U.S. Marines at a field communication center on the White beach during Operation Piranha in Cap Batangan, Vietnam. Marines sit on the beach. A marine on the beach talks over a phone. A marine unit around the field communications center. Marines sit around on the beach. One in the foreground talks over a phone. Two small boys, one carrying a smaller child in his arms, move down the beach. A large group of civilians being huddled on the beach by the marines. All civilians are wearing black and are under heavy guard. (Vietnam War period).
Landing of U.S. Marines and offloading of vehicles during Operation Piranha in Cap Batangan, Vietnam. Marines drive mechanical mules on the dry beach area. LVTP-5s on the beach, one lowers its ramp. A mechanical mule off-loads from the LVTP-5. A corpsman bandages a woman's arm. LCM-10 (Landing Craft, Mechanized) in the surf. The marines wade through the deep surf towards the beach area. Anti-tank vehicle Ontos off-loading from an LVTP-5. (Vietnam War period).
Operation Piranha at White Beach in Cap Batangan, Vietnam. United States Marine personnel moving down combination ladder of the USS Bayfield (APA-33) with their packs and rifles. Marines board a waiting LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel) alongside. LCVP in water. (Vietnam War period).
A feature film about PBR (Patrol Boat River) at Binh Thuy Air Base, Mekong Delta, Republic of Vietnam. A camera boat approaches. American flags on the camera boats. A small sampan pass by. The stern of a PBR to a sampan along the port quarter. Vietnamese on the stern of the sampan. An interpreter talks to the Vietnamese. A PBR crewman talks to an elder woman on the sampan. South Vietnamese flags seen on the sampans. A crewman checks paperwork and he steps aboard the sampan. The Vietnamese on the stern is apparently a detainee. An injured Vietnamese being helped and bandaged on the deck of the PBR. A Vietnamese carries a wounded woman from the boat. The woman lying on the pier. Vietnamese carry off the injured woman on a stretcher. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. Army Special Forces operating near Ba Me Ga west of Ban Me Thout, Vietnam. A Special Forces Mobile Strike Force (Mike Force) soldier slits open a Vietcong rice bag. The team encounters a dying Vietcong soldier in brush. Mike Force member searches the VC's body for documents. Information about Vietcong anti-tank mines and tax collection documents are reportedly found on the VC. ( Note: It has also been reported that some elements of the Mike Force unit drove over an uncharted anti tank mine on the way back to base, after the mission, killing and wounding members of Special Forces, Australian Army Training Team Vietnam, and Montagnard strike force troopers.)
American civilians and soldiers arrive in San Francisco, California from Vietnam. Early in the Vietnam War, the first group of Americans wounded in guerrilla raids in Vietnam arrive back in San Francisco. Airplane lands on an airport. People gather at the airport to greet them. Wounded in beds on board the plane. Wounded soldiers and civilians disembark from the airplane and meet others. Civilians arrive with garlands around their necks. Cameramen record the event.