U.S. Army vehicles on the beach and ships underway in Vietnam. Two Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel (LCVP) under way on a river. Debris on a beach. Coiled barbed wire. Damaged C ration cartons strewn about beach. Exhaust comes from Landing Craft Mechanized (LCM) up to beach. The LCM at beach loaded with tanks. Two soldiers walk on beach with rifles over shoulder. LCVP on river. View of the Cua Viet River. The Landing Craft Mechanized (LCM) under way on river. Officers and men on bridge of U.S. Navy USS Meeker County (LST -980). An officer speaks over bull horn. Jeeps and trailers move over deck of LST for offloading. Vehicles offloading from Landing Ship Tank (LST). Jeep moves over beach to parking area. LCM-8 moves up alongside. The LCM-8 on the beach. A man in dungarees, flak jackets and helmet works. The LCM-8 loaded with tank turns around and moves out into the river. LCM-3 underway on river. Soldiers relax on deck of U.S. Navy USS Meeker County (LST -980). An LCM loaded into the ship. Soldiers roll the metal pole to load the LCM. The soldiers work on the LST. Tanks and vehicles on beach. UH-1B Iroquois helicopter in flight over water. Rolling debris over the area. Beach area being eroded by heavy surf. Surf rolling in towards the beach. Vehicles parked on the beach. A causeway in the foreground. (Vietnam War period).
The orbital flight of Friendship 7 under project Mercury-Atlas 6 carrying John Herschel Glenn Jr from the United States. USS Noa (DD-841) at sea. Crew stands at the rail of the ship. The capsule of the Mercury-Atlas 6 being lifted up on ship. John Herschel Glenn Jr walk on the ship deck. John Herschel Glenn Jr lifted by the UH-25B helicopter. The helicopter in flight. The helicopter lands on USS Randolph. John Herschel Glenn Jr walks on deck and meets people. He talks to people on the deck. He signs a document. A cameraman in the foreground.
Elements of the U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division battle North Vietnamese regular Army forces at Fire Support Base Ripcord in the A Shau Valley, South Vietnam, in the last major confrontation of the Vietnam War. View of Fire Support Base Ripcord from inside an arriving helicopter. An OH-6A Cayuse / AH-6J (Little Bird) approaching to land at the Fire Support Base. The helicopter lands on a heli-pad. Another OH-6A is parked in the background. Scene shifts to a Bell UH-1 Iroquois (Huey) helicopter leaving the Fire Support Base. It has, white stripe on the top, behind greenhouse, and red dot on the tail boom. This identifies it as belonging to A Company, 158th Aviation Battalion (Assault Helicopter) "Ghost Riders." Views of much work going on to fortify the Fire Support Base. An American F-4 Phantom jet fighter aircraft flies overhead at hight speed and drops ordnance on a nearby hilltop. View from Ripcord Base of fire and smoke rising from the target. Soldiers setting up Claymore mines along side of the base, for nighttime protection. More views of fire and smoke at the target hill. A soldier sitting atop Support Base structure, speaking on radio telephone. Closeup shows "Screaming Eagle" patch of the 101st Airborne Division on his left shoulder. More views of defensive work going on, including the setting up of several 155mm howitzers by Battery B 2nd 319th Artillery. A UH-1 flies low overhead. A Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter is seen approaching with supplies suspended underneath in a net sling. Soldiers placing parcels in a UH-1 with engine running, about to depart. Glimpse of hooch with sign reading "FSB Ripcord" and displaying a large ace of spades. A CH-47 descending closeby. More views of bombs exploding on the neighboring hilltop.
Elements of the U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division defending Fire Support Base Ripcord in the A Shau Valley, South Vietnam, in the last major battle of the Vietnam War. View from Base Ripcord toward wooded hills from which the North Vietnamese 324B Division is laying siege. It is extremely windy causing canvas covers to flap. The camera is focused on a hilltop where enemy positions are located. Bombs explode there, dropped by U.S.aircraft (unseen). At times large clouds of white smoke rise from the site.
U.S. Army 319th Artillery attached to 101st Airborne Division strengthens defenses of Fire Support Base Ripcord to combat North Vietnam forces in the A Shau Valley, South Vietnam, during the Vietnam War. Opening scene shows Captain David F. Rich, Commander of Battery B, 2nd Battalion, 319th Artillery, conversing with Lieutenant Brennan, in very windy conditions atop the Fire Support Base. The carriage of a 105mm towed howitzer is seen in the foreground, with two shells set on it. View of howitzers and shells stacked atop the Base. The wind whipping aross the Base. African American soldier working on a howitzer. Another fighting the wind, as he carries canisters of propellant charges. He tosses them behind the sandbagged artillery position. Other soldiers join in moving gunpowder canisters. Closeup of two soldiers as the wind blows the hat off one.
President of the United States Lyndon Baines Johnson visits Cam Ranh Bay Air Base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. American General William C. Westmoreland and President Lyndon Baines Johnson mount a trailer platform. William C. Westmoreland at a podium. President Lyndon Baines Johnson speaks and pins Distinguished Service Medals on to officers for their services. William C. Westmoreland, General William Wallace Momyer, U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam Ellsworth Bunker, Deputy Commander of Military Assistance Command in Vietnam Creighton Williams Abrams Jr, Vice President of South Vietnam Nguyen Cao Ky present at the platform. President Lyndon Baines Johnson shakes hands with Nguyen Cao Ky. He talks to Ellsworth Bunker and William C. Westmoreland. President boards a United States Air Force aircraft VC-137B.
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