Flood relief operations being carried on in Vietnam food being distributed to people rendered homeless due to heavy monsoon rains causing floods in Mekong delta. Vietnamese people in dugout boats at the harbor as they prepare to leave after getting their food supplies. A boat moves away, women sit in a boat with their supply bags. People gathered around the boats at the coast. Soldiers give a food bag to a Vietnamese girl. Men wade through muddy water and load their food bags onto dug out boats. (Vietnam War period).
Review of conflicts involving U.S. from World War 2 to 1970. A U.S. soldier with rifle and binoculars, on guard. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler speaks in Germany to mass audience. German mobilization and blitzkrieg. U.S. troops firing small arms on island in Pacific, battling Japanese. U.S. soldiers on half-track firing artillery. Explosive destruction of Nazi swastika and Eagle symbol on top of building in Zeppelin Field, Nuremberg, Germany. General Douglas MacArthur stands as Japanese General signs surrender documents aboard USS Missouri, ending World War II. Times Square in New York City on Victory over Japan Day (VJ Day) marking end of World War 2. American troops firing artillery and small arms in Korean War. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev speaking at the United Nations. Newspaper headlines about postwar Berlin Crisis. Soviet missiles on display in military parade in Red Square in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union. Soviet General Georgy Zhukov and Nikita Khrushchev, at Kremlin, reviewing the parade. Cuban President Fidel Castro giving a speech. A newspaper headline reading: "Khrushchev orders removal of missiles" ending the Cuban Missile Crisis. Soviet cargo ship with covered missiles on its deck. Red flag with image of Lenin and message: 'Partido Communista Dominicano' and a crowd chanting support for the Communist party in the Dominican Republic. Communist Chinese people marching with massed flags in the People’s Republic of China. Chairman Mao Zedong waving to a crowd of young supporters and Red Guards in China as they chant. A United States soldier in South Vietnam during Vietnam War looks through binoculars and then walks carrying his M-16 rifle. A map of Vietnam.
VNAF helicopter pilots at Ton Son Nhut Airport. They bid farewell to families and friends inside airport terminal. Officials check boarding passes at terminal gate. Bags of VNAF candidates are also inspected. They board plane. American commercial airplanes, namely Seaboard World and Airlift, taxi down runway and take off. A plane in flight is shown. Ton Son Nhut Airport terminal building appears with flags flying at terminal entrance.
The Vietnam Crises (preceding Vietnam War). Tanks manned by troops of the Special Forces outside Hùng King Temple in Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City), Vietnam. These Vietnamese troops, under the command of President Diem's brother have been mounting a campaign of terror against the Buddhists. Troops on military trucks passing. View of Buddhist Monks and photographers taking photos. College students are arrested.
ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam) military training centers and schools in Vietnam. South Vietnamese cadets train at a training center. A cadet ties a rope around a Vietnamese flag hung in a simulated Vietcong hootch. A sign on the hootch reads 'Phong-Hoi'. He pulls the rope from outside of the hootch. The flag explodes. A cadet camouflaged with foliage runs into the hootch. (Vietnam War period).
Operation Junction City in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. A forest area. A banner hung between branches of trees. Vietcong soldiers seated in a class. A soldier reads from a book and speaks during a political or propaganda class. Rolling boards hanging in the class. The soldiers listening to the speaker. The soldier reads from a paper. The soldiers applaud when the lecture is over.