National Day parade in Vietnam. Vietnamese officer in a jeep as he moves past the review stand during an annual parade to commemorate the overthrow of Diem regime in Vietnam. Vietnamese soldiers carrying flags march past the stands. Officers review the parade in the background. Men and women of the Montagnard group march past the stands. Viet police, civil guards, rangers and Marines march past the stands. Vietnamese cavalry units, sailors march with a military police officer in the foreground. Flags as United States Navy CH-34 helicopters and 0-1 planes fly overhead. American soldiers of 173rd Brigade carrying the flags of United States march past the stands. American sailors, marines and airmen parade past. A military band marches at the parade. (Vietnam War period).
National Day parade in Vietnam. Flags of different nations hoisted as aircraft fly over head at an annual parade to commemorate the overthrow of Diem regime in Vietnam. High ranking Vietnamese officers and United States ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge in the review stand. Vietnamese tanks, trucks and communication vans pass in review. Helicopters and jets fly overhead during the parade. Trucks with Vietnamese soldiers tow artillery pieces past the stand. (Vietnam War period).
United States 1st Cavalry Division soldiers during phase II of Operation Mosby in Vietnam. Soldiers of United States 1st Cavalry division work on a M-102 105 mm Howitzer on a field in Pleiku, Vietnam. A soldier speaks on a hand radio as soldiers fire the 105 mm Howitzer. Howitzer being fired and smoke rises. A plane in flight in the background. United States Army CH-47 Chinook helicopter landed on a field as a M-274 mule loaded with boxes comes off the helicopter. Supply boxes being unloaded from the helicopter by soldiers. (Vietnam War period).
Activities of Lieutenant Colonel Preston S. Flanagan of U.S. 31st TFW (Tactical Fighter Wing). Flanagan flies the same C-47 Skytrain from Tuy Hoa Air Base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War, which he had flown during World War II in Africa and Asia. Colonel Flanagan and a copilot in the cockpit of C-47D. Colonel Flanagan is interviewed. He speaks about his experiences in this particular C-47, his duties in World War II and presently in the Vietnam War.
Operations of United States 1st Infantry Division in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. An ambulance backs up to a field hospital. Wounded Vietcong prisoners outside the hospital. Dead Americans are carried from the ambulance on litters. The wounded are carried from the ambulance. U.S. Army Lieutenant General Jonathan O.Seaman talks with a wounded soldier at the field hospital. An officer and an ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam) interpreter questions wounded Vietcong prisoners.
The activities of the United States Navy in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. United States Navy Sea, Air and Land Forces (SEAL) members in Vietnam. Three SEAL officers get aboard a United States Army UH-1B Iroquois helicopter. A member of the SEAL recon team talks to pilot and direct him by a map. Helicopter in flight over heavy jungle in Rung Sat area along the Lon Tau river. Aerial view of a barren patch of ground amidst the jungle growth, taken during the recon. Small tributaries of the Lon Tau river. Mekong area, river in the background.