United States Army soldiers of First Infantry Division check a hut in a village during operation activities against Vietnam. A Vietnamese woman opens the door. Two children are seen with the woman. AVRN interpreter talks with suspect. A soldier talks on the radio. Soldiers walk on the narrow road along the canal. (Vietnam War period).
United States Army soldier of First Infantry Division exhumes contents from a raised grave crypt during operation activities in Vietnam. Soldiers move through jungle and bushes. Soldiers approach a hut. ARVN interpreter questions a suspect while United States soldiers look on. Soldiers move across the field. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. 20th Helicopter Squadron, Special Forces personnel and Montagnard troops aboard U.S. Army UH-1F Iroquois helicopters en route to a remote village in Vietnam to pick up a suspected Vietcong prisoner during the Vietnam War. Troops leave a UH-1F helicopter as it lands. They run into a jungle. The UH-1F helicopter takes off. The UH-1F unloading troops. Special Forces personnel and Montagnard troops enter the village and bring the prisoner from a hut to the UH-1F. More troops leave the UH-1F. The UH-1F takes off. Aerial view of the village. UH-1Fs land on the field and troops leave a helicopter. Suspected Vietcong prisoner is marched by a Special Forces personnel. UH-1Fs take off.
American aid to South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, speaking at a Gettysburg College commencement, on April 4, 1959, notes, among other things, that the cost of defending freedom must be paid in many places. And he mentions Berlin,Vietnam,and the Middle East. Scene shifts to South Vietnam where recruits are being signed up for its armed forces. Glimpse of a U.S. Army Lieutenant advisor, in sunglasses, smoking a pipe, on a crowded street. Local people in the area. Scene shifts to 1960. Two U.S. Army Ranger advisors, in full brim hats (3214D-M41), stand near as a contingent of Montagnard troops boards a train. View from armed guard standing on front of train as it travels along a single rail in deserted area. A sudden explosion occurs on the train track about 100 yards ahead. Next machine gun fire is seen coming from an armored gun turret on the train. View from inside the armored compartment, as the gun fires, spraying the surrounding area with bullets, creating two explosions nearby. South Vietnamese soldiers (ARVN) pursuing enemy in wooded areas. One, down deep in underbrush, is firing a machine gun. Several others are engaging enemy with small arms. Huts being blown up. ARVN troops returning from an engagement, carrying wounded on stretchers. Year, 1961, and an official American Government airplane is seen. It carries General Maxwell Taylor (in mufti) who was sent by President John F. Kennedy. Taylor is seen being interviewed on the airport ramp. A U.S. Air Force officer training young Vietnamese pilot trainees. A Vietnamese student pilot in a T-28 training airplane.
Montagnard tribesmen cut weeds from a field in Vietnam. Tribal huts shown. The Montagnards wear lion clothes. Hills seen in the distance. Fields with scattered fields. Vietnamese children wearing conical hats lead a herd of cattle on an unpaved path.
Aerial view of 25th Infantry Division Headquarters Base Camp in Cu Chi, North West of Saigon, Vietnam. View of 'Tropic Lightning' insignia on ground.