U.S. 60th Infantry Regiment, 5th Battalion in Rach Kien, Vietnam during the Vietnam War. United States Army UH-1H Iroquois helicopters in flight. The helicopters land. A soldier mans a gun in a helicopter. Soldiers get off the UH-1H Iroquois helicopters. The helicopters take off and fly away. The soldiers walk past a military jeep towards a camp area.
United States Vice President Richard Nixon arrives at the Dinh Gia Long Palace (now known as the Ho Chi Minh City Museum 65 Lý Tự Trọng, Bến Nghé, Quận 1, Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh 70000, Vietnam) in Saigon, Vietnam. Flags of the United States and Vietnam fly atop the palace. Soldiers dressed in white stand for an honor guard. Vice President Nixon, American Ambassador to Indochina (Cambodia, Laos and South Vietnam) Donald R. Heath, along with other officials from Vietnam enter the palace where they have a meeting. After the meeting they come out of the palace.
View through cockpit window as United States Army 12th Air Commando aircraft (Fairchild C-123 Provider) together in formation flight, over "The Trace", a ten-mile strip of land that lies between Con Thien and Gia Linh, Vietnam as part of Operation Ranch Hand during the Vietnam War. A Fairchild C-123 Provider descends to prepare to spray defoliant agent over Vietnam. View of pilot wearing hard helmet taken from behind the cockpit. View of “The Trace” (between Con Thien and Gia Linh) from the cockpit of the Fairchild C-123 Provider.
Montagnard soldiers attend a Vietnamese flag raising ceremony in Bu Gia, Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Montagnard troops in formation salute as the Vietnamese flag is being raised. The formation breaks up and the soldiers march off. A Montagnard soldier raises the Vietnamese flag.
Different huts which house U.S. 5th Special Forces Detachment Operations, Intelligence and Communications in Bu Gia, Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Montagnard soldiers dig an ammunition bunker. Completed ammunition bunker with bamboo spikes and barbed wire around it.
A U.S. Special Forces ordnance demolition expert conducts a class on M-26 grenade launchers for Montagnard trainees in Bu Gia, Vietnam during Operation Switchback of the Vietnam War. SP/4 (Specialist 4th Class) Thomas Coppinger conducts a class for Montagnard trainees through two Vietnamese interpreters. Rifle grenades exploding on an impact area. The two interpreters fire M-26 rifle grenades. Explosions on the impact area.