A South Vietnamese attack on a Red Vietcong stronghold leads to the capture of smuggled weapons south of Saigon, Vietnam. A helicopter lands near South Vietnamese soldiers. A cache of arms. Soldiers near boxes of ammunition. An International Control Commission inspects the captured smuggled weapons. (Vietnam War period).
Construction work at the 3rd Field Military Hospital in Saigon, Vietnam. A hospital building under construction. Three ambulances parked in the premises. Construction in progress. Traffic moving along busy street on the right. Several vehicles in the foreground. Vietnamese workers wearing typical conical hats (“Non la”) and several in hard hats, work within the foundation of the hospital under construction. A worker uses a hand saw to rip a 2 X 4 piece of wood. A Vietnamese worker smooths cement on a masonry wall. '3rd field hospital' written on a building. A U.S. Army sentry with a rifle guards the entrance. (Note: Expansion of the hospital, which included a modern emergency facility and surgery suite, among other things, was managed by U.S. contractor, Pacific Architects and Engineers. Most of the construction workers on the project were Vietnamese.) (Vietnam War period).
Vietcong Tet Offensive in Saigon, Vietnam during the Vietnam War. A U.S. Army armored commando car V-100 drives on a narrow street towards a wrecked 2.5 ton truck. Trees on either side of the street. Smoke in the background. U.S. Army soldiers and military police fire rifles during battle. U.S. Soldiers take cover behind walls and fire rifles. The armored commando car backs out from the narrow street away from the burned out truck. A wounded soldier is taken from the V-100. He is placed on a litter and is carried to an ambulance. A wrecked, bullet ridden Vietcong car outside the U.S. Embassy compound. Vietcong dead being collected on the American Embassy grounds. Vietnamese civilians on vehicles on the streets. M-113 Armored Personnel Carriers drive past U.S. 25th Infantry Division. Houses along the sides of the streets.
Activities of the United States Special Forces in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Sargent Arthur C. Juniewicz of U.S. Special Forces gives candies to Montagnards children in a South Vietnamese village. Women also get candies from the Sargent. Child tied to a mothers back receives candy. Families of Montagnards in training. Sargent throws candies at a distance. An old Vietnamese woman with a large hole in her ear lobe. Sargent Juniewicz drives away in a jeep.
Activities of the Vietnamese Special Forces in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Vietnamese Special Forces soldiers cut bamboo sticks with a large blade. Bamboo sticks being split into two by soldiers. Bamboo strips being interwoven as they construct the side of a barrack. Bamboo poles being split into two.
U.S. 3rd Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division operations at Phu Bai Combat Base near Hue, Vietnam. Film begins showing a sign for the 85th Evacuation Hospital, with its motto, "Miracularum Laborantes" that the hospital staff translated as "Miracle Workers." Next a jeep is seen driving out of the hospital compound. It has the name "Fearless Fly" stenciled beneath its windshield. In the background hospital enlisted quarters can be seen. The jeep stops leaving the compound before joining traffic headed North on Highway !, where it passes a building on the left reportedly converted into basketball and volleyball courts. Considerable traffic is seen in both directions on the road, including trucks carrying various army cargo and personnel. A Vietnamese couple is seen riding together on a motorbike. An army flat bed truck drives next to an area with many buildings and a red and white checkered water tank. The camera focuses on a sign at the entrance to that road which points to: "528th QM Co Package POL Yard & filling station." The camera then pans across an open field showing buildings in the distance. Change of scene shows a fenced compound with buildings and a parked truck inside. (Vietnam War period).