Security camera footage of the 1967 USS Forrestal fire. An airplane takes off from the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal off the Gulf of Tonkin during the Vietnam War. A second aircraft takes off from USS Forrestal. Another plane is about to take off when the camera shifts view to a airplane burning after its fuel tank has been ruptured by a Zuni rocket. Fire grows stronger as it engulfs the other planes parked nearby. Thick smoke envelopes the USS Forrestal.
USS Forrestal fire off the Gulf of Tonkin during the Vietnam War. Time moving on a clock. An RA-5C aircraft is on fire. A man is seen in lower foreground of the footage. Crewmen spraying water on the plane in flames in the foreground. A large fire is seen in the background, as more planes around the vicinity catch fire. Smoke begins to get very heavy in the area filled with parked aircraft. A small explosion from a plane in the background. Debris shot up in the air. Personnel putting water over many aircraft in flames. Many Damage Control (DC) personnel among aircraft in the background. Vast area of the deck on fire, heavy smoke in the background. Fire spreading all over the USS Forrestal. An RA-5C being moved in the foreground to the right. DC personnel move toward main fire in the background. Burned out aircraft in the original area of the beginning of the fire. Men fighting fire in the background. Some units attempting to contain fire. Another RA-5C is moved away from the fire, after heavy sprays of water are put on the aircraft. Deck is filled with DC personnel using fire hose to put out fire. A forklift moves up to the starboard wing of an RA-5C. Forklift lifting the aircraft, with the nose of aircraft seen on the deck. Aircraft is seen with burns and heavy damage. Firefighters spraying with fire hoses. A heavy cloud of smoke obscures much of the background in the fire.
ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam) soldiers being extracted by helicopters after Operation Lam Son 719 in Laos during the Vietnam War. U.S. Army Bell UH-1 Iroquois (Huey) parked on a hilltop. and several in flight around Route 9. One chopper on ground with the rotor blades spinning. ARVN soldiers around the chopper. Soldiers seated in the chopper that takes off. Hills in the background. A Huey in flight over military trucks and artillery at a camp. South Vietnamese soldiers in groups at the landing zone. They prepare to evacuate the camp. Soldiers with back packs seated and standing. Three U.S. Army soldiers converse. Military trucks in the background. Vietnamese soldiers with back packs and guns walk in one direction. A Continental tire on a military jeep with a 'Ben Hai' sign and insignia. A South Vietnamese soldier with a military water bottle. A soldier signals a helicopter as it approaches for landing.
An anti-Vietnam War protest demonstration in Los Angeles, California. Thousands of anti-war demonstrators gathered near the Los Angeles Hotel, where U.S. President Lyndon Johnson addresses a Democratic fund-raiser. Demonstrators hold banners and protest rallying for peace in Vietnam. Policemen keep a vigil. Unruly protestors scuffle with the police. Policemen arrest demonstrators. A wounded demonstrator with a cut on his head, being held by police.
Anti-American rally in Madrid, Spain during the Vietnam War. View of the Complutense University of Madrid (Universidad Complutense de Madrid Avda. de Séneca, 2 Ciudad Universitaria 28040 MADRID). Students make posters and leaflets during demonstration against U.S. action. A placard reads “NO al imperialism Yankee” (“No to Yankee imperialism”) They attend speeches. A Spanish college student speaks in front of protesters. Anti-war student activists burn an American Flag and protest on streets, against American action in the Vietnam War.
John Charles Daly stands in the Hall of Heroes, at the Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia, U.S.A. Behind him is a display containing names of the American military recipients of the Medal of Honor. He points to a section of a display listing 131 names added during the Korean War. He then moves to the latest section of the display, covering the period 1964 and subsequent, in the Vietnam War. At this point, the film begins to depict scenes from the Vietnam conflict. An American soldier holding a rifle is silhouetted against a light sky background. U.S. soldiers firing M-16 rifles. shadow cast by a Bell UH-1 Iroquois (Huey) helicopter flying overhead. Soldier firing machine gun from M113 armored personnel carrier (APC). U.S. gun crews firing 105mm howitzer; 175mm self-propelled gun; M107 Howitzer; and battery of howitzers in the field. Army troops inside a helicopter. View from below of CH-47 helicopter (Jolly Green Giant) landing and troops leaving its rear door. A patrol of American soldiers firing their weapons as they move forward. Soldiers dealing with difficult terrain. One stepping through deep mud. Infantry patrol moving and taking cover. A soldier using field radio. A UH-1 flying over palm trees. Infantry moving through jungle accompanied by M113 APC. Explosions and fire. Soldiers boarding a Huey helicopter, as the ship's gunner delivers covering fire by machine gun. Soldiers having a smoke while airborne in the helicopter.