United States soldiers prepare 105mm Howitzer rounds for firing at Fire Station Base Elliot in South Vietnam. M-107 Howitzer with 175 mm gun moved into firing position. Soldier lifts projectile from its rack. Soldier removes gravel in front of the Howitzer. (Vietnam War period).
United States soldiers prepare 105mm Howitzer for firing at Fire Station Base Elliot in South Vietnam. Soldier lifts projectiles from its rack and places it next to the howitzer. U.S. Army soldiers, including one African American soldier, load and fire M-107 Howitzer. (Vietnam War period).
MAAG (Military Assistance and Advisory Group) Mission in Saigon, Vietnam. Vietnamese Honor Guards stand with rifles in their hands. Colonel Nuygen Khuong, Chief Signal Officer of Vietnam; Minister of Defense and Assistance Secretary of State, Mr Dung present during the ceremony. Colonel Nuygen reviews Honor Guard. Vietnamese flag hoisted on pole. Colonel Nuygen speaks over microphone.
MAAG (Military Assistance and Advisory Group) Mission in Saigon, Vietnam. Colonel Nuygen Khuong, Chief Signal Officer of Vietnam gives a speech reading from a paper in his hand. Vietnamese soldiers watch the ceremony. Dignitaries and United States officers in review stand. Lieutenant Colonel T Ross, Chief Signal Officer and two Signal Advisory Officers.
Rebellion flares in Hanoi, Vietnam during Indochina War. French troops shell rebel held towns and then move in for bitter in-fighting with machine guns and small arms to mop up the entrenched Vietnamese. Wounded and dead combatants in the ruins. General Jacques-Philippe LeClerc, in charge of the military operation in Indochina, and French oversea minister, Marius Moutet, inspect the area. They move in towns by jeep and army tanks. General George and others standing outside the Pasteur Hospital building (National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, 1 P. Yec Xanh, Phạm Đình Hổ, Hai Bà Trưng, Hà Nội 100000, Vietnam), which had been vandalized. Debris and wreckage in buildings. French soldier enters a trench and finds a Japanese-made helmet (World War 2 era) that was used by a Viet Minh soldier.
A South Vietnamese attack on a Red Vietcong stronghold leads to the capture of smuggled weapons south of Saigon, Vietnam. A helicopter lands near South Vietnamese soldiers. A cache of arms. Soldiers near boxes of ammunition. An International Control Commission inspects the captured smuggled weapons. (Vietnam War period).