Capabilities of U.S. amphibious vehicles carried by landing ships, United States. DUKWs (six-wheel drive amphibious trucks) loaded with troops as it heads for beach. Ships in the background. Artillery gun on DUKW at beach.
U.S. ships, crafts, and amphibious vehicles used to carry out an amphibious operation on foreign land, United States. Specially equipped U.S. ships designated as Control Ships depicts DEC (Control Escort Vessel) underway at sea. PCEC (Patrol Craft Escort Communication ship) underway at sea. Taskforce vessels scattered at sea. Ships used for amphibious operations including AGC (Amphibious Force Flagship), APA (Attack Personnel Transport ship), AKA (Attack Cargo Ship), LSD (Dock Landing Ship), APD (High Speed Transport), LST (Landing Ship Tank), and LSM (Landing Ship Medium). Landing Crafts include LCU (Landing Craft Utility), LCM-6 (Landing Craft Mechanized Mark-6), LCVP (Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel), LCPR (Landing Craft Personnel Ramped), LCPL (Landing Craft Personnel Large). Landing Vehicles includes LVT 3-C (Landing Vehicles Tracked Mark 3-C), LVTP-5 (Landing Vehicle Tracked Personnel Mark-5), LVTA-5 (Landing Vehicle Tracked Armored Mark-5), and DUKW (six-wheel drive amphibious truck). Control Ships DEC and PCEC.
United States Vice President Richard Nixon arrives at the Siem Reap international airport in Angkor in Cambodia. A Cambodian girl welcomes the Vice President and his wife by presenting floral greetings to them. He inspects an honor guard by Cambodian soldiers. He along with other officials visits King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia. After the meeting with the king the he visits an ancient reservoir in Angkor.
Cambodians line up with guns as United states Vice President inspects them. One of the gun points at the legs of the Vice President as he walks past the line up. He speaks to one of the cambodian youth lined up. The Vice President along with other officials visits Banteay Kdei,a Buddisht temple and Angkor thom. He comes out of the Angkor wat and speaks to Cambodian children.
United States Vice President, Richard Nixon and his wife, aboard a U.S. Military Air Transport Command C-121 aircraft, arrive at Saigon airport in Vietnam. A Vietnamese woman (Tran My Hue) greets the Vice President's wife with flowers. Vice President stands in attention as a Vietnamese army officer salutes next to him as it drizzles. He inspects the honor guard by Vietnamese soldiers and also speaks to soldiers.
United States Vice President Richard Nixon arrives at the Dinh Gia Long Palace (now known as the Ho Chi Minh City Museum 65 Lý Tự Trọng, Bến Nghé, Quận 1, Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh 70000, Vietnam) in Saigon, Vietnam. Flags of the United States and Vietnam fly atop the palace. Soldiers dressed in white stand for an honor guard. Vice President Nixon, American Ambassador to Indochina (Cambodia, Laos and South Vietnam) Donald R. Heath, along with other officials from Vietnam enter the palace where they have a meeting. After the meeting they come out of the palace.
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