Scattered dead bodies of Vietcong soldiers lay on ground in a U.S. Army base. Badly wounded corpses with blood are seen. Blood splatters all over the ground. Belongings of the soldiers like sandals lay on ground near the corpses.
Broad view of the valley in which the Phu Cat base is taking shape during construction. Many structures are already complete. Hills visible in distance. Areas of newly cleared earth visible. Carpenters seen on roof of a building being framed, in a row of wooden buildings. Closeup of U.S. Airmen (members of 819th Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineers, AKA RED HORSE). They are installing corrugated asbestos cement roofing sheets on a new building. View of Airmen on ground handing roofing sheets up to installers. View of a man in fatigues and cap smoking a cigarette, as he watches the airmen work. (He wears no military insignia, and is possibly a civilian working with the construction consortium: RMK-BRJ (Raymond International & Morrison-Knudsen, Brown & Root & J.A. Jones Construction.) The Airmen of 819th pause for the camera, then reach out and install some more roofing panels.
U.S. 3rd Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division base camp operations in Phu Bai near Hue, Vietnam. Truck convoy enters gate of the camp. Soldiers wave from truck. Vietnamese young boys and girls fill sandbags. Soldiers look on. Soldier load sandbags onto a truck. (Vietnam War period. This camp was later named Camp Eagle in March 1969).
U.S. 3rd Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division base camp operations in Phu Bai near Hue, Vietnam. Soldiers set up an antenna at a command post. Sandbags and tents in the background. Soldiers set up poles. Soldiers connect poles. Soldier attacks at a cable with an instrument. (Vietnam War period. This camp was later named Camp Eagle in March 1969).
Soldiers of the 221st Signal Company Vietnam have military payment certificates (MPC) exchanged at their headquarters in Long Binh Vietnam as part of a country wide general order. Soldiers in a line. A soldier with a typewriter creates a receipt. The soldiers with old (MPC) currency notes takes the receipt and proceeds towards the next officer. A soldier counts his notes at the typist's desk. (Vietnam War period).
United States Army CH-21 helicopter also known as flying banana, flies over trees and rice paddy fields in Vietnam. The helicopter is part of the 121st Aviation Company (Air Mobil Light), (formerly the 93rd Transportation Company - Light Helicopter) based in Soc Trang, Vietnam. It lands and injured Vietnamese civilians are unloaded from the helicopter and put into a military jeep. CH-21 prepares to move away and lifts off. (Vietnam War period).