U.S. troops lay prone on ground next to runway with M-16 rifles during attack of Tan Son Nhut Air Base, Vietnam. One soldier crouches behind soldiers lying on ground. Troops wait for an attack. Soldier takes aim. Tank moves fast at Tan Son Nhut, kicking up dust. Open field, smoke rises from the distant background. C-123 aircraft in flight overhead. Air Force personnel with M-16 rifles pass on runway. Bodies of dead Vietcong along the edge of runway. B-40 rocket on ground. Troops around trucks and trailers. A1-H aircraft bombing enemy. Clouds of smoke rise in the far background from bomb hit. Smoke rises from building in the background. UH-46D helicopter flies by in the background with supplies hanging from sling. Fireball rises up from explosions. (Vietnam War period).
Dead Vietcong lay on ground on outskirts of Tan Son Entrance Air Force Base. U.S. personnel in the background. U.S. personnel check out area following attack. ARVN personnel look over captured Vietcong ammo. B-40 rocket and grenade lay in grass. Dead Vietcong lay in tall grass, another in foreground. U.S. and ARVN personnel talk and look over dead Vietcong. CH-37 helicopter approaches for landing, kicking up much dust. American trooper takes pictures of dead Vietcong. Man examines dead Vietcong. Ammunition and grenades removed from body. Pile of B-40 rockets and grenades accumulated by U.S. forces in field near dead Vietcong lying in grass. (Vietnam War period).
Tet Offensive scenes from the Vietnam War. V-100 armored commando car moves followed by U.S. soldiers. It enters into a narrow street., where it stops and U.S. soldiers pause by a wrecked 2 and a half ton truck. Fallen American soldiers on the ground. Smoke rises up from fire in the background. Dead and wounded are pulled out from the truck. Wounded are given first aid, placed on litters and carried to ambulance. M-113 APC (Armored Personnel Carrier) is seen.
Tet offensive attack by Viet Cong, during Vietnam War. Hole blown in wall of U.S. Embassy compound in Saigon. B-40 rocket and other explosives removed from dead Vietcong. EOD (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) men remove explosives from bodies of dead on U.S. embassy grounds in Saigon.Troopers walk on embassy grounds. Vietnamese man and woman at gates. Dead body of Vietcong on embassy grounds. The building damaged. General Westmoreland talks with slightly injured personnel on the scene.
U.S. soldiers around two jeeps and a truck alongside road. Soldiers pull out a jeep from a street. V-100 armored commando car backs out from a narrow alley. Soldiers and MP fire rifles and machine guns in alley. Soldiers duck and run away from truck which blocks the alley. V-100 approaches. Soldiers follow behind V-100 as it drives slowly into alley. Soldiers fire at building. Soldier under cover of tree rapid fires his M-16 rifle. Soldiers pull a wounded MP (Military Police) from alley. Medic treats wounded as V-100 drives past in the background. (Vietnam War period).
25th Infantry Division M-133 Armored Personnel Carrier enters cemetery. 1st Infantry Division soldiers search cemetery. Soldier in front of memorial with French writing. He checks for hidden openings. Soldier in armored vehicle speaks over headset. Various soldiers as they search. Stone mausoleums examined. Soldiers examine hedges. (Vietnam War period).