Seventh Fleet Operations in Vietnam. USS Mars (AFS-1) and USS Princeton (LPH-5) underway at sea. A destroyer moves away from USS Mars. Officers aboard USS Mars. Fuel hanging over side of USS Mars. The flight deck of the ship. Supplies coming over from USS Mars. The supplies come over a hi-line. Men stand on the mid deck area of the USS Mars. An FS-1 helicopter on the bow. Two men walk by in the foreground as a cargo net of supplies comes over the hi-line. Supplies come over on the hi-line to the USS Princeton for replenishment. The cargo net returns back to USS Mars. Men walk over the flight deck in the foreground.
Coast Guard cutter 'Point Grey' in open waters in Vietnam. The crew of the boat stands on the deck. USCG (United States Coast Guard) R. Mitchell at the wheel in the wheelhouse. Lieutenant Junior Grade Rozoski stands in the background. Two men cover a 50 caliber machine gun on the craft. The craft underway at a high speed. Coastline in the background. Captain John T. Shepherd fires a 45 caliber submachine gun. Two crewmen stand by. A Swift Boat underway. A PCF-4 boat underway. A small junk boat passes by. The Commanding Officer Lieutenant Bitner talks with Mr. Baldwin of New York Times.
Swift Boat 'Point Grey' underway in Vietnam. A hilly shoreline in the background. A small island in the far background. A PCF-3 Swift Boat is docked at a pier at An-Thoi area. Captain Shepherd (U.S. Navy) on wooden dock area being instructed in firing of M-70 grenade launcher. The captain fires a grenade and lowers his gun. Lieutenant F.D. Scovel fires an M-79 launcher. Two Vietnamese look on. A harbor area in view. A small island in the far background. Lieutenant F.D. Scovel fires a grenade. Captain Shepherd fires the M-79 grenade launcher. The grenade strikes the water. The Swift Boat at the pier.
A small Vietnamese junk boat underway in Vietnam. Twelve Vietnamese natives aboard. Crewmen aboard a boat. A young Vietnamese boy secures lines around the bow aboard the junk. Four men in the stern of the junk boat. A Vietnamese flag flutters from the stern. GM1 M.J. Kelleher on swift boat covers the junk with a submachine gun. Papers of the Vietnamese natives being scanned. Cards and type-written sheets in hands of the two men scanning the papers. An old Vietnamese man smiles. Some of the deck covers are removed by the crew as the junk boat is checked.
U.S. soldiers slogging through muddy fields, along dirt roads and through jungles. A soldier with vegetation on his helmet (comouflage) speaks into a radiophone. A few U.S. soldiers talk among themselves in camp. A tank firing artillery. A helicopter firing rockets. An air ambulance helicopter. Soldiers boarding a Pan American jetliner for transport to Hawaii, for Rest and Recuperation. Signs reading:" Aloha R&R Hawaii' and 'Aloha R&R Personnel' displayed at Fort Derussy, in Hawaii. A group of men and women in a long canoe, enjoying themselves during "R and R." An Army Chaplain conducts religious service for soldiers in the field. Sign on a building reads: Army Community Service Center." An officer speaks with a woman military dependent at the center. A sign lists myriad types of assistance available. Two soldiers talk. A soldier gets a hair cut. Little school children at a school in Vietnam. Vietnamese people following an American soldier across a bridge. American soldiers under fire and firing weapons from the air, from tanks, and from small arms. A soldier loads a grenade launcher. An Army doctor treats an injured Vietnamese girl. American flag flying in the breeze.
Aerial view of small houses and huts among trees being bombed and strafed by U.S. A-1Skyraider aircraft during Vietnam War. Several trees and a stream flowing among them. A few huts among the trees. Thick smoke and fire rising from several areas in the region. Fields in view near the trees. Smoke emanating from huts near the fields. Smoke rising from several areas. Several trees in view. Few buildings in view. Smoke rising at a distance seen.