Activities of the American 1st Cavalry Division in Chu Lai, South Vietnam. The United States Army UH-1D Iroquois helicopter being signaled to land in the rice paddy. Soldiers rush towards the helicopter and unload mermite food container mail and other supplies from the helicopter. The helicopter takes off. Soldiers carry off the supplies. Mail being distributed to the soldiers. (Vietnam War period).
Activities of the American 1st Cavalry Division in Chu Lai, South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. M113 Armored Personnel carriers (APCs) with soldiers atop in rice paddy. They move out on the rice paddy. M113s cross the paddies and approach a tree line. Smoke arises on the field.
U.S. President Richard Nixon and South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu on Midway Island during the Vietnam War. President Nixon standing with an officer on an airfield. A Pan American aircraft taxiing on the airfield. The aircraft taxiing into a parking area. A crowd gathered on the airfield. President Nixon and naval officer walking towards the ramp of the aircraft. A group of station officers in white uniforms beside the aircraft. President of South Vietnam Nguyen Van Thieu and other officials debarking from the aircraft. President Nixon greeting the officials at the base of the ramp. People taking pictures of the event. President Nixon and President Thieu with the officials walking away from the aircraft. President Nixon introduces American officials to President Thieu. President Thieu shakes hands with the officials. The Presidents talking. The officials standing beside them. Both the Presidents get on to a speaker's stand to receive honors. The Presidents standing at attention on the stand. Honor guards coming to present arms. U.S. Navy Ceremonial Guards present arms. A band master directing a U.S. Marine Corps band. The station officers saluting. President Nixon and President Thieu leave the stand to inspect the honor guards. The Presidents with a U.S. Marine Corps officer inspecting the honor guards.
U.S. Mobile Strike Forces in Pleiku, Vietnam during the Vietnam War. U.S. soldiers with the aid of a forklift load PIR (Project Indigenous Rations) into a truck. A U.S. Army UH-1D Iroquois helicopter lands on a field. Montagnard soldiers carry off boxes of rations. U.S. soldier looks at a map in a jungle. A Montagnard soldier heats up a canteen cup with rations over an open fire.
U.S. Mobile Strike Forces in Pleiku, Vietnam during the Vietnam War. A U.S. soldier prepares to detonate rockets that have been jettisoned by U.S. aircraft. Montagnard soldiers look on. U.S. soldiers wait in brush with Montagnard soldiers.
Montagnard soldiers in Pleiku, Vietnam during the Vietnam War. A Montagnard soldier blows up an air mattress. A Montagnard soldier digs a foxhole. Soldiers heat rations over an open fire. One soldier pounds a rations canteen cup with the handle of a shovel. The soldiers eat rations.