Operation 'Jackstay' in Vung Tau, Vietnam. Several ships at anchor in Dong Tranh River. A Swift Boat underway. A 50 caliber machine gun in the boat. A life jacket hangs from the gun mount. A United States flag flies in the breeze. A crew member looks out over the water. A shoreline in the background. The Swift Boat underway en route to Cat-Lo naval base. A crew man stands on the deck. A merchant tug and a barge underway. Junk being passed in the river by Patrol Craft PCF-31. Crewmen cover the 50 caliber machine gun.
United States Army Special Forces officers in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. United States Army Captain Roger H. Donlon of Special Forces 'C' Team and Sergeant E5 James D. Coates with two Vietnamese security forces officers visit Camp Nam Dong. The men walk towards a mortar position. Two soldiers with guns on their backs prepare a mortar inside a circular trench lined with sandbags. The men standing beside the trench hold a map and discuss. Views of the officers discussing. The soldiers in the trench salute as the officers walk away from the trench.
Operation Jackstay in Vietnam. A PCF-26 (Patrol Craft Fast or Swift Boat) underway in the Dong Tran River. A man at the controls of the craft. EN2 (Engineman Second Class) Gunter is wounded during a patrol. The chief C.P. Gernigan bandages his wounded arm aboard the craft. EN2 Gunter on a 50 caliber machine gun on the stern. BMC (Chief Boatswain's Mate) on the 50 caliber machine gun. Second crewman stands in the background. He wears a helmet and an armored vest. A machine gun on another craft. A crewman with an M-16 rifle. He stands by the 50 caliber machine gun manned by Chief Boatswain's Mate. (Vietnam War period).
United States Army Special Forces officers in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. United States Army Captain Roger H. Donlon of Special Forces 'C' Team and Sergeant E5 James D. Coates with two Vietnamese security forces officers visit Camp Nam Dong. The men at the the camp. Buildings of the camp in the background. The men discuss beside a trench lined with sandbags. Two officers walk away. The other two officers stand beside the trench and discuss. A U.S. officer and a Vietnamese officer inside the trench. The officers in the trench aim a rifle and talk. The U.S. officer talking to the men in the trench. The officers preparing to leave the area.
United States Army Special Forces officers in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. United States Army Captain Roger H. Donlon of Special Forces 'C' Team and Sergeant E5 James D. Coates with two Vietnamese security forces officers visit Camp Nam Dong. The men walk towards a barbed wire fence in the camp. A sandbagged bunker beside the fence and a soldier standing on top of the bunker. The officers holding guns kneel in front of the bunker and discuss. A few men behind the fence in the background. The officers stand beside the bunker and talk. A soldier stands guard beside the wire fence. The officers come out from a trench behind him and walk up to another sandbagged bunker. The officers stand beside the bunker and discuss. The soldier stands guard in the background. The officers walk away from the bunker.
View from a U.S. Marine bunker as enemy shell explodes nearby, during the siege of Khe Sanh in 1968 during the Vietnam War. The United States Marines in the Battle of Khe Sanh firing mortars and a 105mm howitzer from their bunker. Enemy shells exploding on the tarmac, where American Air Force C-130 aircraft are parked. Marines rushing wounded comrades on stretchers, to C-130s for evacuation. Scene shifts to U.S. Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel James P. Sheehan, standing at Camp Pendleton, California. (He was a company commander in the siege at Khe Sanh.) As he describes the C-130 aircraft support operations, a contingent of marines marches past, behind him. Scene shifts to a civilian narrator standing in the Military Airlift Command (MAC) Headquarters Command Center at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois. Among other things, he describes MAC support to the Tactical Air Command in Korea. Camera focuses on MAC air routes in the vicinity of the Philippines, Japan, and Korea. Next, is seen view of airfield at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, briefly at sunset, and then at night, as pilots of the 366th Tactical Fighter Wing and their F-111 aircraft prepare to depart for Korea, in response to border tensions, in August, 1976, after North Korean forces killed two American officers ("Korean Axe Murder Incident" and resulting "Operation Paul Bunyan"). Ground crewman directs a taxiing F-111 using lighted wands. The F-111s takes off. One of them is seen landing after the 7 thousand mile flight to Korea, as Major Paul Malandrino,Jr. (unseen) of the 366th Wing, speaks about MAC's airlift support. A C-141 MAC aircraft is seen landing. View of a C-141 with tail doors open and its cargo of military equipment on the ramp behind it. Glimpse of a marine with rifle and earphones, guarding equipment on the airfield ramp. Closeups of F-111 aircraft taking off.