Operation Seafloat in the Cua Lon River,Vietnam. Crewmen stand guard on a barge. A bridge spans the river. Rubble of a village seen on the water's edge. Men remove rockets from canisters and time the rocket mechanism. Two crewmen stand on a barge complex. A control fire ship moves past a barge towards the open river. Vietnamese personnel control the boat. A man looks out over the river through binoculars. Sampans approach the barge complex. Vietnamese aboard the sampans along side the barge. South Vietnamese flags on the sampans. People on sampans arrive to tie the sampans to the barge. Vietnamese move on sampans tied to the barge. A security man checks the sampans. He searches a Vietnamese man and distributes pamphlets to the man. Other Vietnamese men seen on the sampan. An RVN (Republic of Vietnam) flag seen flying stick on the boat. A young boy on the sampan. A man wearing a coolie hat starts a small outboard motor on the sampan. Other boats leave the barge. Two men chat on the deck of the barge. PCFs (Patrol Craft Fast or Swift Boat) tied up to the barge in the background with engines running. A group of men stands on the deck area of the barge. American flags on the deck. Landing Craft Mechanized ( LCM-6s) naval crafts tied up in the background. United States Navy and RVN personnel talk on the barge complex.
Operation Seafloat in the Cua Lon River, Vietnam. A mobile base in the river. American and South Vietnamese flags on the mobile base. A large field with the mobile base. A part of ATC seen nearby. Village rubble along the water edge. A guard on duty near the destroyed village. A barge complex (mobile base) in the background. The barge complex in the mid river. A large sampan underway in the river. South Vietnam flags seen on sampans. The sampan is tied to the barge complex. Other boats approach. Vietnamese in sampans alongside the barge. Republic of Vietnam personnel from the barge checks people and sampans. Two women on the sampan tied to the barge. Two men on the barge. Sampans in the background. Two USN (United States Navy) men work on a 50 caliber machine gun on a barge. The sampan pulls away from the side of the barge.
Operation Seafloat in the Cua Lon River,Vietnam. Armed Vietnamese personnel board PCFs (Patrol Craft Fast, also called Swift Boats) along side a barge. A gun mounted aboard a PCF. Men on the PCF. A USN (United States Navy) man in a flak jacket and helmet works inside the cabin of the vessel. A barge personnel on deck works with weapons. Vietnamese soldiers clean and oil M-16 rifles on the PCF. American personnel with M-16 rifles. A U.S. flag seen fluttering in the background. Heavy foliage on the riverbank as seen during a fire fight. Vietnamese soldiers move into heavy brush. An RVN (Republic of Vietnam) personnel moves out of a cabin on the river craft. Armed PCF moves slowly up the river. River craft at bank of the river. Other crafts seen. A part of the bow of the PCF in the river appears to have been shot away. (Vietnam War period).