CH-46A helicopter in flight low over airstrip. CH-46A lands. Several marines with M-16 rifles enter the CH-46A. CH-46A takes off. UH-34D helicopter in flight low over airstrip. Cloud formations in the background. UH-34D in flight, turns, descends and lands. Marines begin to board helicopter. Supplies in the foreground. Close view of pilot of UH-34D. UH-34D turns and takes off. Parked CH-46A in the background. (Vietnam War period).
Jet aircraft in flight. Columns of white smoke rise in the foreground. Bunkers in area. Jet aircraft passes over field. Bomb explodes on ground. Close view of black smoke rising from explosion. Jet aircraft passes over. Another explosion on ground and smoke rises up. Blast on ground in the background. Jet aircraft drop more bombs. More explosions on ground. Clouds of smoke arise from ground. Explosions throwing billows of smoke in air. Marines watch explosions from sandbag bunker. Heavy explosions on ground. (Vietnam War period).
United States Air Force 903rd Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron troops carry a marine or soldier patient onto a C-130 plane during the Vietnam War. A United States soldier cuddles a pet dog in airfield. Soldiers enter the C-130 plane through cargo entrance.
Cargo with attached to olive green parachutes descending into Khe Sanh drop zone during the Vietnam War. Three United States Marines packing a cargo parachute into a bag. "REED" is written on the helmet of one of them. An African American Marines untangle parachute lines and then pack cargo parachute into bag. Marines packing camouflage parachutes. A Marine moves a cargo crate using a rough terrain forklift. A Marine smoking a cigarette helps as the forklift lifts piles crates together.
United States Marines firing mortar round into enemy position outside the Khe Sanh perimeter during Vietnam War. Cargo parachutes airdropped into drop zone. Marines watching drop zone. Marine with helmet labeled “Louis" smokes a cigarette. A Marine digging a foxhole.
United States Marines recovering materiel from a broken airdropped crate in a rice paddy in Khe Sanh during the Vietnam War. Two Marines wade around in ditch adjacent to rice paddy, retrieving mortar rounds and other equipment from broken cargo pallet. Wooden debris from destroyed cargo box are scattered on the ditch. A group of Marines smoking and watching the recovery of material at side of the ditch. African American Marine’s helmet reads “Jock Tall Tan Young + Fine”. Marines put recovered materiel inside a bag. Marines smiling and searching for materiel. Marines recovering parachute cargo bundle from rice paddy mud.