Activities aboard PBRs (Patrol Boat River) during Operation Giant Sling Shot in Vietnam. A PBR stops long enough to blow up bunkers along a riverbank. A crewman aboard the PBR. The boat in the Vam Co Long river. Trees alongside the riverbank. A sampan along the port side for inspection. A stern view of the PBR and the sampan. The PBR heads up the river. Several of the Ssmpans secured to the PBR for search. Vietnamese aboard the sampans. The sampans around the starboard quarter. Vietnamese policeman searches one of the sampans.
A newly developed Allied weapon airboat underway in water, Vietnam. Driven by airplane propellers it can operate on only four inches of water. Vietnamese soldiers on board the airboat.
Lieutenant Colonel John C. Hughes Commander of United States 52nd Aviation in Vietnam. Lieutenant Colonel Hughes and crew chief look at a map with United States UH-1B helicopter in the background. A Sergeant checks a M-60 machine gun. UH-1 B helicopters lined up at Ban Me Thout airstrip. UH-1Bs take off from the airstrip. A Sergeant on alert with a gun in an airborne helicopter.
Mid air fueling of airplanes in Vietnam. The U.S. Navy's twin jet A 3 'Sky warrior' works as a flying gas station. Airplanes in flight. The twin jet provides mid air refueling facility to the bombers.
View through barbed wire at contract airlines supplementing the armed forces in Vietnam. Airlift International DC-7 taxiing on runway. United States tank parked along a side of the air base and barbed wire entanglements in the area.
Early morning view in Vietnam. Rooster crowing on patio. Water buffalo grazing in the field