Tactical communications equipment being operated by the 124th Signal Battalion, 4th Infantry Division, during the Vietnam War. An Army technician turns on a piece of radio equipment in a rack and picks up a phone to monitor as he makes adjustments. He moves to several other boxes in a large array of equipment in racks, and makes adjustments in them. Closeup of one piece of equipment shows gauges for measure and frequency drift and technician's hand on the control for output adjustment. The technician holds phone to his ear as he makes adjustments to the radio equipment.
Vietnam tour by U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, David Packard. Mr.Packard enters the Vietnamese Naval shipyard, Saigon. A motorcade seen. Vietnamese personnel in the background. Cars enter a gate. Mr Packard meets Commodore Tran Van Chon, Chief of Naval Operations,Vietnamese Navy and Captain Bich, Commander of Republic of Vietnam Naval shipyard. Mr Packard meets with several Vietnamese officers. Mr Packard ; U.S. Vice Admiral Elmo Russell Zumwalt, Comnavforces, Vietnam and Commodore Chon look at the map of the shipyard. Mr Packard enters a car. The car moves. Republic of Vietnam military police in a jeep. The official party departs the shipyard.
View of a bunker atop Hill number 88, at Fire Station Base in South Vietnam. United States soldiers with 155 mm guns on M-109 Howitzer. Barrels placed in line next to dirt road. (Vietnam War period).
United States officer speaks over phone at Fire Station Base Roy in South Vietnam. Soldiers fire M-110 Howitzer. They rotate barrel of the gun. Soldiers load and fire M-110 Howitzer form mountainous position. (Vietnam War period).
Aerial view of Fire Support Base Bastonge and mountainous terrain in South Vietnam, during the Vietnam War. United States soldiers fire 40 mm gun from M-42. At dusk, muzzle flashes and fires tracers from M-42 and M-55 Quad .50 caliber machine guns at night.
Aerial view of Alpha 4 Fire Station Base in South Vietnam. United States soldiers fire from M-108 Howitzer. Soldier loads projectiles into M-108 Howitzers. Projectiles placed on a rack. African American soldier opens one of the projectiles. M-108 Howitzer fired. (Vietnam War period).