A U.S. Special Forces ordnance demolition expert conducts a class on M-26 grenade launchers for Montagnard trainees in Bu Gia, Vietnam during Operation Switchback of the Vietnam War. SP/4 (Specialist 4th Class) Thomas Coppinger conducts a class for Montagnard trainees through two Vietnamese interpreters. Rifle grenades exploding on an impact area. The two interpreters fire M-26 rifle grenades. Explosions on the impact area.
U.S. Special Forces ordnance demolition expert SP/4 (Specialist 4th Class) Thomas Coppinger conducts a class on M26 grenade launchers for Montagnard trainees in Bu Gia, Vietnam during Operation Switchback of the Vietnam War. Montagnard trainees throwing M26 grenades. Explosions on an impact area.
Different huts which house U.S. 5th Special Forces Detachment Operations, Intelligence and Communications in Bu Gia, Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Montagnard soldiers dig an ammunition bunker. Completed ammunition bunker with bamboo spikes and barbed wire around it.
Montagnard soldiers attend a Vietnamese flag raising ceremony in Bu Gia, Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Montagnard troops in formation salute as the Vietnamese flag is being raised. The formation breaks up and the soldiers march off. A Montagnard soldier raises the Vietnamese flag.
A U.S. Army helicopter strikes Vietcong targets near Soc Trang, Vietnam during the Vietnam War. A U.S. Army UH-1B Iroquois helicopter in flight over a flat terrain. A waist gunner with his M-60 machine gun. Aerial view of green flat terrain. Smoke rises from hits being made on the ground. M-60 gun barrels protruding out from the UH-1B in flight and firing towards the ground.
USS Independence underway in the Mediterranean Sea. Sailors aboard USS Independence. President of Cyprus Makarios III comes aboard the ship. An officer greets him. President Makarios III reviews troops on the deck. A Piasecki HUP-1 Retriever (H-25 Army Mule) tandem rotor helicopter lifts off from the deck. A ship underway at sea. President Makarios and others on the bridge of the ship as they look seawards.