Activities aboard PBRs (Patrol Boat River) during Operation Giant Sling Shot in Vietnam. A PBR stops long enough to blow up bunkers along a riverbank. A crewman aboard the PBR. The boat in the Vam Co Long river. Trees alongside the riverbank. A sampan along the port side for inspection. A stern view of the PBR and the sampan. The PBR heads up the river. Several of the Ssmpans secured to the PBR for search. Vietnamese aboard the sampans. The sampans around the starboard quarter. Vietnamese policeman searches one of the sampans.
United States Air Force (USAF ) support for the evacuation of Cambodian refugees from Boung Long, Cambodia during the Vietnam War. A C-7A aircraft taxi on a field. Cambodian refugees in a camp. The refugees wait and board the C-7A. "Maria Elena" written on the aircraft. The C-7A taxis out and takes off. The refugees in the background. The refugees and children sitting on the ground. A cart loaded with belongings. A sack of food supply from the United States.
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.
Big Picture depicts the U.S. soldiers in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Paintings of United States soldiers and firing of artillery during the Vietnam War in Vietnam. A CH-47 helicopter lands at hilltop fire base. U.S. troops on patrol First Lieutenant leads a squad. They ignite orange smoke flare to mark landing zone for Huey chopper (Bell UH-1 helicopter) that lands and picks them up. View of squad inside helicopter. U.S. troops sweep for mines. U.S. tanks equipped for mine clearing. Huey chopper fires missiles. Tank fires artillery. U.S. artillerymen fire 155 mm long tom gun. Soldier fires fully automatic hand-held weapon.
United States Mobile Riverine Force (9th Infantry Division) in Mekong Delta in Vietnam. A long line of ATCs (Armored Troop Carriers) moving up a large river. A Landing Craft (Monitor) underway in the river. The Monitor passes a sampan boat. Native women on the sampan. A sailor in the turret of a flamethrower on the Monitor. A sailor at its wheel. (Vietnam War period).
The Battle of Khe Sanh in Khe Sanh, South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. An M-76 amphibious cargo carrier is driven. Casualties on stretchers being placed aboard United States Marine Corps UH-1H Iroquois and CH-46B Sea Knight helicopters. Men remove long crates from a CH-46B helicopter.
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