The Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War. UH-1B helicopter in flight overhead. MPs (Military Police) and the U.S. troops search the area. EOD (Explosive Ordnance Demolition) men remove explosives from bodies of dead Vietcong on U.S. embassy ground in Saigon, Vietnam. MPs bring suspected Vietcong out of building. Trooper searches other areas. A truck pulls up in street. Dead Vietcong in street. Civilians walk about. Soldiers under cover of M-48 tank of the 1st Infantry Division. Soldiers remove bodies of fallen Americans from street as the M-48 moves forward.
Tanks at barrier on bridge. Tank swings turret and fires. Bazooka team loads bazooka and fires. Army of the Republic of Vietnam troopers move up a road and run past across cement causeway towards buildings. Tank fires machine gun at wooded area across river. ARVN troops by the tank. Vietnamese on tank directing fire on phones. Vietnamese ARVN soldiers wearing red berets. (Vietnam War period).
Crowd gathered. Refugees wait to return their homes in the 8th Precinct, Cholon, Saigon, Vietnam, in the wake of U.S and ARVN battles with North Vietnamese soldiers and Viet Cong . ARVN soldiers direct them. Men on motorcycles and bicycles. Children on bridge look on. ARVN soldier questions occupants of car on a bridge. (Vietnam War period).
ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam) soldier talks with a civilian on scooter. Soldiers guard street. Barbed wire road barrier. Soldiers stand by and lay under trucks. American soldiers at M-48 tanks in street. (Vietnam War period).
ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam) soldiers carry wounded person wrapped in blanket on wooden stretcher followed by refugees. Buildings in the background. Large number of Vietnamese refugee men, women and children stand in dirt area. Burned remains of destroyed M-48 tank in dirt area. RFK-60 rough terrain forklift backs up and carries conex box across the area. RFK lifts another conex box. Second forklift carries civilian Ford Bronco vehicle. First forklift repeats the action. Forklift tries to move up front ramp of beached LCU (Landing Craft Utility). (Vietnam War period, during Tet Offensive).
Vietnamese civilians walk along road, carrying their belongings. AVRN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam) soldiers on road. Sign on side of the building reads, 'HUE MACV COMPUND'. Many marines stand and walk in area. Jeeps and trucks near Hue MACV Compound building. The U.S. flag on a building. View above MACV Compound. Trees in area. The U.S. flag and white smoke rises in the background. (Vietnam War, Tet Offensive period).