U.S. 3rd Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division operations at Phu Bai Combat Base near Hue, Vietnam. Empty dump trucks enter the base. Airport at Phu Bai. View of Phu Bai combat base. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. 3rd Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division operations at Phu Bai Combat Base near Hue, Vietnam. Aircraft taxis on runway at airport in Phu Bai. A jeep backs up. Vehicles travel on a road. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. 3rd Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division operations at Phu Bai Combat Base near Hue, Vietnam. Jeeps travel on a road leading to airport at Phu Bai. Civilian and army vehicles move on the road. Entrance to Camp Holmes. Camp Holmes sign. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. 82nd Airborne Division operations at Phu Bai Combat Base near Hue, Vietnam. Army jeep and other vehicle travel on a road near Phu Bai Combat Base. Rough terrain. (Vietnam War period).
Activities of U.S. troops during the Tet Offensive in Vietnam. Three troopers are part of a mortar crew. A rocket being placed in a mortar. The mortar is fired. The mortar crew positioned amongst rubble fire mortar. Men in the background work to unload more rockets or mortar rounds from boxes. A partially sunken landing craft. Two troopers hide next to a building with rifles. U.S. forces behind stone wall fire rifles. Men behind the wall with M-16s. U.S. and ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam) forces next to buildings, move ahead. A man with a rocket in his hand. A U.S. soldier fires an M-16 around the corner of a building. The soldiers move forward. (Vietnam War period).
Excerpt from film entitled "Counterattack- Marine Air Ground Team," about U.S. Marines in the Vietnam War. Marines are seen walking cautiously across irrigation ditches in cultivated region of South Vietnam. Scene shifts to one marine looking down at a hole where smoke is rising at the base of a berm. Vietnamese families evacuating their village where marines are burning houses and huts. View from riverbank strung with barbed wire, where marines are relaxing while gunfire is heard and black smoke rises from fires burning across the river. Next, a city is seen jammed with Vietnamese refugees with their belongings (some being assisted by ARVN soldiers) making their way through the crowds. A fallen civilian seen on the ground, victim of the Viet Cong (VC). Buildings and places of worship severely damaged by the VC. A bearded old Vietnamese man wearing a non la (conical hat) and smoking a cigarette, is questioned by a U.S. soldier. (Narrator says civilians are reluctant to say much for fear of reprisals.) Marines walking slowly through a village, and then through areas of trees and brush, open areas, and dense jungle. View of underbelly of a U.S. jet fighter bomber in flight over water, carrying two BLU-10 250 lb Napalm Bombs. A Marine A-4 Skyhawk jet aircraft dives down and drops a bomb that explodes with large fireball and black smoke. Closeup of an A-4 in flight. View of pilot in cockpit and sound of conversation with ground controllers. Pilot asks if there are any more requests from the "grunts." Anachronistic Inserted images of two Marine F-4 aircraft from VMFA 232 (Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 232). They display "Red Devil" insignia on their sides. (They flew ground support in F-4s from Chu Lai Air base, Vietnam, commencing 1969.) View shifts to Marines "Grunts" in sandy area, with one communicating by radio. Next, a jet fighter bomber swoops down and unloads bombs that explode in succession on the ground. Marines in heavily sandbagged trenches. A jet fighter flies low overhead at very high speed. Another succession of bomb bursts is seen. Sea-going Marines arrive and exit Boeing CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters, at landing zone. Views of Marines exiting the choppers and then a variety of views of CH-46s in flight. Closeup of one in flight. View of interior, with a squad of Marines, inside, in battle gear. CH-46s landing and taking off.