U.S. 1st Marine Aircraft Wing in action in South Vietnam. Ground troops about 20 meters away from the enemy. 1st Marine Aircraft Wing Headquarter is contacted. Personnel at air base takes the information about location. Pilots are briefed by a briefing officer. He says three runs on target and last man calls off target. Pilots and crew run towards planes. They sit in F-4 Phantom and A-4 Sky Hawks. Crafts taxi out of revetments and take off. Ground troops fire. Bombers drop bombs on enemy targets. Fire due to explosion. Marine Forward Air Controller informs the base about accurate bombing. Ground troops move forward. Viet civilians walk on road. (Vietnam War period).
United States President Lyndon B. Johnson announcing his appointment of Thurgood Marshall as the first African American to become a justice in the United States Supreme Court. Johnson notes that, "the senate willing, he will become associate justice to succeed justice Clark." Various still images of Thurgood Marshall's career in court. An African American man notes, "now, a new generation of Thurgood Marshalls must struggle to make the constitution live."
View through cockpit window as United States Army 12th Air Commando aircraft (Fairchild C-123 Provider) together in formation flight, over "The Trace", a ten-mile strip of land that lies between Con Thien and Gia Linh, Vietnam as part of Operation Ranch Hand during the Vietnam War. A Fairchild C-123 Provider descends to prepare to spray defoliant agent over Vietnam. View of pilot wearing hard helmet taken from behind the cockpit. View of “The Trace” (between Con Thien and Gia Linh) from the cockpit of the Fairchild C-123 Provider.
American soldiers of the 1st Brigade, 7th Cavalry speak to Vietnamese farmers in jungle of Que Son Valley during Operation Wallowa in the Vietnam War. Another Vietnamese farmer, wearing headscarf, approaches the group, escorted by another American soldier. Vietnamese elder farmers talking. Vietnamese farmers accompany American troops through the jungle. American soldiers, some wearing clear plastic to keep dry, walk through forested village and dense jungle bushes.
United States soldiers of the 1st Brigade, 7th Cavalry wade through muddy river in Que Son Valley during the Vietnam War as part of Operation Wallowa. View of legs wading through the muddy river. A United States Army helicopter (Bell UH-1 Iroquois “Huey”) lands in farm as Vietnamese farmers stand back.
A United States African-American soldier of the 1st Brigade, 7th Cavalry gestures to the Vietnamese farmers and their children to get out of their hut in Que Son Valley during the Vietnam War as part of Operation Wallowa. A white soldier directs the Vietnamese villagers away from their hut. The Vietnamese stand behind bushes with other villagers one by one. Vietnamese woman holds her infant son. The infant son’s hair is shaved except for a small spot of hair near the forehead, in Da A Fu or "A Fu" Chinese style.