughout all Viet-Nam under international supervision, and they shall not have any government imposed upon them by force and terror so long as we can prevent it… We do not want an expanding struggle with consequences that no one can perceive, nor will we bluster or bully or flaunt our power, but we will not surrender and we will not retreat,” says President Johnson,
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