Tactical Communications, Operation Junction city at War Zone-C in South Vietnam. U.S. soldiers of 2nd Battalion, 173rd Airborne Brigade in action in Vietnam War. Soldiers wait to board helicopter. Radio equipment on the ground. Radio operators check their PRC-25 radios. A large group of U.S. Army soldiers rests, with many seated on the ground, as they wait for the arrival of helicopters. Yellow smoke arises from signal grenade in the background. Formation of five UH-1D helicopters seen approaching overhead toward camera position, and then landing. Some of the soldiers load into the helicopters and they took off in turn. Some of the soldiers remain seated near the landing zone, holding their helmets and gear down as the wind and dust from the propellers fills the air. Soldiers board the helicopter and they take off.
Tactical Communications, Operation Junction City at War Zone-C in South Vietnam. U.S. soldiers of 2nd Battalion, 173rd Airborne Brigade in action. Two soldiers sit in dense bushes. A soldier sits and checks aerial photos with maps. Soldiers rest and walk as they wait for helicopter. Soldiers draped with ammunition belts sit on ground. A soldier carries rifle. Officer speaks. Soldier raises his hand. Officer looks into paper. Soldiers fire with rifle. (Vietnam War period).
Tactical Communications, Operation Junction City at Vietnam War Zone-C in South Vietnam. U.S. soldiers of 2nd Battalion, 173rd Airborne Brigade in action. Group of U.S. Army African American and white soldiers take cover under fire. Soldier digs foxhole. Officer looks at a map and speaks over radio. Soldier crawls to officer in check point bunker. Soldier fires 81 mm mortar. Wounded soldier carried off on stretcher. Officer speaks over radio. Wounded soldier treated and carried to UH-1D helicopter. Helicopter takes off.
Tactical Communications, Operation Junction City at War Zone-C in South Vietnam. U.S. soldiers of 2nd Battalion, 173rd Airborne Brigade in action. Wounded soldiers wait for medical helicopter to be evacuated. Soldiers sit in foxhole. Other soldiers crawl as they come under enemy fire. Officer speaks over PRC-25 radio. Soldiers set up a screen of fire with M-16 rifles into jungle. Soldier with jammed M-16 rifle. Another soldier comes to help him. Soldiers fire 81mm mortar. Soldiers with M-16 rifle ready to fire in bush. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. soldiers move near a zigzag Vietcong trench in a jungle in South Vietnam. Smoke rises from fire in background. Two U.S. soldiers sit in an open field. They talk to each other and smoke. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. Marines in Vietnam. A Chaplain joins U.S. Marines for religious services during a brief lull in the fighting. An altar made of ammunition boxes and a homemade chapel. Marines gather around for the mass. They listen carefully to the Chaplain. Communion is shared on a blasted hill. A Marine holds the wafers and wine. Soldiers aboard a troopship in the Mekong River. A GI covered in monsoon mud. He washes up in the river water. (Vietnam War period).