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United States Army advisors train South Vietnamese, combat and capture Vietcong before Vietnam War.

South Vietnamese soldiers board an armored rail car in a train in 1960 before the Vietnam War. Close view of steam locomotive wheels and piston as it starts up. A silhouette of a soldier with gun on board a train with tracks in the foreground. An explosion on train tracks ahead. A gun firing from a gun turret. A machine gun firing from a slit. Soldiers running up a hill and field. They shoot with guns in the smoke-covered battlefield. Explosion in the field. South Vietnamese soldiers evacuate wounded and carry equipment out of battle. United States officials disembark from United States aircraft. A United States official, possibly retired General Maxwell Taylor, is interviewed by the media. United States and South Vietnamese soldiers inspect a cutaway of an airplane engine and propeller during training. A United States Air Force instructor shows an aircraft model to South Vietnamese pilots. United States and South Vietnamese pilots shake hands. South Vietnamese pilot sits in fighter plane cockpit. The cockpit canopy closes. A United States Army specialist speaks to South Vietnamese soldiers in Vietnamese during weapons training. United States military adviser talks to some soldiers, pointing to a map. Soldiers carrying ammo boxes and weapons, and wearing foliage for camouflage. An African American soldier holding a 60mm M2 mortar. Soldiers shoot guns, including M1919 Browning machine gun, as Vietcong soldiers run away. Camouflaged U.S. and South Vietnamese soldiers running towards jungle. A U.S. soldier points as a young Vietcong soldier emerges from brush. Captured Vietcong prisoners sit on the ground and are led away. United States medical specialists treat Vietnamese civilians in village. An army doctor uses a stethoscope on a woman’s chest.

Date: 1960
Duration: 3 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675080607
American advisory role broadens as South Vietnamese casualties grow in Vietnam War

Aerial view of many helicopters parked on rain soaked ground at an air base in South Vietnam. American army officers (military advisers to South Vietnam) hold conversations while standing near a UH-1 Huey helicopter. Next, a group of ARVN (Army of Republic of Vietnam) troops boarding a U.S. Piasecki-H21 helicopter and a Sikorsky H-34. Armed ARVN troops are seated inside, on the floor of a helicopter. Aerial view from above, of UH-1 choppers flying low across the terrain near a coastline. View from helicopter flyiing low along a river. Closeup of a Piasecki-H21 flying past the camera. South Vietnamese soldier looking out the window of a chopper. ARVN exit a hovering helicopter into shallow water and slog towards their objective. View of jungle from helicopter in flight. U.S. officers confer as a wounded American adviser is carried, on a stretcher, from the jungle to a waiting UH-1 helicopter, for evacuation. He is placed in the medivac chopper next to a wounded ARVN soldier. Closeup of Two South Vietnamese navy officers standing on a boat. One points to a South Vietnamese river gunboat firing at the opposite shore. Gun are seen firing from another gunboat. ARVN troops charge the shore in an amphibious training exercise. They enter sandy areas and employ shrubbery as camouflage. View over shoulder of one firing his rifle. Views of ARVN troops firing weapons as they advance in jungles and firing a mortar. Closeup of a wounded South Vietnamese soldiers being tendedon a stretchers . Vietnamese women and girls dressed in ao dai waiting anxiously. A soldier burning incense and praying for a fallen comrade.

Date: 1963
Duration: 2 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071037
Armistice signing ceremony ending Korean war, 1960s Seoul South Korea street scenes

The armistice ending the Korean War is signed July 27, 1953. South Korean refugees walking down train tracks at the end of the Korean War. Heavily damaged buildings in Seoul, South Korea. Residents of Seoul picking through trash looking for food. 1960s a bulldozer is seen in front of a new high rise building in Seoul. Construction supplies carried by laborers to construction site from water. Pedestrians on Seoul street wearing traditional Hanbok robes. Market place in Seoul, picking crabs at market stall. Women with Korean children. Korean children in front of temple. Children eating on street with balloons nearby. Korean children playing volleyball. Korean children in school uniforms. Korean women looking in store front in Seoul. Streets in Seoul show bicycles and carts overloaded with supplies.

Date: 1969
Duration: 2 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078897
President Lyndon B Johnson talks about Vietnam in his address at the John Hopkins University in Baltimore.

President Lyndon B Johnson gives a speech at the John Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD 21218, United States) in Baltimore. He talks about U.S. relations with South Vietnam, peace talks and proposes an aid program. He offers to hold diplomatic discussions to end the war in Vietnam. He states the need for an independent South Vietnam. “Such peace demands an independent South Viet-Nam—securely guaranteed and able to shape its own relationships to all others—free from outside interference—tied to no alliance—a military base for no other country.” President Johnson said. The President calls upon South East Asia nations for a co-operative economic drive, and asks the United Nations and nations like the Soviet Union to join in. “For our part I will ask the Congress to join in a billion-dollar American investment in this effort as soon as it is underway. And I would hope that all other industrialized countries, including the Soviet Union, will join in this effort to replace despair with hope, and terror with progress.” President Johnson said. Men working with heavy machinery in a South East Asian industrial plant. View of working men constructing a modern bridge in Vietnam. Vietnamese farmer threshing harvested rice. A doctor examines a Vietnamese man. The crowd applauds the President's speech. Views of Vietnamese people working on farms, in technical and scientific laboratories, and industrialization in Vietnam. A European or American professor teaches a Vietnamese student inside a laboratory. Vietnamese women working inside a textile factory. Vietnamese farmers carrying produce. President Johnson quotes from the book of Deuteronomy in the Bible. “We may well be living in the time foretold many years ago when it was said: “I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live.” Well, we will choose life. In so doing we will prevail over the enemies within man, and over the natural enemies of all mankind.” President Johnson concludes his speech.

Date: 1965, April 7
Duration: 3 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031140
South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Khanh and United States Ambassador Lodge unveils a plaque to the memory of President John F. Kennedy in Saigon

Dedication of the "John F. Kennedy Square" in Saigon, South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. South Vietnamese soldiers standing at attention at the side of the Notre Dame Cathedral of Saigon (01 Công xã Paris, Bến Nghé, Quận 1, Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, Vietnam). United States Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, and the South Vietnamese Prime Minister, Maj. Gen. Nguyen Khanh, inspect South Vietnamese troops. A military band plays music. View of the square in front of the Notre Dame Cathedral of Saigon. Th Saigon Central Post Office (2 Công xã Paris, Bến Nghé, Quận 1, Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh 70000, Vietnam) is seen nearby. The square in front of Saigon's Roman Catholic Notre Dame Cathedral is renamed President John F. Kennedy Square, in honor of the late United States President John F. Kennedy. Vietnamese and White civilians witness the ceremony from across a street. ). Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge reads a speech behind a podium. Prime Minister Nguyen Khanh listens to the United States Ambassador’s speech. United States military officials in attendance. Ambassador Lodge and Prime Minister Nguyen Khanh jointly unveils a plaque to the memory of President John F. Kennedy. Plaque reads “Cong Truong Tong Thong John F. Kennedy”. Photographers take photos of the unveiling event. South Vietnamese soldiers standing at attention as a staff car drives away. Statue of the Virgin Mary in the square.

Date: 1964, May 30
Duration: 1 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079864
Republic of Vietnam and U.S. efforts to gain support of civilians and train Irregular Defense forces

Busy and crowded Vietnamese market at a riverbank. Republic of Vietnam soldiers move amid a wooded area and engage enemy forces. They escort several captured Viet Cong prisoners. South Vietnamese Political leader addressing people from stage shared with many U.S. Officers and Vietnamese elders. Group of South Vietnamese children walking through a village, carrying very small Republic of Vietnam flags. A jeep containing South Vietnamese soldiers drives under a sign reading: "TRAI TRANG-SUP, III Corp CIDG Training Center.", at base of Civilian Irregular Defense Group. U.S. Advisor seen with South Vietnamese soldier, at firing range where Vietnamese Irregular Defense Forces are firing M-16 rifles. Scenes of rural village life in Vietnam and South Vietnamese security personnel checking people's identifications. (Vietnam War period).

Date: 1965
Duration: 1 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054819