United States Marine Corps pilot of Squadron VMF (AW) 232 (Red Devils), wearing flight suit and a red helmet, sits in the cockpit of an F-8E Crusader aircraft in Da Nang Vietnam. The name "Wheatley" is stenciled below the cockpit. The pilot raises two fingers to indicate start engine. Ground crewman wearing noise suppressor headset acknowledges with two fingers.Ground crewman collects gear pins. Another ground crewman pulls chocks, hangs them on a rocket tube, and signals for the pilot to taxi. He pulls the chocks off the rocket tube as the aircraft taxis past, with its wings folded. The pilot, Major Cronkrite, unfolds wings and taxis to join the other F-8E, piloted by Wheatley, on the active runway. (Note: On June 20, 1967 Major Charles Ligon Cronkrite experienced mechanical problems during a mission and ejected over water. He did not survive.) (Vietnam War period).
Landing craft loaded with French troops make their way through the Bamboo Canal in Vietnam. Troops disembark from the landing craft on river bank near port of Coi-Co at the junction of Song-Thai-Binh. They cross open fields and canal ( some with supplies on their backs). Local children seen with water buffaloes. A truck is ferried across the canal. Advance is held up as they encounter Viet-Minh resistance at a village. French soldiers dig in. They fire machine guns and mortars. Thatched-roofed house burns as they occupy the village.
A huge construction site appears. Long unpaved roads in the construction site are also seen. U.S. soldiers guard the construction site. Few soldiers sit on a Howitzer gun. At a distant place firing occurs. Smoke arises from the fired place. (Vietnam War period).
Arrival of U.S. Army 104th Infantry Division soldiers home to the United States at the end of their deployment in Europe during World War 2. Happy U.S. Army troops smile as they leave ship pier with transport duffel bags and boarding a waiting railroad train. Close-up views of Timberwolf patches on shoulder of uniforms. Transport ship docking at pier. Large sign on side of transport reads "104th Timberwolves" (the U.S. Army 104th Infantry Division) and troops seen aboard transport ship. Major General Allen (Terry de la Mesa Allen Sr.) comes down gangplank. General is greeted by his wife (Mary Frances Robinson Allen) and teenage son (Terry Allen Jr., who, later, as a Lt. Colonel in the U.S. Army, was killed during the Vietnam War Battle of Ong Thanh in 1967). Troops with bags walk up stairs. (World War II period)
An aircraft flies over fields,a few houses and trees as it approaches towards a dirt airstrip at Long Thanh in Dong Nai province in south east Vietnam. The aircraft lands at the dirt airstrip using and moves over it as a military truck remains parked towards the right of the runway.
The aftermath of the Viet Cong attack on village of Dong Xoai, Phouc Long Province, South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. A few Vietnamese soldiers looking at captured Viet Cong bazookas, recoilless rifles, mortars, machine guns and rifles. View of the guns and rifles on the ground. Artillery being fired. A soldier standing in a dirt area. An explosion occurs and smoke rises at a distance among the tress. Damaged houses and scattered debris. A few soldiers walking through the debris. Dead bodies of children among the debris. Dead men and women in the village beside the houses. Dead bodies lying about on the ground. Dead soldiers on the outskirts of the village. A part of a dead body lying on the ground.
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