A jeep moves along a road at Ankhe Airfield in South Vietnam. Tents of the American 1st Cavalry Division. The U.S. and Vietnamese flags outside the division headquarter tent. A UH-1D helicopter flying close to ground passes in the background.
American Forces withdrawing from Cambodia. View of an American Fire Support Base Myron near Hill 428, in Cambodia. U.S. 199th Light Infantry Brigade troops talk to local tribesmen through an interpreter. AH-1G helicopter fires rockets outside the camp. (Note: John W. Hart, who served with 3rd Platoon, D/5/12, 199th LIB, at Fire Base Myron in 1970, has identified the shirtless soldier with curly hair at second 41 in the clip, as Otto White, one of his unit's M-60 machine gunners.)
As they prepare to withdraw from Cambodia, U.S. soldiers of 3rd platoon, D/5/12, 199th Light Infantry Brigade, burn boxes and debris at Fire Base Myron, near Hill 428 in Cambodia.
UH-1D helicopters come in for landing at grassy field at U.S. 199th Light Infantry Brigade's base camp during the Vietnam War. Soldiers board UH-1Ds. The UH-1Ds take off from the field.
Tired and dirty U.S. 199th Light Infantry Brigade soldiers return to camp after a mission, in the Vietnam War. UH-1D helicopters come in for landing.
Troops from unit D/3/7 of the U.S. 199th Light Infantry Brigade, patrol streets in the Cholon district of Saigon, Vietnam. Local people go about ordinary activities. A man carrying a white flag containing a red cross, emerges from an alley, leading several others carrying a red coffin. A man on a Honda motor scooter drives past. A woman sits on the back of the scooter. A man rides past on a three wheel pedicab, with baggage loaded in passenger seat, as the funeral cortege enters the street. The U.S. Army patrol continues along a dirt road. Closeup of one of the soldiers with full field pack. Commander of the unit, 1st Lieutenant Jim Gentile, stops and gives directions, pointing with his hands. Seen next, in quick succession are Dewey Edwards (from the Baltimore MD area) and then Bob Cheatham, carrying an M79 grenade launcher and wearing a belt of ammunition over his shoulder. lieutenant Gentile on a radiophone, and then leading soldiers into a house. Infantryman Bob Cheatham and others searching the house for evidence of Viet Cong. Two soldiers comparing notes as they look over detailed maps. Soldiers walking in outdoor storage areas and past a group of Vietnamese working in a yard filled with large stone blocks. U.S. Soldiers in front of a French-style concrete house. (Vietnam War period).
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