United States Naval patrol bomber SP-2H patrol the coast in Saigon,Vietnam as a river in the background is seen winding into the sea. Bomber flies over inhabited areas and junks. Aerial view from cockpit. A crewman speaks over the mike. Aerial view of water and shoreline as bomber flies over three swift boats and Nha Trang, where naval advisory radio station is located. Smoke is seen rising from the area.
United States ambassador to South Vietnam Maxwell D. Taylor and other officials leave Montagnard Technical School. They visit a Vietnamese Catholic Girls School. Ambassador Taylor speaks to a Vietnamese girl and an American nun as photographers take pictures. Luman also speaks to the nun.
United States ambassador to South Vietnam Maxwell D. Taylor presents Commendation Medal to Captain Gerald Geringer, medical advisor, in a ceremony held under a parachute tent at 23rd Infantry Division headquarters. Ambassador Taylor introduced to 23rd Division staff officers. Luman talks to Colonel Brown.
UH-1 Huey helicopters of the U.S. Army First Aviation Brigade, approach and land in trail formation at Camp Holloway, Pleiku, Vietnam. Numerous other helicopters are seen at the airfield. Change of scene shows U.S. army troops of the 101st Airborne Division boarding the helicopters, which then lift off and depart, in a trail formation of a dozen or so, UH-1s. Many of the troops ride, with their legs dangling from the choppers.
Groups of U.S. soldiers, from 101st Airborne and 4th Infantry Divisions, walk toward helicopters of the 1st Aviation Brigade, at Camp Holloway, Pleiku, as they prepare to depart for an incursion into Cambodia, during the Vietnam war. Several arriving UH-1 Huey helicopters fly low past parked ones. Six are seen hovering in formation just a few feet over the field and then moving forward toward the runway. Troops walking toward their helicopters include one contingent carrying a large American flag. Some soldiers assemble in groups, placing their gear on the ground. They are dispatched to helicopters in orderly groups. The contingent with the flag has it furled as they climb aboard a UH-1.
Scene is Camp Holloway, Pleiku, Vietnam, where a CH-47 chinook Helicopter of the 1st Aviation Brigade is seen flying low with several bundles of supplies suspended underneath it. It is raising huge clouds of red dust from the bare earthen part of the camp, outside that covered by marsden matting aka pierced steel planking (PSP). Four UH-1 Huey helicopters take off raising dust as they start their takeoffs.A Hughes OH-6 Cayuse taking off from the camp's large field of bare red earth. The field's White wind sock is seen in the distance. A 3000 foot marker is planted on the field. Flight crews in helmets standing by their UH-1s with engines running. An OH-6 passes, flying low over the PSP runway. Closeup of main rotor spinning on a helicopter. Closeup of "Papa Gator" and emblem of 119th Assault Helicopter Company, containing picture of an alligator, painted on a helicopter.