Elements of B Company, 2/47th Infantry (Mechanized) and C Company, 4/39th Infantry, clearing North Vietnamese Army regulars from "Widows' Village" (a hamlet of housing provided by the government of the Republic of Vietnam for widows and children of fallen ARVN soldiers). The action occurs January 31st, 1968 (on "Tet", the Vietnamese Lunar New Year holiday). U.S. troops firing small arms as they proceed across tall grass into the hamlet. Several M 113 armored personnel carriers (APCs) are seen accompanying the troops. A soldier, who has been hit, lying prone between two other soldiers, tries to get up. Flames consuming huts. Riflemen moving cautiously. A slightly wounded soldier, lying on the ground, smiles as he points to his leg as another soldier helps him. APCs advance, firing 50 caliber machine guns. Riflemen staying close behind. Views of a number of huts, in the hamlet, that have not been destroyed. (Note: According to Colonel Sonny Craven, then leader of a combat photo team on the scene, these combat sequences was filmed by soldiers of the 221st Signal Company [Pictorial]). Craven and another photographer, were both wounded in the engagement.) (Vietnam War period).
U.S. 2nd Field Forces, 199th Light Infantry Brigade fighting with Vietcong in Vietnam. Ordnance test of M72 Law, Rocket HE 66mm. Open flat field. Test range. View of target tank. Impact of rockets as they hit target tank. Smoke rises up from explosions. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. Marines in Quang Ngai, Vietnam during Operation Rio Grand of the Vietnam War. Film opens showing a line of U.S. marines patrolling in area of rice paddies. A hut is burning in the background. Closeup of two marines consulting maps. One points in a direction. Camera pans from the burning hut to the marines with the maps. (Another one has joined them.) Camera focuses on marines leading two suspected Viet Cong men wearing nón lá (conical hats). Next, the marines are seen herding an entire family of suspected Viet Cong including women and children. A Viet Cong suspect, stripped to the waist during interrogation, puts on his hat and shirt. He is given a packet of documents. Closeup of Vietnamese woman. Marines relax taking a break.
The aftermath of the Viet Cong attack on village of Dong Xoai, Phouc Long Province, South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. A few Vietnamese soldiers looking at captured Viet Cong bazookas, recoilless rifles, mortars, machine guns and rifles. View of the guns and rifles on the ground. Artillery being fired. A soldier standing in a dirt area. An explosion occurs and smoke rises at a distance among the tress. Damaged houses and scattered debris. A few soldiers walking through the debris. Dead bodies of children among the debris. Dead men and women in the village beside the houses. Dead bodies lying about on the ground. Dead soldiers on the outskirts of the village. A part of a dead body lying on the ground.
The aftermath of the Viet Cong attack on village of Dong Xoai, Phouc Long Province, South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Burnt dead bodies lying on the ground in the village. Bodies of dead children lying about. Dead men lying on the ground among debris. Burnt and charred bodies lying in fields in the village.
Artillery fortification in Bien Hoa, Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Soldiers of U.S. 8th Artillery 54th Artillery Group work on an M107 Self Propelled 175mm gun. Filled sacks in the foreground. Firing from the howitzer. The soldiers come out of a bunker. A soldier carries shells and places them on a howitzer. Two men load the shells in the howitzer and clean a gun barrel.