United States Marine, with the help of axe attempts to open supply box, drooped by parachutes at Khe Sanh, Vietnam. Another Marine soldier washes his face and hands with water in a small plastic container and dries with a towel. Soldier empties water from container onto canteen cup. He pours water from a metallic water container into metal box. Group of Marines throw empty ammunition containers and other trash, onto 6x6 truck. (Vietnam War period).
Flares fired from an aircraft, descend on a dark night sky at Khe Sanh, Vietnam. View of explosion on ground.
Vietnamese civilians refugee men, women and children with baggage stand at airstrip in Khe Sanh, Vietnam, waiting to be evacuated. United States Marine soldiers stand with M-16 rifles in arm sling. Vietnamese refugees embark United States Air Force C-123 Provider aircraft. Dogs on the airstrip. United States Marines escort a Vietnamese woman on to the rear of C -123 Provider aircraft. (Vietnam War period).
United States Marines with helmets, carrying weapons disembark from CH 53A Sea Stallion helicopter on Khe Sanh airstrip in Vietnam. Marines in line formation climb a hillside. Remains of a number of M-14 rifles on the ground. Marine soldier picks up one of the rifles and examines it. View of remains of Aid Station and Dental Unit at Khe Sanh. A soldier stands next to debris and removes large pieces of twisted metal roof structures with several radio antennae in the background. Sign boards on ground read 'Emergency Anytime' and 'Dental Clinic'. (Vietnam War period).
Smoke, sparks and fire rises as ammunition dump explodes in Khe Sanh, Vietnam. View of 105 Howitzer with bunkers and sandbag walls in the foreground. White smoke rises with explosions from ammunition dump.
Remains of burnt ammunition dump scattered on ground in Khe Sanh, Vietnam. View of burnt remains of canisters, metal ammunition boxes, dirt bunkers, wooden ammunition crates and metal objects on ground. Ashes and burnt debris lying in an enclosure of sandbag wall. Marine soldiers walk across a dirt road with bunkers on both sides. They pass sandbags to each other to rebuild a bunker. (Vietnam War period).