United States Army doctor and medics treat an injured soldier’s leg in bed during the Vietnam War. The patient winces and reacts to pain. Doctor applies gauze on soldier’s leg. Military officials salute to a coffin draped with the American flag. Soldiers carry caskets of dead American soldiers, killled in action, into transport aircraft. Young United States soldiers board a plane. African American soldier assists another soldier reversing a motorized cart. Aircraft takes off. Bell UH-1 Iroquois Huey helicopter flying at sunset. Sunset in Vietnam.
United States Marine Corps trucks stranded on dirt road in rural Vietnam during the Vietnam War. United States Marines sitting on the back of a truck. Other trucks are carrying supplies and equipment. Gun truck and other U.S. military vehicles crossing a wooden bridge. Other USMC vehicles begin to move and cross the bridge one by one. Sign over gate reads “Esso Standard Eastern Inc.”. View of a dirt road as seen from a moving vehicle. Soldiers sitting on a parked truck are seen. Moving military trucks on the road.
South Vietnamese farmers spray rice field with pesticide before the U.S. Vietnam War. Farmers pound rice using a foot-powered rice pounder. Steam shovel bucket scoops rubble. Vietnamese miners strip mining coal. They push a cart filled with coal. A man extracts natural rubber from a tree. Workers at a latex processing facility. South Vietnamese women working at a textile factory with a large loom. United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower addresses the graduates at Gettysburg College in April 4, 1959. “We have learned, too, that the cost of defending freedom--of defending America--must be paid in many forms and in many places. They are assessed in all parts of the world--in Berlin, in Viet-Nam, in the Middle East--here at home.” President Eisenhower said. South Vietnamese men line up to enlist and gather their uniforms. Newly enlisted South Vietnamese soldiers climb into a truck for transport.
Flares and tracers streak through dark sky. Mini gun from AC-119G Gunship fires shots and illuminator at Phu Cat Air Base, Vietnam.
Tracers fired from U.S. AC-119G Gunship aircraft streak through dark night sky at Phu Cat Air Base, Vietnam. View of fire shots and illuminators.
United States AC-119K stinger at Phan Rang Air Base in Vietnam. Airman checks bullet belts in box. Engine exhausts at night. Night Observation Device (NOD) Operator. Tracers at night. Parachute flares descend.