Operation Jackstay in Vietnam. Several Landing Crafts (LCMs) heading back down a river in the Long Thanh peninsula area. A shoreline in the background. A United States flag raised aboard a craft. A Landing Craft in view. Coxswain in the background. James Franklin from Naval Operations Support Group aboard the craft. He stands with an M-14 rifle and looks towards the shoreline. He keeps a vigil for snipers. Two marines look for snipers. A jungle along the shoreline in the background. Marines come out of the jungle towards the LCM after patrol of the shore for Viet Cong. Heavy brush in the background. The marines return aboard the LCM. (Vietnam War period).
View, from very low-flying helicopter, circling the perimeter of of Fire Support Base Charlie One in Vietnam. An observation tower is seen. Mountains in the distant background. Several circular gun emplacements are visible. (Elements of the 2nd Battalion, 94th Field Artillery were stationed at the base during this period.) Some smaller emplacements are seen closer to the perimeter. All structures on the base are low and flat. What appears to be a river and a town in the background. I was in Vietnam at Charlie 1 in 1970 (Jun to Nov) with 2nd BN 94th Arty. I was also at Camp Carrol (J.J. Carrol). They are two different locations, considerable distance apart. NO WAY was it " Fire Support Base Charlie One at Camp Carroll" To describe the "Underground Bunkers" picture Metal culverts about 8-10 foot in diameter, maybe 20 feet long in a wooden box covered in gravel with one end open with a door.
Captured rice is used to feed Vietnamese orphans in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. The statue of Virgin Mary in an orphanage yard. Father John Hien, a Vietnamese catholic priest and the director of Father John's Orphanage, stands next to the statue and thanks men of U.S. 25th division for delivering rice. A long banner being placed by the Vietnamese. Bowls of rice on a table in the orphanage yard. Several big and small bowls of rice on the table.
U.S. 1st Air Cavalry Division in Vietnam during Operation Long Reach in Vietnam War. U.S. Army UH-1D Iroquois helicopter lands. U.S. soldiers get out and run across grass. UH-1D flies off.
U.S. 1st Air Cavalry Division in Vietnam during Operation Long Reach in Vietnam War. U.S. soldier comforts a wounded soldier lying on litter. He gives him puff of cigarette. Other watch. U.S. Army UH-1D Iroquois helicopters land. Wounded soldiers are loaded aboard UH-1D. UH-1D takes off.
U.S. 1st Air Cavalry Division in Vietnam during Operation Long Reach in Vietnam War. U.S. Army UH-1D Iroquois helicopters land. U.S. soldiers carry dead American soldiers on litters and place them aboard helicopters. Helicopters take off.
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