United States Air Force AC-119K Stinger aircraft on night interdiction missions from Phan Rang Air Base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Operator in AC-119K aircraft. View of the engine exhaust. Flares descending. Enemy tracers flash nearby. AC-119K fire control display panel.
United States Air Force AC-119K Stinger aircraft on night interdiction missions on Phan Rang Air Base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. AC-119K engines starts. Another engine of the aircraft starts. The propellers rotate.
U.S. Navy carrier air attack in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Contrails leave wing tips of an aircraft as it climbs steeply. Bombs under the wings of the aircraft. Aerial view of the terrain. Rockets are launched from a United States Navy A-1H Skyraider aircraft. The A-1H aircraft pulls up before the rockets hit the ground. The rockets streak towards a wooded area next to the shoreline of the Mekong river. The aircraft in flight. It climbs steeply over the river.
Activities of the U.S. 3rd Marine Division Corps at Camp Carrol in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. A U.S. Marine without utility cover, no shirt stands next to 105mm Howitzer (HOW) turns elevating crank and gun rises. The rear portion of 105 HOW barrel containing mechanical azimuth indicator tilted down as elevation handle is turned. The marine turns a mechanical azimuth indicator . The marine behind 105 HOW turns elevation control and barrel of the HOW being lowered. A wall of position containing HOW made from empty ammo carets and sandbags. A truck moving over dirt area and mountains in the background. Another marine turns elevator crank on 105 HOW and barrel rises. A hand of a marine pulls lanyard and then straddles trail of HOW with legs. Two marines with utility trousers and one without a shirt and other without utility cover and no shirt stand near 105 HOW and appear to be having gun drill as one marines pulls lanyard and the other marine looks through the sight on HOW . A Marine wearing headset and microphone as he gives firing command. Stacks of empty ammo crate and tents of Camp Carrol in the background. 105 HOW in position at the camp. Shelters made from empty ammo crates and sandbags. Marines carry 105 How rounds as they hold gun drill. One of the marine loads 105 HOW and closes breach while the marine with headset looks through sight on HOW. Another marine pulls lanyard. The gun does not fire. Marines stand at rear and next to 105 HOW. Lanyard being pulled and gun does not fire. One of the marine stands holding fingers in his ears while the other looks through sight. Stacks of ammo boxes in the background. Shell being ejected and thrown out.
United States soldiers in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. The soldiers change their currency to military payment certificates (MPC). They stand in a line and exchange the currency one after the other. A soldier receives MPC and walks off. Another soldier with glasses signs on a paper after receiving the MPC. U.S. soldiers stand in front of a building. The soldiers walk in a line to the orientation building . Smoke rises in the background. They climb up the stairs of orientation building. A sign reads '18th Repl Orientation Building'. U.S. recruit Richard Gillispie and others being issued field gear. They exit from the building carrying barracks bags.
U.S. troops in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. A box of toothbrushes and toothpastes. Soldiers pick up brushes and pastes one after the other. The soldiers stand in an open area. U.S. recruit Richard Gillispie puts toothpaste on a brush and brushes his teeth. The soldiers stand in front of their barracks bags. They collect keys from a counter. A soldier smokes. They pick up barracks bags and walk to their billets. A soldier with a cigarette in his mouth and bags on his shoulder walks towards a billet. The soldiers enter their billets.