Close up views of Medal of Honor medals being awarded to United States soldiers of Vietnam War by President of the United States Gerald Ford, Jr. The medals are seen against a black background.
U.S. Air Force C-130 airdrop operations in 1968, during Vietnam War. C-130 aircraft in flight. View of supplies being airdropped. View from inside cabin of a C-130, as South Vietnamese paratroopers jump from the aircraft. A heavy pallet of supplies being pulled onto a runway by parachutes, from the rear of a low-flying C-130. Scene shifts to October 14, 1973,at Lod International Airport, Tel Aviv, Israel, where a U.S. Air Force Military Airlift Command C-5 aircraft is unloading 186,200 pounds of military assistance cargo, at the start of the U.S. "Nickel Grass" airlift operation during the Yom Kippur war or Arab-Israeli War of 1973. Pallets of ammunition are seen being offloaded, followed by a 175mm self-propelled gun, covered with wooden cargo boxes. Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir and other observers watch stand on the airport ramp. Golda Meir meets and greets members of the U.S. Air Force crew.
U.S. Navy Lt. Charles F. Klusmann arrives in San Diego, California after his escape from The Pathet Lao forces during the Vietnam War. Charles F. Klusmann and his wife climb down a ladder. Men on an airport take pictures. He is greeted by people at the airport. Lt. Klusmann and his wife get in a car. They leave the airport. Swearing in Ceremony aboard destroyer USS John Willis. U.S. Navy commander Bob Robert and his wife with other officer aboard USS John Willis. A Navy officer speaks into a microphone. U.S. Navy commander Bob Robert and his wife taking an oath. They sign on a document. Navy officers stand in the background.
United States Air Force support for the evacuation of Cambodian refugees from Boung Long, Cambodia during the Vietnam War. A man directs a USAF C-47 Skytrain. Cambodian refugees board the C-47 with their belongings. C-7As and Viet Nam Air Force (VNAF) C-47s taxi on a field and are parked. Refugees in the background. The C-7As and refugees on the field. The refugees board a C-7A aircraft. The refugees with their children and their belongings
United States Air Force (USAF ) support for the evacuation of Cambodian refugees from Boung Long, Cambodia during the Vietnam War. A Cambodian refugee camp : Damaged tents and utensils on the ground. Refugees carrying belongings come out of a jungle. Children walk with their belongings. A man pulls a cart loaded with belongings.
A dozen South Vietnamese farmers walk side-by-side in a large rice paddy, spraying their crop. Outline map of Vietnam and environs is superimposed on the moving scene. Two farmers threshing crop by hand. Two farmers pounding rice with a foot operated wooden device. A steam shovel lifting mineral-bearing earth. Vietnamese workers using hand tools to loosen ore and push it down the side of a hill, where another is seen pushing a small rail car loaded with ore. A worker cutting a rubber tree on a plantation, to collect its natural latex. Latex being processed in a factory. Workers in a spinning facility and others weaving large rolls of cloth by machine.