Operation New Life in Vietnam. United States carpenters construct a wooden framework for a building. Officers converse with each other. An officer's T-shirt reads Bravo Wolfhounds. A board in the background reads 'Operation New Life'.
Operation New Life in Vietnam. A board reads 'Freight Terminal Department, Naval Supply Depot'. Wooden makeshift shower facilities. A Red Cross flag flutters on a pole. United States officers seated inside a tent. Number of wheelchairs next to the tent.
South Vietnamese civilians escaping Vietnam during the fall of Saigon to the North Vietnamese, at the end of the Vietnam War. USS Blue Ridge (LCC-19) maneuvering off shore of South Vietnam. Flotilla of small Vietnamese civilian boats carrying evacuees approach the USS Blue Ridge. U.S. Navy sailors take lines from the boats and help refugees to board the US Navy ship.
American Forces Radio and Television Station in South Vietnam. The television network station. A man climbs up a tall radio tower which broadcasts television and radio signals. A soldier watches a television program on a small portable black and white television set. A soldier enters the television station. He pins a notice on a notice board
Activities during Vietnamese refugee Operation New Life and Operation New Arrival in the United States at the end of the Vietnam War. American Airlines passenger airplane parked at the Harrisburg International Airport in Pennsylvania. '747 Luxury liner' and 'American' written on the airplane. People gather at the airport to greet the Vietnamese refugees. A child holds a board which reads: 'May you have peace, love, joy'. Another child holds a sign: 'Welcome to America'. Refugees debark from the airplane. Military personnel and civilian officials stand in the foreground. A baby in a stroller. Pennsylvania State Police stand at the airport. Refugees being interviewed at the airport. Refugees stand among the spectators. Vietnamese woman crying. Refugees board buses which will take them to Fort Indiantown Gap.
Operation New Life and Operation New Arrival in the United States at the end of the Vietnam War. A building in a receiving area of Fort Indiantown Gap (FIG) near Jonestown, Pennsylvania. A sign board near the building reads: 'US Army Task Force New Arrivals Receiving Station'. Members of the 401st Personnel Service Company lining up in formation. Troops and Women's Army Corps (WACs) enter the building to prepare for the arrival of Vietnamese refugees. Members being briefed by an officer. Officer explains the use of paper forms. Soldiers and WACs listen. Officer addresses them. Members look at the forms. I believe the date this was shot was in late April we were there to stock all of the building before the refugees arrived. These solders and WACs were flown in from Ft. Carson. That day the fort was nearly a banded maybe 25 regular stationed there until our plane landed. We stocked every barracks with everything from tooth brushes, toilet paper to sheet and blankets. In a couple weeks we changed a ghost town into a town of about 30,000 people. I was in the second platoon front line next to the shortest WACs in the army.