The U.S. 1st Cavalry Division prior to the Siege of Plei Me in Plei Me, Vietnam. A sign reads '228th Assault Support Helicopter Battalion Hq'. Aerial view of a Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter in flight over a landscape and some houses. A soldier at the door of a helicopter with M-60 Machine Gun ready. A helicopter in flight over a mountainous terrain. Soldiers walk along the road past helicopters. UH-1D Iroquois helicopter with rotors turning in field. A few soldiers walk by. An aerial view of a field. A cluster of houses circled by trees. (Vietnam War period).
Elements of three U.S. Marine Battalions land at Chu Lai in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Seabees Command Post on a beach. Jeeps and soldiers on a beach. Soldiers near a tent. M-48 tank being driven off causeway. M5O Ontos a light armored tracked anti-tank vehicle on a beach. A soldier debarks from the tank and runs on sand. Ships off shore.
Elements of three U.S. Marine Battalions land at Chu Lai in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Landing Vehicle Tracked Personnel Mark 5 (LVTP5s) move onto beach. M-48 tank comes off a Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel (LCVP) in deep water. A marine wades ashore.
Elements of three U.S. Marine Battalions land at Chu Lai in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Vietnamese girl puts floral wreath on a marine. Viet girls walks on a beach. Signs on a beach read 'Down With Red Chinese Belligerents' ,'Long Live VN -US Friendship','Welcome U.S. Marines Corps'. A crane bogged down in water in front of a Landing Craft Utility (LCU). Marine walks near the shoreline
A conference between American Naval advisors and Vietnamese Naval officers on the Junk building program in Saigon, South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. A Vietnamese officer putting pictures on a board inside a conference hall in a building. U.S. Navy Senior Shipyard Advisor Commander Anthony W. Dusesek with another American Naval advisor and three Vietnamese Naval officers seated around a table and looking at blueprints of junks. Various views of the men discussing seated at the table. Commander Anthony Dusesek places a model junk over a blueprint and talks to Vietnamese Naval officer sitting beside him.
President Lyndon B Johnson gives a speech at the John Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD 21218, United States) in Baltimore. He talks about U.S. relations with South Vietnam, peace talks and proposes an aid program. He offers to hold diplomatic discussions to end the war in Vietnam. He states the need for an independent South Vietnam. “Such peace demands an independent South Viet-Nam—securely guaranteed and able to shape its own relationships to all others—free from outside interference—tied to no alliance—a military base for no other country.” President Johnson said. The President calls upon South East Asia nations for a co-operative economic drive, and asks the United Nations and nations like the Soviet Union to join in. “For our part I will ask the Congress to join in a billion-dollar American investment in this effort as soon as it is underway. And I would hope that all other industrialized countries, including the Soviet Union, will join in this effort to replace despair with hope, and terror with progress.” President Johnson said. Men working with heavy machinery in a South East Asian industrial plant. View of working men constructing a modern bridge in Vietnam. Vietnamese farmer threshing harvested rice. A doctor examines a Vietnamese man. The crowd applauds the President's speech. Views of Vietnamese people working on farms, in technical and scientific laboratories, and industrialization in Vietnam. A European or American professor teaches a Vietnamese student inside a laboratory. Vietnamese women working inside a textile factory. Vietnamese farmers carrying produce. President Johnson quotes from the book of Deuteronomy in the Bible. “We may well be living in the time foretold many years ago when it was said: “I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live.” Well, we will choose life. In so doing we will prevail over the enemies within man, and over the natural enemies of all mankind.” President Johnson concludes his speech.