United States helicopters on airfield during the Vietnam War. United States Army advisors talk to one another. They share maps, papers and discuss plans. U.S. and South Vietnamese soldiers board United States helicopters...including a CH-21C Shawnee. A Sikorsky UH-34D Seahorse takes off from airfield. South Vietnamese soldiers onboard helicopter holding rifle and machine gun. A group of helicopters in flight. Point of view from helicopter as it flies down a river. Piasecki H-21 helicopter in flight. A South Vietnamese soldier looks out of window. South Vietnamese soldiers jump out of helicopters and cross rice field after landing. Aerial view showing some soldiers using a field telephone in the middle of a dense jungle. Two United States soldiers shout at each other. An injured U.S. soldier lies on a stretcher and loaded on helicopter. A South Vietnamese soldier in helicopter. The helicopter flies away. A South Vietnamese Navy captain shows his United States counterpart enemy positions after looking through binoculars. Swift boats shooting at Vietcong forces. South Vietnamese soldiers carrying weapons and landing on beachhead. A South Vietnamese soldier gives signal to fire. An explosion on beachhead. South Vietnamese soldiers load shells into mortar and fires them. An injured South Vietnamese soldier with saline tube attached to him lying on a stretcher. The injured soldier cries in pain. Vietnamese women watch medics clean another soldier. A Vietnamese soldier prays for the dead, incense burns in front of him.
Helicopters on an airfield during the Vietnam War. Wreckage of a destroyed plane with debris. A nose art of a destroyed plane. Bombed soldiers’ barracks at a United States airbase in South Vietnam. Photographs of soldiers’ loved ones, including a portrait of a young girl, among debris in bomb site. Vietcong car bombing of the United States Embassy in Saigon, South Vietnam on March 30, 1965. A 1962 Chevrolet C10 Suburban ambulance arrives in the scene. A bloodied embassy worker covers his face. Another embassy worker is taken away. A bleeding victim holds his cigarette as he’s carried on a stretcher. A United States Army Bell UH-1 Iroquois “Huey” helicopter in flight. U.S. Army soldier in helicopter fires machine gun. Soldiers advancing in field and an upturned helicopter is seen in the foreground. Soldiers escape from the upturned helicopter. United States soldiers recuperate in makeshift hospital beds. A soldier with head covered in bandage. A shirtless soldier sleeps with his mouth open. Coffins draped with the United States flag at an airfield in South Vietnam. Soldiers and sailors pay tribute to the fallen soldiers. Soldiers carry the coffin of a fallen colleague to an aircraft. Vietnamese civilians look on. A pair of poor Vietnamese children. Vietnamese men and women praying. Drafted soldiers onboard a ship arrive in Vietnam. They unload supplies, one of them holding a banner. Soldiers holding the United States flag and a banner. Combat units of the United States Marine Corps onboard ship heading to Vietnam. The Marines disembark a landing craft upon landing on beach head in Vietnam. A Lockheed C-130 Hercules taxiing at an airfield in Vietnam. Army combat unit soldiers disembark and unload weapons from the transport plane. Trucks carrying combat soldiers moving.
United States and South Vietnamese soldiers defend Kontum during the Nguyen Hue Campaign of the Vietnam War. U.S. and South Vietnamese officers discussing a map. South Vietnamese soldiers digging trenches. An American soldier watches. An M-72 LAW (Light Anti-Tank Weapon or Light Anti-Armor Weapon). A South Vietnamese soldier holding a M-72 LAW. A U.S. M151 MUTT (Military Utility Tactical Truck) parked in a protective ditch. South Vietnamese soldiers sitting in an 81mm mortar emplacement. South Vietnamese soldiers digging trenches. Vietnamese refugees being evacuated by helicopter. Native women in traditional Vitnamese hats. American and Vietnamese soldiers in a helicopter.
United States and South Vietnamese soldiers defend Kontum during the Nguyen Hue Campaign of the Vietnam War. The Kontum airfield seen through concertina wire. United States Air Force C-123 Provider transport aircraft parked on the airfield. A C-123 taxis and takes off. The runway at the airfield. Hills in the background. Aerial view of the surrounding area. A C-123 taxis and takes off. The aircraft in flight. A C-123 lands at the airfield. Soldiers on a road.
United States and South Vietnamese soldiers defend Kontum during the Nguyen Hue Campaign of the Vietnam War. U.S. and South Vietnamese soldiers in a helicopter in flight. A soldiers talks over the radio receiver. Another mans a machine gun. Aerial view of the area below. The pilot in the cockpit. Black smoke rising from enemy rocket explosion in residential area near the Kontum airfield. U.S. FSB (Fire Support Base) November, with enemy artillery rounds exploding in rice paddies near the base. The machine gun barrel and ammunition belt. A South Vietnamese soldier alongside a U.S. gunner firing M-16 rifle towards the ground. Explosions in enemy positions. A South Vietnamese officer questions Montagnard refugees on a road. U.S. soldiers stand by and watch.
United States and South Vietnamese soldiers defend Kontum during the Nguyen Hue Campaign of the Vietnam War. A South Vietnamese officer questions Montagnard refugees on a road. U.S. soldiers watch as he talks to the refugee man and woman with a child. American and South Vietnamese officers inspect a captured North Vietnamese map. The map spread on the bonnet of a military vehicle. A photograph of a Vietnamese woman near the map.