The Guided Missile Cruiser USS Canberra (CAG 2) is seen from another ship as she is underway. A terrier missile is launched from her stern area, showing a brilliant white flame as it heads toward a drone target aircraft somewhere in the skies above. Black smoke trails as it goes out of sight. Scene shifts to a tracking camers showing the missile and a clock. Suddenly the camera records the missile striking the drone plane which then is seen burning and falling from the sky in pieces.
A flight of Douglas A4D-2 Skyhawk aircraft are catapulted from the aircraft carrier, USS Forrestal (CV-59) during daylight. Scene shifts to darkness where some lights are seen ostensibly during night recovery operations. Scene shifts again, to daylight, as one of a group of civilians, who have been visiting the Forrestal, bids farewell and thanks her Captain, Richard E. Kibbe.
American prisoners of war in Vietnam. A news bulletin shows an anchor with a map of South East Asia in the background. American soldiers taken as prisoners by North Vietnam enter a church and take their seats. A priest conducts a service. Numbers on the shirts of the men. They attend the prayer service. Men receive the holy communion at their seats. The prisoners sing hymns at the prayer service. (Vietnam War period).
Air kinescope of TV news broadcast about U.S. soldiers taken as prisoners of war (POWs) by the Viet Cong. Large illustration of POWs on wall behind newscaster, Charles Collingwood. A map of Vietnam highlights Con Thien, on the Vietnam-Laos border. Viet Cong film shows them, covered with foliage camouflage, firing small arms as they move through brush and surprise a group of American soldiers who surrender and are taken prisoner. The Americans are escorted by armed Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army soldiers. Views of individual American POWs. The news anchor speaks with a sign in the background that reads ' Causality reporting officer ' (Vietnam War period).
News bulletin shows news anchor with a map of South East Asia in the background. Scenes in Vietnam: A helicopter in flight. A South Vietnamese soldier sits at the door of the helicopter. It lands. South Vietnamese soldiers get off the helicopter. They move across a field. Soldiers advance and then fight against Viet Cong men. An explosion occurs. South Vietnamese soldiers find an enemy Vietcong soldier, injured, and one kills him with his knife. Soldiers look at dead Viet Cong soldier as he lies in the field and remove nearby weapons. Men carry the body away. South Vietnamese soldiers walk across a stream of water. The water rises up to their waistline.
North Vietnamese at a prison camp in Vietnam. A news bulletin shows a news anchor with a map of South East Asia in the background. North Vietnamese taken as prisoners at a prison camp in South Vietnam. The prisoners in a group. Men play sports and learn guitar. A patient being given blood plasma. The prisoners play table tennis at the camp. Patients on cots at a hospital. The news anchor talks about the prisoners at the camp in South Vietnam.
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