Aftermath of Vietcong attack on Camp Holloway assigned to 52nd Aviation Battalion, Army Support Command in Vietnam. Major General Nguyen Khanh, Commander, U.S. Military Assistance, Vietnam General William C Westmoreland and McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to President for National Security on an inspection tour. Others follow. Blown tire on plane landing gear. A hole in steel mat. General Khanh talks to Mr Bundy. General Westmoreland talks to General Khanh and Major General Delk M Oden. Rubbish strewn about. Ragged holes in blown roof of American quarters. (Vietnam War period).
United States Army 1st Infantry Division nicknamed 'Big Red One' arrives at the beach. American color guard on a beach in Vietnam. General William C Westmoreland, Commander General, U.S. Army, Vietnam, on the beach landing area. Major General Jonathan O Seaman, Commander General 1st Infantry Division, on beach. He converses with Brigadier General John "Jack" Norton, Commander of the 1st Air Cavalry Division and Colonel Curt Aronson of his Division. .A Landing Craft Utility (LCU) arrives carrying the first contingent of the 1st Infantry Division. As the troops disembark, General Westmoreland shakes hands with first two soldiers. The soldiers carry barrack bags. Remainder of the film shows troops offloading from the LCU and making their way across the sand past the Generals and the color guard.(Vietnam War period).
Aftermath of the Tet Offensive bombing on United States Embassy (4 Le Duan Blvd., District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) in Saigon, Vietnam. Blasted roofs of wrecked buildings across the street of the United States Embassy. Extreme damage inside the building. Smashed building and broken windows. Rubble strewn about in the building. Blood on glass top of desk. Rubble in offices and wrecked furniture. Vietnam map hanging askew.
American prisoners of war in Vietnam. A news bulletin shows an anchor with a map of South East Asia in the background. American soldiers taken as prisoners by North Vietnam enter a church and take their seats. A priest conducts a service. Numbers on the shirts of the men. They attend the prayer service. Men receive the holy communion at their seats. The prisoners sing hymns at the prayer service. (Vietnam War period).
Air kinescope of TV news broadcast about U.S. soldiers taken as prisoners of war (POWs) by the Viet Cong. Large illustration of POWs on wall behind newscaster, Charles Collingwood. A map of Vietnam highlights Con Thien, on the Vietnam-Laos border. Viet Cong film shows them, covered with foliage camouflage, firing small arms as they move through brush and surprise a group of American soldiers who surrender and are taken prisoner. The Americans are escorted by armed Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army soldiers. Views of individual American POWs. The news anchor speaks with a sign in the background that reads ' Causality reporting officer ' (Vietnam War period).
North Vietnamese at a prison camp in Vietnam. A news bulletin shows a news anchor with a map of South East Asia in the background. North Vietnamese taken as prisoners at a prison camp in South Vietnam. The prisoners in a group. Men play sports and learn guitar. A patient being given blood plasma. The prisoners play table tennis at the camp. Patients on cots at a hospital. The news anchor talks about the prisoners at the camp in South Vietnam.