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.
A U.S. Air Force aircraft hits targets along a canal in Toy Bien in Nam Phan Province during Vietnam War in Vietnam. Aerial view of the fields in Toy Bien in Nam Phan Province in Vietnam. Black smoke due to bomb explosions mushrooms into the air. White smoke in the nearby areas on the field. Napalm bombs, White Phosphorus bombs, and 20 mm ammunition being dropped on target areas along the side of the canal by U.S. Army aircraft. Smoke spreads over the bursts along the whole length of the canal. Fields on both sides of the canal. Smoke rises from napalm burst on the field.
Operation Seafloat in the Cua Lon River, Vietnam. A mobile base in the river. American and South Vietnamese flags on the mobile base. A large field with the mobile base. A part of ATC seen nearby. Village rubble along the water edge. A guard on duty near the destroyed village. A barge complex (mobile base) in the background. The barge complex in the mid river. A large sampan underway in the river. South Vietnam flags seen on sampans. The sampan is tied to the barge complex. Other boats approach. Vietnamese in sampans alongside the barge. Republic of Vietnam personnel from the barge checks people and sampans. Two women on the sampan tied to the barge. Two men on the barge. Sampans in the background. Two USN (United States Navy) men work on a 50 caliber machine gun on a barge. The sampan pulls away from the side of the barge.
Operation Seafloat in the Cua Lon River,Vietnam. Armed Vietnamese personnel board PCFs (Patrol Craft Fast, also called Swift Boats) along side a barge. A gun mounted aboard a PCF. Men on the PCF. A USN (United States Navy) man in a flak jacket and helmet works inside the cabin of the vessel. A barge personnel on deck works with weapons. Vietnamese soldiers clean and oil M-16 rifles on the PCF. American personnel with M-16 rifles. A U.S. flag seen fluttering in the background. Heavy foliage on the riverbank as seen during a fire fight. Vietnamese soldiers move into heavy brush. An RVN (Republic of Vietnam) personnel moves out of a cabin on the river craft. Armed PCF moves slowly up the river. River craft at bank of the river. Other crafts seen. A part of the bow of the PCF in the river appears to have been shot away. (Vietnam War period).