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.
President of the United States Lyndon Baines Johnson visits Cam Ranh Bay Air Base in Vietnam during Vietnam War. United States Air Force aircraft VC-137B taxis. President of the United States Lyndon Baines Johnson and U.S. General William Wallace Momyer alighting from VC-137B aircraft. They take places on platform and salute. 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 Vietnam Nguyen Cao Ky present on platform. Lyndon Baines Johnson and American General William C. Westmoreland return to platform. Officials stand during the playing of national anthem. Lyndon Baines Johnson and American General William C. Westmoreland leave platform. Lyndon Baines Johnson pins medals on several servicemen.
Rear view of United States Army Bell UH-1 Iroquois “Huey” helicopters during the Vietnam War. U.S. Army helicopter pilot and soldier crew member in cockpit. South Vietnamese soldiers using a field phone. Republic F-105 Thunderchief fighter bombers in flight. Aerial bombing of Vietcong positions. An officer points to a map. Hand traces marked positions on the map. Vietnamese civilians evacuate from their homes. An injured civilian is taken on a helicopter. A Vietnamese child cries. Vietnamese children wash their hands and dries them with washcloths. A girl combs her hair. A boy lays a tablecloth and glass on the table. A girl holding a bowl of biscuits. A boy is given a biscuit and eats it. “I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle,” says United States President Lyndon B. Johnson during a news conference at the White House on July 28, 1965. Photographs of various young American men of different backgrounds, some with their girlfriends or working. A photograph of American teenagers or young adults. Communist Chinese leader Mao Zedong smiling. A portrait of North Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh over a flag of North Vietnam. View of a ship’s bow. The United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Wasp (CV-18) or USS Lexington (CV-16). A Douglas A-4 Skyhawk fighter jet takes off from aircraft carrier. A pair of bombers dropping bombs over Vietnam. Bombs falling from bomber. Aerial view of bombs exploding in North Vietnam. A USMC LVTP-5 amphibious armored personnel carrier. United States Marines land on beach head and moving in jungle. “This, then, my fellow Americans, is why we are in Vietnam.” President Johnson ends his speech.
A documentary series titled 'The Big Picture' on Mission Montagnard of United States soldiers during the Vietnam War. An animated map showing North Vietnam and South Vietnam. An aerial view of the central highlands of Vietnam. These places have been infested by guerrilla forces. A village in the highlands. Tribal people stand outside their huts. Some people walk along a street. Men cut wood. U.S. soldiers stand outside a building and discuss amongst themselves. They are accompanied by Vietnamese special forces. The soldiers seated in a jeep pass along the street. Villagers gather outside their houses. The soldiers meet them. They give candies to children and talk to them. A medic drives a jeep. He opens a box of medicine and places it in the jeep.
American WAC (Women's Army Corps) Advisors and the Vietnam Women's Army Forces Corps in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. The Vietnam Women's Army Forces Corps standing in formation in front of a building. The corps saluting. The Vietnamese flag being hoisted on a flag pole in front of the building. Two corps securing the rope of the flag. View of the Women's Army Forces Corps standing in formation. Two American WAC Advisors, Major Kathleen I. Wilkes and Betty L. Adams, and a Vietnamese Women's Army Forces Corps officer saluting. The Vietnamese Women's Corps marking time. A vehicle in the background in front of a building. The corps marching in formation on the ground.
President of the United States Lyndon Baines Johnson visits Cam Ranh Bay Air Base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Military Police and Security Police form a cordon taking one arm's distance and salute. Insignia of the U.S. Air Force 12th Tactical Fighter Wing. Aircraft ramp reads 'Welcome to Cam Ranh Bay'. Ramp being pushed out to the United States Air Force aircraft VC-137B. President Johnson wearing tan gabardine zipper jacket bearing the gold seal of the President and General William Wallace Momyer alighting. The President Shakes hands with the Vice President of Vietnam Nguyen Cao Ky, U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam Ellsworth Bunker and General William C. Westmoreland. He talks to William C. Westmoreland. The President and Nguyen Cao Ky leave the air base in a car.