New class of replacements go through the 3 day course at the 1st Air Cavalry Division Combat Training Center in Vietnam. Replacements walk from range to training area. A board showing 'First Team Combat Reaction Course Training Area'. Another board reads 'Welcome Hanoi Village'. Soldiers walk under the sign. Soldiers in dense forest, they look for mines and traps. Instructor addresses soldiers while holding a class in forest, on mines and booby traps. (Vietnam War period).
New class of replacements go through the 3 day course at the 1st Air Cavalry Division Combat Training Center in Vietnam. Cheiu Hoi moves through barbed wire in sapper demonstration. He disconnects wires from a Claymore mine. (Vietnam War period).
A Refugee Settlement Camp south of Dak To in South Vietnam. Colonel Everrett A. Stoutner, Deputy Commander, U.S. Army 3rd Brigade 25th Infantry Division, and officers visit the refugee camp. Major Bong, Chief of Camp, RVN Army, assembles the refugees. Major Bong briefs visiting dignitaries and takes the group around. The visitors and camp workers distribute candy and soap to the refugees. Girl sifting rice. The Camp site with Montagnard refugees showing living quarters of crudely constructed make shift tents. (Vietnam War period).
A Refugee Settlement Camp south of Dak To in South Vietnam. Colonel Everrett A. Stoutner, Deputy Commander, U.S. Army 3rd Brigade 25th Infantry Division, and officers at he refugee camp. Major Bong, Chief of Camp, RVN Army, assembles the refugees. Major Bong briefs visiting dignitaries and takes the group around. Children in a line. Montagnard refugees outside their crudely constructed living quarters. Mothers with their children. Soldiers with the children. The visitors and camp workers distribute candy and soap to the refugees. Thin and skinny children stand around the soldiers. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. Marines in Vietnam. A Chaplain joins U.S. Marines for religious services during a brief lull in the fighting. An altar made of ammunition boxes and a homemade chapel. Marines gather around for the mass. They listen carefully to the Chaplain. Communion is shared on a blasted hill. A Marine holds the wafers and wine. Soldiers aboard a troopship in the Mekong River. A GI covered in monsoon mud. He washes up in the river water. (Vietnam War period).
Regarding the struggle of the South Vietnamese people against Vietcong forces during the Vietnam war. South Vietnamese people on Railway station in Vietnam. Scene of a sabotaged train after attack, derailed and on its side. Children study in school. Teacher teaches. Scientists experiment in a laboratory. A nun teaches in a school. A soldier pushes his gun out from among the shrubs and shoots. Nuns in service of injured people. Scene of graveyard. Doctor checks patient. Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem on visit of a hospital. He sees injured patients. Guerrillas stand after surrender. Guns, rifles and grenades on display. Children play in a school. Honoring the dead by presenting a garland on their casket. South Vietnamese soldiers salute dead.