MACV (US Military Assistance Command, Vietnam) Advisory Team assists South Vietnamese soldiers in the evacuation of refugees from Kontum during the Nguyen Hue Campaign of the Vietnam War. A U.S. Army Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter takes off from a helipad in the area. South Vietnamese soldiers talk to Vietnamese refugees. Refugee men, women and children await evacuation. Women and children run towards a CH-47 and board the helicopter. The chopper takes off. Guns positioned on the other side of a barb wired fence. Refugees wait their turn for evacuation. U.S. officers and soldiers supervise and discuss the operation nearby. Refugees board a U.S. Army Bell UH-1D Iroquois helicopter. The MACV team and U.S. soldiers help them get strapped in. The pilot in the cockpit. The chopper takes off.
MACV (US Military Assistance Command, Vietnam) Advisory Team assists South Vietnamese soldiers in the evacuation of refugees from Kontum during the Nguyen Hue Campaign of the Vietnam War. A U.S. Army Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter carrying a sling load of rice. Vietnamese refugees sitting in a compound as they await evacuation. Refugees board a U.S. Army Bell UH-1D Iroquois helicopter. Refugee women and children in traditional Vietnamese hats sitting in the compound. Refugees board a CH-47. The helicopter takes off.
2nd Battalion (Airborne), 503 Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade (Sep) prepares for a mission. Soldiers use camouflage stick on each other's faces. They wait next to helicopters. Bell UH-1D and Bell UH-1B "Huey" helicopters take off from Bien Hoa Air Force Base, South Vietnam. Ground view of a line of UH-1B helicopters in flight. Point of view shot inside helicopter from just behind the cockpit of a "Huey" shows a number of other helicopters flying ahead. Helicopters fly above green fields. (Vietnam War period).
View of parking ramp at Tan Son Nhut Air Base (Than Son Nhat International Airport, Trường Sơn, Phường 2, Tân Bình, Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, Vietnam) in Saigon, Vietnam. A jet airplane seen climbing in distance. A C-130 transport parked on the ramp. Scene shifts to front of passenger building, with flags of various airlines (including Pan Am, Air America, Thai Airways, and Swire Group/Cathay Pacific Airways) flying atop the building. "Saigon Tan Son Nhut Airport" is lettered across the building. Striped awnings cover two doorways. Two utility vehicles are parked in front. Closeup of three airline flags.
Viet Cong Prisoners and civilians cared on Navy hospital ship USS Repose (AH-16) in Vietnam. Prisoners sit in Saigon. VC Regiment soldiers stand behind them. Prisoners wear slips in their neck. Rifles displayed with bullets and other ammunitions. Soldiers blind fold prisoners. A helicopter lands on ship. A medic examines a patient. Medic with a child. Viet children on bed. Female patient feeds food to a child. Nurse and patients walk on ship and watch. Aerial view of hospital ship. Red Cross sign on the sides of the ship. (Vietnam War period).
Vietnamese refugees with torches during a protest rally in Saigon, Vietnam. Women activists in the rally. A man sits with a rosary in his hand, cross attached to it. Effigies of Ho Chi Minh lay. Old women watches, effigies on fire. A woman watches. (Vietnam War period).