Activities aboard PBRs (Patrol Boat River) during Operation Giant Sling Shot in Vietnam. A crewman scrubs down the deck of a PBR. Another PBR drifts. Trees alongside a riverbank. Vietnamese on the riverbank. Tracers go through the sky during a fire fight between the PBRs and the North Vietnamese Army at night. A PBR underway at a high speed. Tracers seen in the background. (Vietnam War period).
Activities aboard PBRs (Patrol Boat River) during Operation Giant Sling Shot in Vietnam. A gunner on board a PBR dons a flak jacket (Soldier's last name is Pease, seen on jacket). Other crewmen stands behind him. A .50 caliber machine gunner at his post in a helmet and a flak jacket. Hands of the machine gunner arms his gun. The PBR in a river. Smoke rises from the river bank (Vietnam War period).
United States 1st Cavalry Division soldiers during phase II of Operation Mosby in Vietnam. Soldiers of United States 1st Cavalry division jump off a helicopter as a United States UH-1D helicopter is in flight in the background. Soldiers milling about on a field as UH-1D helicopter comes in for landing in the background. A soldier talks over a radio. Another soldier sets up a 81 mm mortar gun. He looks into the gun sight of the mortar. A soldier with a sentry dog. Two United States Army CH-47 Chinook helicopters take off from a field. (Vietnam War period).
Lieutenant Colonel John C. Hughes Commander of United States 52nd Aviation Company in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Lieutenant Colonel Hughes walks with Special Forces soldiers. He greets children in a village. A child holds a cross bow. Colonel and a Vietnamese man smoke a cigar. Montagnards watch as Lieutenant Colonel smokes the cigar. Colonel lights the cigar of a dwarf woman as she carries a bundle of wood on her back. He poses with two dwarf women carrying bundles of wood on their backs. A boy holds a cross bow.
Views of jungle terrain in Vietnam. Aerial views of pick up point . A stream passing through the jungle. Smoke puffs emerges from hills in the jungle. A patch of grass starts to burn. United States Army UH-1B helicopter in flight. Aerial views of the jungle terrain with a river and a valley. An aircraft in flight. (Vietnam War period).
Lieutenant Colonel John C. Hughes Commander of United States 52nd Aviation in Vietnam. Lieutenant Colonel Hughes goes over a map during a debriefing in front of a United States Army UH-1B aircraft. Lieutenant Colonel points at a map as a soldier listens. Lieutenant Colonel Hughes eats beans from a ration can. (Vietnam War period).
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