UH-1B helicopters fly over Saigon. U.S. soldiers in jeeps drive. V-100 armored commando car drives into alley. Soldiers fire rifles from behind cover of concrete wall. Soldiers rush forward to wrecked truck and V-100 in alley. (Vietnam War period).
Mopping up operations after the Tet Offensive, in the Vietnam war. American soldiers on road. Tank on road in the background. Soldiers enter into a house. Soldiers walk through wrecked houses. M-113 APC (Armored Personnel Carrier) stands by. Soldiers search more houses. They leave after checking. Two soldiers, one draped with ammunition belt checks a house. APC outside houses. Soldiers walk into narrow alley. Soldiers leave houses.
Different types of aircraft at Tan Son Nhut Air Base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Most ot them are civilian aircraft. An Airlift International Airways Boeing 727 parked and then taxiing. Pan American Boeing 707 (cargo version) aircraft, Numerous Douglas DC-3s and one civilian Curtiss C-46 Commando transport aircraft parked. A Thai Airways Caravelle jet taxiing. A Douglas DC-6 with "United States of America" painted on its side. A DHC-4 (C-7A) Caribou aircraft crosses the intersection of a road and taxiway. DC-3s and U-1A Otter aircraft taxi past the intersection. Yellow fuel truck and several vehicles holding short, waiting to cross active runway. Vortac transmitter in grass field beside them.
ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam) soldiers at Bien Hoa Air Base in Saigon. Men look through remains of buildings. Destroyed buildings in Bien Hoa. Men in rubble look around. Vietnamese woman walks on destroyed houses. Young Vietnamese girl look at rubble. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. soldiers posted in Saigon Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Opening slate reads: "8 Feb 68, After Action (Saigon/Cholon)." UH-1D helicopters off loading U.S. Army soldiers of 199th Light Infantry Brigade. OH-23 helicopter takes off from Phu Tho Racetrack, (It has been suggested that the Commander, 2nd Bn 40th Arty might be aboard.) Soldiers walk across field along with sentry dogs. A formation of UH-1D Huey helicopters lands in the race track center, raising dust. Next, soldiers are seen walking across the field, carrying their weapons and gear. Closeup of one carrying an M67 recoilless rifle. They step over the racetrack railing and walk to the grandstand building. Change of scene shows U.S. soldiers, stripped to the waist, setting up an m29-81mm-mortar.They pause and look up as another formation of UH-1D Hueys lands in the field. One of the mortar crew turns upright, a wooden box and frame, containing a toilet seat. It sits next to another just like it. Troops stream across the field, as they leave their helicopters.
The Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War. UH-1B helicopter in flight overhead. MPs (Military Police) and the U.S. troops search the area. EOD (Explosive Ordnance Demolition) men remove explosives from bodies of dead Vietcong on U.S. embassy ground in Saigon, Vietnam. MPs bring suspected Vietcong out of building. Trooper searches other areas. A truck pulls up in street. Dead Vietcong in street. Civilians walk about. Soldiers under cover of M-48 tank of the 1st Infantry Division. Soldiers remove bodies of fallen Americans from street as the M-48 moves forward.