Aftermath of Vietcong attack on Camp Holloway assigned to 52nd Aviation Battalion, Army Support Command in Vietnam. Major General Nguyen Khanh, Commander, U.S. Military Assistance, Vietnam General William C Westmoreland and McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to President for National Security on an inspection tour. Others follow. Blown tire on plane landing gear. A hole in steel mat. General Khanh talks to Mr Bundy. General Westmoreland talks to General Khanh and Major General Delk M Oden. Rubbish strewn about. Ragged holes in blown roof of American quarters. (Vietnam War period).
United States Army 1st Infantry Division nicknamed 'Big Red One' arrives at the beach. American color guard on a beach in Vietnam. General William C Westmoreland, Commander General, U.S. Army, Vietnam, on the beach landing area. Major General Jonathan O Seaman, Commander General 1st Infantry Division, on beach. He converses with Brigadier General John "Jack" Norton, Commander of the 1st Air Cavalry Division and Colonel Curt Aronson of his Division. .A Landing Craft Utility (LCU) arrives carrying the first contingent of the 1st Infantry Division. As the troops disembark, General Westmoreland shakes hands with first two soldiers. The soldiers carry barrack bags. Remainder of the film shows troops offloading from the LCU and making their way across the sand past the Generals and the color guard.(Vietnam War period).
Aftermath of the Tet Offensive bombing on United States Embassy (4 Le Duan Blvd., District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) in Saigon, Vietnam. Blasted roofs of wrecked buildings across the street of the United States Embassy. Extreme damage inside the building. Smashed building and broken windows. Rubble strewn about in the building. Blood on glass top of desk. Rubble in offices and wrecked furniture. Vietnam map hanging askew.
Operations of United States 1st Infantry Division in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. An ambulance backs up to a field hospital. Wounded Vietcong prisoners outside the hospital. Dead Americans are carried from the ambulance on litters. The wounded are carried from the ambulance. U.S. Army Lieutenant General Jonathan O.Seaman talks with a wounded soldier at the field hospital. An officer and an ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam) interpreter questions wounded Vietcong prisoners.
The activities of the United States Navy in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. United States Navy Sea, Air and Land Forces (SEAL) members in Vietnam. Three SEAL officers get aboard a United States Army UH-1B Iroquois helicopter. A member of the SEAL recon team talks to pilot and direct him by a map. Helicopter in flight over heavy jungle in Rung Sat area along the Lon Tau river. Aerial view of a barren patch of ground amidst the jungle growth, taken during the recon. Small tributaries of the Lon Tau river. Mekong area, river in the background.
The activities of the United States Navy in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. United States Navy Sea, Air and Land Forces (SEAL) members in Vietnam. An unmanned 50 caliber machine gun on board the SEAL's boat. River bank in the far background. Machine gun barrels protruding out from the craft. Canvas tarp covers the landing craft mechanized (LCM). Boat makes a turn to starboard towards the river bank. A man talks on a microphone aboard a SEAL. A man talks on a phone in the background. Man aboard LCM talks on a radio phone. SEAL member talks on a radio phone, he puts his hands up on a map. He makes a mark on the map area. Man stands behind a 50 Caliber machine gun. He puts binoculars up on his eyes. Man scans the river bank with the binoculars.