White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico with two telescopic domes. Open ground and mountain terrain in the background. Door of one of the telescopic dome opens at dusk. Man walks out of the dome and walks across.
Operation New Life in Vietnam. Major General Harry W. Brooks, Jr. inspects Refugee Processing Center facilities. Refugees walk in the camp area. An officer briefs the General. A board reads 'Camp Commander, 45th Spt Group Refugee Affairs Office.' General Brooks along with the officer comes out of the office. They inspect the area. The General and the officer get into a car and drive away.
Operation New Life in Vietnam. General Harry Brooks, Junior at the Refugee Processing Center. General brooks in a meeting along with two officers. He points at a map and briefs the officers. An officer listens while smoking a cigarette.
Operation New Life in Vietnam. United States carpenters construct a wooden framework for a building. Officers converse with each other. An officer's T-shirt reads Bravo Wolfhounds. A board in the background reads 'Operation New Life'.
Operation New Life in Vietnam. A board reads 'Freight Terminal Department, Naval Supply Depot'. Wooden makeshift shower facilities. A Red Cross flag flutters on a pole. United States officers seated inside a tent. Number of wheelchairs next to the tent.
The freighter SS Transcolorado (chartered by the U.S. Military Sealift Command, as a civilian cargo ship, designated T-AK-2005) arrives in Guam carrying at-risk South Vietnamese refugees who will be temporarily housed there under Operation New Life. (Later, most will be transferred to the United States under Operation New Arrivals.) Views of the refugees, including many children, on the deck of the ship. U.S. Marines carry a sick, or injured person from the ship on a litter. Families descend gangplank to the pier, where they are guided to hastily set up reception center. Grocery carts are employed to assist refugees carrying belongings. Local people line up to distribute items, including flip flops, to the refugees, as they pass along the pier. A merchant marine sailor assists one of the families. A woman dressed in white intercepts a Vietnamese woman carrying a small child, and directs her to a tent set up as a "Baby Center." (Many tents are seen in the background.) Inside the Baby Center, reception workers prepare food and items needed for baby care. Several Vietnamese refugee women sit on a bench in the tent, with their babies.