Scenes aboard a Carrier of the U.S. Seventh Fleet as pilots and newsmen are briefed before an air raid on supply installations in North Vietnam. Aircraft on the deck of the carrier are prepared to launch. Bombs being loaded on the planes. Aircraft take off from the carrier.
Aerial views by U.S. 1st Cavalry Division, of the Deo Mong Pass on Route 19 between Quinhon and Ankhe in South Vietnam.
United States Naval patrol bomber SP-2H patrol the coast in Saigon,Vietnam as a river in the background is seen winding into the sea. Bomber flies over inhabited areas and junks. Aerial view from cockpit. A crewman speaks over the mike. Aerial view of water and shoreline as bomber flies over three swift boats and Nha Trang, where naval advisory radio station is located. Smoke is seen rising from the area.
United States ambassador to South Vietnam Maxwell D. Taylor and other officials leave Montagnard Technical School. They visit a Vietnamese Catholic Girls School. Ambassador Taylor speaks to a Vietnamese girl and an American nun as photographers take pictures. Luman also speaks to the nun.
United States ambassador to South Vietnam Maxwell D. Taylor presents Commendation Medal to Captain Gerald Geringer, medical advisor, in a ceremony held under a parachute tent at 23rd Infantry Division headquarters. Ambassador Taylor introduced to 23rd Division staff officers. Luman talks to Colonel Brown.
A marine beach controller talks on bullhorn and another one waves directional flag during troop build-up in Da Nang. UH-34G helicopters landing in field. Men run towards the aircraft and unload supplies from it. Helicopters take off. (Vietnam War period).