Aerial view showing smoke rising from a bombed jungle in the Vietnam War. Helicopters flying over a jungle just south of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone during Operation Hastings. Helicopter landing in open field. United States Marine Corp (USMC) Marines commander Major General Lowell E. English talking outside a tent with officers. Major General Lowell E. English points to a map of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone, showing where the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) forces are building up in the Vietnamese DMZ and the United States Marines positions at the beginning of Operation Hastings. United States helicopters landing near the Vietnamese DMZ. United States Marines Sikorsky H-34 helicopter landing in field. Marines run and assume prone position along a fence line, possibly the DMV. Marine Corps officer Major Donald Cook discusses how the Marines acted as Operations Hastings developed in the Vietnamese DMZ. A map of the DMZ is seen behind Major Cook. A Marine firing a gun. A United States fighter jet dropping an incendiary bomb. Marines running across the battlefield. Fairchild C-123 Provider takes off from an airfield. Sikorsky H-34 helicopter in the foreground. Dong-Ha Combat Base as seen from an aircraft cockpit. Reserve battalion unload weapons and supplies at Dong-Ha base. A tractor pulls a Howitzer. Lockheed C-130 Hercules parked on runway. Soldiers loading boxes in the back of a truck. Marines moving across dusty field. Some Marines climb into a Boeing Vertol CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter. A helicopter lifts off and flies away. Marines inside a Boeing Vertol CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter. A fighter drops bombs over a field, bombs explode upon impact. A Boeing Vertol CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter lands and a group of Marines exit rear door. The helicopter flies away. Combat scenes showing Marines fighting in the battlefield, with one throwing a grenade. Marine fires M60 machine gun while another drips oil on it to cool it down. Marine hunkered down while trying to unroll a bandage. A Marine communicates with a field telephone.
Snack bar and cafeteria of Special Services area in Dong Tam, Vietnam. Board of Vietnam Exchange Services Snack Bar and its outer view. Soldiers walk by the bar. Outer view of Vietnam Exchange Services Cafeteria and its sign board. Soldier comes out of the cafeteria. (Vietnam War period).
Film showing students at the University of California, Berkeley, principally in 1980. It also shows glimpses of Vietnam war era background events. Opening shows students on a college campus. Two of them sit and converse. Scene shifts to National Guard troops and police near the University of California campus, in May, 1969, when Governor Ronald Reagan declared a state of emergency and sent 2,200 National Guard troops into Berkeley, California. Next, students are seen handing out voting information from booths on the Berkeley campus during the 1980 U.S. Presidential elections. Students massed on campus and some having lively conversations with others. The entrance gates to the campus are seen in the background. Students moving about on the campus and some seated at outdoor tables having snacks and conversing. A student being interviewed who speaks about employment. Complete shift of scene to American soldiers jumping from a UH-1 Huey helicopter in Vietnam. President Richard Nixon waving enthusiastically in front of the Presidential helicopter. President Lyndon Johnson glad-handing spectators as he walks along the streets of a city. Glimpse of American hostages being taken from the embassy in Tehran, Iran, November 4, 1979 during Iran hostage crisis. U.S soldiers firing a howitzer field piece in Vietnam. Returning American hostages leaving an U.S.Air Force transport plane. A woman student being interviewed at Berkeley campus about the 1980 Presidential race between Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. Students seated on a long bench in a room where a picture of motion picture star, John Wayne, is displayed on a wall. A male student says Ronald Reagan has brought a new spirit into everybody in America. A Berkeley political science professor comments on the new voters. Students speaking positively about President Reagan. More views of students and voting information on campus. (Note: film is silent except for occasional interviews.)
American soldiers nail siding boards into place on the exterior of their new mess hall at the Dong Tam Base Camp in South Vietnam, during the Vietnam War. Lots of hammering is heard from other workers (unseen). A wide strip, of what appears to be fine screening or plastic, has been fastened around the structure, above the top siding boards. Camera moves back revealing the wider construction site, with several men at work. One soldier stands near an M149 (400 gallon) Water Buffalo trailer. Other wooden buildings are seen at the camp.
Activities of Mobile Riverine Force of U.S. 9th Infantry Division in Dong Tam, Mekong Delta in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Interior of the USS Colleton. Soldiers receive inoculations. A soldier has an X-ray taken.
Activities of 9th Infantry Division in Dong Tam, Vietnam. Class on patrolling. Soldiers sit and watch and other soldiers exercise firing in prone position. Soldiers enter jungle area. They cross stream on a single board and walk in jungle during practical patrolling exercise (Vietnam War period).
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