Activities of the U.S. Navy Coastal Division aboard Swift Boats in Vietnam. A soldier on the Swift Boat checks the identification of personnel of fishing boats. One man picks up an M-16 Rifle. Another man looks through some papers in a plastic bag. Boat at a high speed run. Swift Boat tied up to the Mother Ship. Interior view of the quarters of a Swift Boat. Flags fly from the stern of a boat. Swift Boat moves out in the bay in background. Stern view of a LCM (Mike Boat) and Swift Boat underway. Hilly terrain seen beyond the bay. Starboard quarter view of PCF (Patrol Craft Fast) or Swift Boat docks at pier. (Vietnam War period).
Activities aboard PBRs (Patrol Boat River) during Operation Giant Sling Shot in Vietnam. A crewman scrubs down the deck of a PBR. Another PBR drifts. Trees alongside a riverbank. Vietnamese on the riverbank. Tracers go through the sky during a fire fight between the PBRs and the North Vietnamese Army at night. A PBR underway at a high speed. Tracers seen in the background. (Vietnam War period).
Activities aboard PBRs (Patrol Boat River) during Operation Giant Sling Shot in Vietnam. A gunner on board a PBR dons a flak jacket (Soldier's last name is Pease, seen on jacket). Other crewmen stands behind him. A .50 caliber machine gunner at his post in a helmet and a flak jacket. Hands of the machine gunner arms his gun. The PBR in a river. Smoke rises from the river bank (Vietnam War period).
U.S. soldiers of 5th Battalion, 12th Infantry, 199th Light Infantry Brigade in Vietnam. An M113 APC (Armored Personnel Carrier) arrives at a fire base with Christmas mail. The soldiers gather around the APC. Packages and letters are distributed to the men by a soldier atop the M113. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. soldiers of 5th Battalion, 12th Infantry, 199th Light Infantry Brigade in Vietnam. The soldiers gather around an APC (Armored Personnel Carrier) at a fire base. Packages and letters are distributed to the men by a soldier atop the M113 APC. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. soldiers of 5th Battalion, 12th Infantry, 199th Light Infantry Brigade in Vietnam. The soldiers receive their Christmas mail and packages. They disperse and walk to a bunker which has a decorated Christmas tree on the top of sandbags. An M113 Armored Personnel Carrier passes by. A soldier sits on the sandbags. He opens and reads a Christmas card. Then he opens packages. Other soldiers open packages. An African American soldier smiles and shakes two packages trying to guess what is inside. The Christmas tree on the sandbags of a bunker. (Vietnam War period).