South Vietnamese Regional forces or Popular forces being trained during the Vietnam War. A stone statue of an infantryman at the entrance gate of the training center. South Vietnamese Regional Forces trainees move past the statute as they double time. Trainees with their hands held up in the air walk. Feet of the trainees as they run. Troops run. Rifles lined up as troops run in the background.
'A A Aweapons' about the weapons captured by American troops during Vietnam War. Aerial view of a beach. An American soldier at a RPD 7.62 mm Light Machine Gun. He fires the machine gun from behind a vertically placed wooden crate. Light Machine gun being fired at night.
Weapons captured by American troops during Vietnam War. Two American soldiers fire a RPD 14.5 mm Light Machine Gun. Machine gun fired at night as flashes of light appear in the dark. Tracers streak the target area.
Weapons captured by American troops during the Vietnam War. American soldiers at a 37 mm gun as they man it. They rotate a wheel like structure on the gun. The gun being fired at night. An aircraft in flight and the 37 mm anti aircraft gun is fired at it. Tracers streak the aircraft.
Weapons captured by American troops during the Vietnam War. A 57 mm anti aircraft gun is fired and flakes burst in the sky. The anti aircraft gun is fired at night. A sign reads ' Air Force system Command Liaison officer at sea '. An insignia.
U.S. Project Combat Trap/Commando Vault using outsized bombs to create helicopter landing zones in the jungle, during the war in Vietnam. (At first, the project used 10,000 pound World War II M121 bombs. In 1970, it switched to the 15,000 pound BLU-82/B bomb, also called a "Daisy Cutter".) View from another aircraft, of a C-130 aircraft in flight overhead. View inside the cargo compartment of the C-130 flying , with its rear cargo door open, above a layer of clouds. A parachute trails behind the aircraft, attached to a large pallet on which a BLU-82/B (Bomb Live Unit-82) is fastened. The load is released and the parachute pulls the pallet and bomb out of the plane. Scene reverts to the view of the C-130 from another aircraft. The parachute and bomb are seen falling from the C-130. Camera follows them as they fall through the cloud layer. Next, a huge ball of fire is seen in the jungle below. Dense gray smoke billows upward. Scene shifts to view from a helicopter flying closer to the ground, which is obscured by dense tree canopy below. View of the explosion site shows depression in the jungle canopy, but the helicopter doesn't get close enough to reveal more.