U.S. troops prepare to battle NVA (North Vietnamese Army) troops near Phu Bai fire base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. A sign reads 'Task Force Lafayette'. U.S. 82nd Artillery welcome sign. Sandbagged bunkers at 82nd Artillery fire base. A soldiers looks through binoculars. Soldiers remove ammunition from a bunker. Rounds are prepared for howitzers.
U.S. troops prepare to battle NVA (North Vietnamese Army) troops near Phu Bai fire base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. U.S. soldiers of 82nd Field Artillery Regiment throw rounds off a resupply truck. Shells stacked on the ground as they are unloaded from trucks. A soldier carries a shell to a howitzer. The soldier adjusts the fuse on the shell.
U.S. troops load supplies on a U.S. Army helicopter at Phu Bai fire base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. A U.S. Army UH-1D Iroquois helicopter takes off from a resupply chopper pad. Two Vietnamese boys carrying jugs of water to the chopper pad. Supply boxes stacked at the chopper pad. Words on boxes : Meal Combat Individual. A UH-1D Iroquois lands on a chopper pad. Rotor blades of the helicopter turn. Soldiers U.S. 82nd Field Artillery Regiment load supplies into the UH-1D helicopter.
U.S. troops near Phu Bai fire base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Soldiers sitting and resting. The soldiers advance to take up NDPs (night defensive positions).
MACV (US Military Assistance Command, Vietnam) Advisory Team assists South Vietnamese soldiers in the evacuation of refugees from Kontum during the Nguyen Hue Campaign of the Vietnam War. Local Vietnamese in coolie hats near bicycles on a road. Soldiers on a tank as it moves along on a road. Billowing smoke on ridge from USAF Boeing B-52 Stratofortress air strikes. South Vietnamese soldiers, U.S. M-60 tanks and a U.S. Army Bell UH-1D Iroquois helicopter nearby. South Vietnamese positions around a helipad. Aerial view of the area. Smoke on ridge. Bomb craters and terrain damage in jungle foliage on the ridge. Officers observing bomb damage through open door of the helicopter. An American officer speaking into the radio headset. The pilot at controls in the cockpit.
MACV (US Military Assistance Command, Vietnam) Advisory Team assists South Vietnamese soldiers in the evacuation of refugees from Kontum during the Nguyen Hue Campaign of the Vietnam War. A U.S. Army Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter takes off from a helipad in the area. South Vietnamese soldiers talk to Vietnamese refugees. Refugee men, women and children await evacuation. Women and children run towards a CH-47 and board the helicopter. The chopper takes off. Guns positioned on the other side of a barb wired fence. Refugees wait their turn for evacuation. U.S. officers and soldiers supervise and discuss the operation nearby. Refugees board a U.S. Army Bell UH-1D Iroquois helicopter. The MACV team and U.S. soldiers help them get strapped in. The pilot in the cockpit. The chopper takes off.