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The Battle of Fire Support Base Ripcord, the last major engagement in the Vietnam War
Elements of the U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division battle North Vietnamese regular Army forces at Fire Support Base Ripcord in the A Shau Valley, South Vietnam, in the last major confrontation of the Vietnam War. View of Fire Support Base Ripcord from inside an arriving helicopter. An OH-6A Cayuse / AH-6J (Little Bird) approaching to land at the Fire Support Base. The helicopter lands on a heli-pad. Another OH-6A is parked in the background. Scene shifts to a Bell UH-1 Iroquois (Huey) helicopter leaving the Fire Support Base. It has, white stripe on the top, behind greenhouse, and red dot on the tail boom. This identifies it as belonging to A Company, 158th Aviation Battalion (Assault Helicopter) "Ghost Riders." Views of much work going on to fortify the Fire Support Base. An American F-4 Phantom jet fighter aircraft flies overhead at hight speed and drops ordnance on a nearby hilltop. View from Ripcord Base of fire and smoke rising from the target. Soldiers setting up Claymore mines along side of the base, for nighttime protection. More views of fire and smoke at the target hill. A soldier sitting atop Support Base structure, speaking on radio telephone. Closeup shows "Screaming Eagle" patch of the 101st Airborne Division on his left shoulder. More views of defensive work going on, including the setting up of several 155mm howitzers by Battery B 2nd 319th Artillery. A UH-1 flies low overhead. A Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter is seen approaching with supplies suspended underneath in a net sling. Soldiers placing parcels in a UH-1 with engine running, about to depart. Glimpse of hooch with sign reading "FSB Ripcord" and displaying a large ace of spades. A CH-47 descending closeby. More views of bombs exploding on the neighboring hilltop.
Units of the U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division defend Fire Support Base Ripcord,during the Vietnam war
Elements of the U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division defending Fire Support Base Ripcord in the A Shau Valley, South Vietnam, in the last major battle of the Vietnam War. View from Base Ripcord toward wooded hills from which the North Vietnamese 324B Division is laying siege. It is extremely windy causing canvas covers to flap. The camera is focused on a hilltop where enemy positions are located. Bombs explode there, dropped by U.S.aircraft (unseen). At times large clouds of white smoke rise from the site.
Vietcong civilians make mines from scrap material and gun powder in South Vietnam during Operation Junction City.
Operation Junction City in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. A Vietcong man cuts a metal sheet with a cutter for making mines. Scrap material lying on the ground. Other men use scarp material and mold them into different shapes. Tress in the background. The men use hammer and mold the scrap material for making the mines. Two boys make gunpowder balls and arrange them.
Vietcong women cultivate crops in South Vietnam during Operation Junction City.
Vietnamese locals in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Wooden boxes stacked on a grassy field. Two Vietcong women at a farm with one of them with a scarf on her head. The woman digs the field with a plow and the other removes the mud with her hands. The women in the farm cultivate crops. The women at work in the farm.
Vietcong soldiers carry a MK 82 bomb and a soldier removes the fuse of the bomb in South Vietnam.
Operation Junction City in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Vietcong soldiers carry a dud MK82 bomb in a sling from a wooded area. A soldier removes the fuse and the detonator from the bomb. A soldier plants homemade mines on a trail. Vietcong soldiers dig a hole on the trail and put the mines. They cover the mines with mud. The soldiers digging the holes on the trail
A boy and a woman store hand grenades in a foxhole and Vietcong soldiers clean their weapons in South Vietnam.
Operation Junction City in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. A bunker in a wooded area. A boy and a woman store hand grenades in a foxhole. The boy passes the grenades to the woman in the foxhole. The boy with a shovel in his hand. Vietcong soldiers dig a tunnel. The soldiers seated on the ground. They clean and repair weapons.