U.S. Fire Support Base Ripcord in the A Shau Valley, South Vietnam, under siege by North Vietnam Army forces during the Vietnam War. Several 105mm towed howitzers are positioned atop the base, with barrels at high elevations. Camera focuses on Gunners loading and firing one. The wind is blowing very hard, complicating their activity and causing the cameraman trouble too, as it buffets his camera. The camera views several guns operating in the battery. The Battery then level their guns to fire point blank at their targets. (They also increase their powder charge to 7, the maximum.) the resultant recoil strikes and injures SP/4 Bowing of a gun crew, who falls and is seen lying at the back of his gun. The crew calls for help and carries him to the ground. Cameraman stops filming briefly.. Next, a soldier is seen leaning over SP/4 Bowing, rendering aid.
Operation Junction City in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Vietcong soldiers attend a political or propaganda lecture. The soldiers cross a road. A Vietcong soldier carries an AK-47 submachine gun. An abandoned bus at the side of a road. A dead body beside the bus. Vietcong soldiers in a field. A dead ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam) soldier. United States Air Force C-123B Provider aircraft in flight
Dedication of the "John F. Kennedy Square" in Saigon, South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. South Vietnamese soldiers standing at attention on the right side of the "John F. Kennedy Square" in front of the Notre Dame Cathedral of Saigon (01 Công xã Paris, Bến Nghé, Quận 1, Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, Vietnam). South Vietnamese Prime Minister, Maj. Gen. Nguyen Khanh walks past South Vietnamese soldiers. Sign behind South Vietnamese soldiers in English and Vietnamese reads “Kennedy, Leader for Freedom and Peace of Mankind”. Guests crowd under a tent in the John F. Kennedy Square. United States Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, and the South Vietnamese Prime Minister, Maj. Gen. Nguyen Khanh, inspect South Vietnamese troops. Ambassador Lodge puts his hand on his left chest while Prime Minister Nguyen Khanh salutes. Ambassador Lodge walks past troops. Vietnamese banner adorns the tent for guests. Ambassador Lodge began speaking in a podium. United States military officials in attendance clapping. Ambassador Lodge shake hands with Prime Minister Nguyen Khanh. Ambassador Lodge accompanies Prime Minister Nguyen Khanh to unveil plaque. The United States ambassador and Prime Minister Nguyen Khanh unveil a plaque to the memory of President John F. Kennedy. Plaque reads “Cong Truong Tong Thong John F. Kennedy”. Ambassador Lodge gets inside black staff car. A photographer stands up after the staff car drives away. Plaque to the memory of President John F. Kennedy at the John F. Kennedy Square. The square in front of Saigon's Roman Catholic Notre Dame Cathedral is renamed President John F. Kennedy Square, in honor of the late United States President John F. Kennedy.
Aerial view of two areas in Toy Bien in Nam Phan Province being bombed by U.S. Air Force aircraft during Vietnam War in Vietnam. The fields in Toy Bien in Nam Phan Province in Vietnam. White smoke rises from the fields in two areas due to napalm bomb explosion from American aircraft.
French troops (French Far East Expeditionary Corps) attack the Vietminh Red troops in Vietnam, French Indochina. Soldiers fire artillery (M114 155 mm howitzer). Explosions far in the field. French and Vietnamese soldiers marching through a field. Two soldiers wading in a river, carrying an injured patient. A French soldier with foot injury from Vietminh traps made out of nails. Man showing a foot trap by the Vietminh. Reinforced by eight new French Battalions, French and Vietnam forces launch the heaviest attack of the eight year old war. French and Vietnamese soldiers cross a rice field.
Aerial view of bombardment of target areas along the sides of a canal by U.S. Air Force aircraft in Toy Bien, in the Nam Phan Province, during the Vietnam War. White smoke spread over the fields in Toy Bien in Nam Phan Province in Vietnam. U.S. Air Force aircraft drop bombs on targets along the sides of the canal as thick white smoke rises from napalm bombs and White Phosphorus explosions. Fields in view on the sides of the canal. Smoke rises from bombed areas in fields.