New class of replacements go through the 3 day course at the 1st Air Cavalry Division Combat Training Center in Vietnam. Soldiers (replacements) of 1st Air Cavalry load and fire M-16 rifle. Views of soldiers fire M-203 grenade launcher attached to M-16 rifle. Soldiers fire M-203 grenades. (Vietnam War period).
New class of replacements go through the 3 day course at the 1st Air Cavalry Division Combat Training Center in Vietnam. Replacements walk from range to training area. A board showing 'First Team Combat Reaction Course Training Area'. Another board reads 'Welcome Hanoi Village'. Soldiers walk under the sign. Soldiers in dense forest, they look for mines and traps. Instructor addresses soldiers while holding a class in forest, on mines and booby traps. (Vietnam War period).
New class of replacements go through the 3 day course at the 1st Air Cavalry Division Combat Training Center in Vietnam. Cheiu Hoi moves through barbed wire in sapper demonstration. He disconnects wires from a Claymore mine. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. Marines in Vietnam. A Chaplain joins U.S. Marines for religious services during a brief lull in the fighting. An altar made of ammunition boxes and a homemade chapel. Marines gather around for the mass. They listen carefully to the Chaplain. Communion is shared on a blasted hill. A Marine holds the wafers and wine. Soldiers aboard a troopship in the Mekong River. A GI covered in monsoon mud. He washes up in the river water. (Vietnam War period).
Regarding the struggle of the South Vietnamese people against Vietcong forces during the Vietnam war. South Vietnamese people on Railway station in Vietnam. Scene of a sabotaged train after attack, derailed and on its side. Children study in school. Teacher teaches. Scientists experiment in a laboratory. A nun teaches in a school. A soldier pushes his gun out from among the shrubs and shoots. Nuns in service of injured people. Scene of graveyard. Doctor checks patient. Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem on visit of a hospital. He sees injured patients. Guerrillas stand after surrender. Guns, rifles and grenades on display. Children play in a school. Honoring the dead by presenting a garland on their casket. South Vietnamese soldiers salute dead.
A damaged house during the battle of Hue in Vietnam, during the Tet Offensive. Soldiers running. Piled sacks near a wall. Soldiers with guns. A soldier talk on radio set. People fleeing Hue. People crossing a bridge. People go on bicycles. A board reads "BO-TU-LENH-SU-DOAN". Soldiers walk on road. AARVN counter attack on the citadel with F-4 close air support. Dead bodies of Viet Cong soldiers and their weapons in rubble. (Vietnam War period).