United States Air Force (USAF) Forward Air Controllers (FACs) in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. A Vietnamese observer seated in a USAF O-1F Bird Dog aircraft. The wheel of the aircraft move. An FAC team is briefed in a forward area. ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam) troops firing in the background. A briefing map shows troops positions and suspected Viet Cong positions. A Province Chief briefs SSF and USAF personnel on a field. An O-1F aircraft circles overhead. ARVN troops firing in a battle line.
United States 4th Infantry Division in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Two flags fly from poles as a soldier walks up a road in the foreground. A sign read ' Headquarters 4th Infantry Division' United States flag flies from a pole. A soldier enters the 4th Infantry Division headquarters building at camp Enari. A jeep parked in the foreground. Two soldiers walk out of the building. A Memoriam to commemorate the soldiers of the 4th Infantry division who lost their lives during the Vietnam War.
U.S. Air Force pilot, FAC (Forward Air Controller) imbedded with U.S. Army unit, directs air strikes from a forward position on the ground in Vietnam War. Another FAC Pilot in cockpit of an O-1 Bird Dog aircraft in flight over Vietnam. F-100 Supersaber fighter defending a U.S. and Montagnard outpost in Vietnam, under assault by North Vietnamese troops. Loose formation of Douglas Skyraider aircraft in flight. U.S. tactical fighters strafe the assaulting North Vietnamese ground targets only 40 yards from friendly forces .RF-4 reconnaissance aircraft taking off and views from cockpit. RF-4 returns and parks. RF-4 camera and equipment. View inside cockpit of RF-4. Soldier records intelligence information gleaned from reconnaissance mission. Men in photo interpretation control room viewing aerial photographs from panoramic, oblique, vertical and radar cameras. Major General William B. Rosson, Chief of Staff to General William Westmoreland, in Vietnam. Intelligence Officer briefs commanders, using a chart. Tactical Airlift C-130s in flight and dropping paratroops. Sky filled with descending parachutes. Paratroopers land. Heavy equipment being pulled by parachutes from rear of C-130, in flight. Pilots in cockpit of C-130 making an assault landing. C-130s landing on rough dirt strip, using short field landing techniques.Troops and vehicles rush out of plane while its engines are still running. Troops march in field.
Big Picture depicts the U.S. soldiers in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Paintings of United States soldiers and firing of artillery during the Vietnam War in Vietnam. A CH-47 helicopter lands at hilltop fire base. U.S. troops on patrol First Lieutenant leads a squad. They ignite orange smoke flare to mark landing zone for Huey chopper (Bell UH-1 helicopter) that lands and picks them up. View of squad inside helicopter. U.S. troops sweep for mines. U.S. tanks equipped for mine clearing. Huey chopper fires missiles. Tank fires artillery. U.S. artillerymen fire 155 mm long tom gun. Soldier fires fully automatic hand-held weapon.
U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense David Packard on a tour of Vietnam. The official party arrives at the Naval Support Activity, Saigon. Binh Thuy Air Base administration building in the background. David Packard gets out of a car. He walks towards a U.S. Army UH-1H helicopter for flight to Cantho, Republic of Vietnam. The helicopter warms up. U.S. Vice Admiral Elmo Russell Zumwalt, Comnavforces, Vietnam gives a thumps up. An army officer boards the helicopter. It is ready for lift off. The plane director gives a signal for the lift off. The helicopter lifts off. Dignitaries stand in rain next to the helicopter at Cantho. Commodore Tran Van Chon, Chief of Naval Operations;Vietnamese Navy , in a rain coat. Mr Packard walks through the rain. Commodore Chon greets him. Mr Packard enters a car. He walks away from the car and moves into a building. Mr Packard and the party enters a small building. He gets into carry all. He leaves the doorway of the small building. He walks through mud and a sailor holds an umbrella over his head. He enters a small building and chats with unidentified naval officers. Mr Packard shakes hands with Vietnamese and other officers and prepares to leave from Ben Luc. (Vietnam War period).
Activities of U.S. 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Commanding General of the U.S. Forces in Vietnam, General William C Westmoreland, arrives in Vietnam. He pins the Combat Infantry Badge on Lieutenant Walter A. Hess of 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry 101st Division. The General troops the line of the assembled honor guards. He stops to chat with some of the men.