U.S. 1st Air Cavalry Division in Vietnam during Operation Long Reach in Vietnam War. Officers hold a briefing on field. Young Vietcong prisoner with his hands tied behind his back.
U.S. 1st Air Cavalry Division in Vietnam during Operation Long Reach in Vietnam War. South Vietnamese soldier tries to question a wounded Vietcong prisoner lying on the ground. Wounded American soldiers on litters waiting to be airlifted out by helicopters.
U.S. 1st Air Cavalry Division soldiers in Vietnam during Operation Long Reach in Vietnam War. U.S. soldiers with M-14 rifles stand guard over Vietcong prisoners. The prisoners are blindfolded and have their hands tied behind them. U.S. soldiers cautiously advance across grassy palm and into jungle.
U.S. 1st Air Cavalry Division in Vietnam during Operation Long Reach in Vietnam War. U.S. soldiers search dead bodies of Vietcong soldiers. U.S. soldiers look at a captured 7.62 automatic weapon which was manufactured in Red China. Soldiers take cover in wooded area. U.S. soldiers guard blindfolded Vietcong prisoners on field.
U.S. 1st Air Cavalry Division in Vietnam during Operation Long Reach in Vietnam War. U.S. soldiers with guns advance cautiously into jungle. Soldiers remove dead American soldiers from combat area. Soldiers rest in jungle.
View from UH-1 helicopter flying over Camp Holloway in Vietnam highlands, during period U.S. troops are commencing their incursion into Cambodia, during the Vietnam War. Rough dirt paths and landing areas have been carved out of the earth and scrub brush landscape. Half a dozen UH-1s are parked on the site, as well as trucks and other vehicles. A huge section of the site is barren, except for a white wind sock. View from the ground of a UH-1 coming in to land. It sets down on a ramp of marsden matting, aka pierced steel planking (PSP), as a CH-47 chopper takes off in the background. Camera is photographing from another UH-1 that takes off, still focusing on the one that just arrived. A C-130 aircraft is on the runway in the background. The departing camera-helicopter shows troops and equipment on the bare earth below. Scene shifts to aerial views of sky, clouds, and mountainous terrain. Shifting to view of ground, another advance base is seen below. Another UH-1 is seen in the sky.The camera-helicopter passes over a dirt field where a low flying formation of helicopters is raising huge dust clouds. In the midst of this site there is a long hard surface (PSP) runway, that the camera-helicopter flies along, at altitude.Troops and equipment plus more helicopters are in the dirt areas beside the hard runway.
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