U.S. Marines land to begin guard duty in Vietnam. 3,500 United States Marines landing at a beach North of Danang, where they will guard an American jet airfield against attack by Vietcong guerrillas. Marines climbing down rope ladder into LST from ship. Marines running onto beach after LST reaches shore. (Vietnam War period).
2nd Battalion (Airborne), 503 Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade (Sep) prepares for a mission. Soldiers use camouflage stick on each other's faces. They wait next to helicopters. Bell UH-1D and Bell UH-1B "Huey" helicopters take off from Bien Hoa Air Force Base, South Vietnam. Ground view of a line of UH-1B helicopters in flight. Point of view shot inside helicopter from just behind the cockpit of a "Huey" shows a number of other helicopters flying ahead. Helicopters fly above green fields. (Vietnam War period).
A South Vietnamese attack on a Red Vietcong stronghold leads to the capture of smuggled weapons south of Saigon, Vietnam. A helicopter lands near South Vietnamese soldiers. A cache of arms. Soldiers near boxes of ammunition. An International Control Commission inspects the captured smuggled weapons. (Vietnam War period).
United States Congressmen including Senator Edward Kennedy visit refugee camps in South Vietnam. Edward Kennedy talking to the South Vietnamese. South Vietnamese refugees and youth gathered to watch the visitors. Banners hang in the air. Native children wave the United States flags. Boxes of supply and aid from the United States. A center at Hoakhanh near Danang Military Base shelters civilians driven away from their homes by Vietcong. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. soldiers at Tan Son Nhut Air Base, Vietnam. A soldier holds up red panties with 'Merry Christmas' written on it. A soldier holds up a box with a small tree on it. Gifts are taken out of an ammunition box. A soldier places a cardboard star on a tree. Another soldier squirts shaving cream on the branches. A chaplain on a make shift altar near a bunker. The soldiers listen to the chaplain. Two soldiers sit near a 50 caliber machine gun. One soldier holds up the box with the Christmas tree on it. The other man holds up the red panties. A soldier leans against sandbags and writes a letter. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. soldiers at Tan Son Nhut Air Base in Saigon, Vietnam. A U.S. sentry walks past a barbed wire fence. A puppy follows him. The sun sets behind tents in the background. The sentry pets the puppy. The puppy is on the sandbags of an emplacement. The sentry walks to his post. He looks out over the barbed wire fence. (Vietnam War period).