Soldiers of United States 720th military police battalion in a patrol boat at De Long Pier in Vung Tau in Vietnam. United States flag and a banner reading military police seen atop the patrol boat. A soldier cleans a .50 cal machine gun as an officer looks on. Soldier steers the boat. The boat patrols the shoreline. Military police officers stop a sampan sailing through the sea. A sampan is a flat bottomed wooden boat. A rope is hooked on the edge of the sampan and a Vietnamese and an American officer gets on to the sampan for patrolling. They talk to two local women on board the sampan and take notes. An officer of United States looks on from the patrolling boat. The two officers search the sampan thoroughly. (Vietnam War period).
Lieutenant Colonel John C. Hughes commander of United States 52nd Aviation Company in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Vietnamese children at a Montagnard village of Plei-Mrong. Young girls with babies tied to their backs. A Vietnamese man in a cloak seated on the ground as he smokes a long pipe. Lieutenant Colonel John C. Hughes gives candies to children. A woman grins as she looks at him. An old Vietnamese man holding gifts.
Elements of three U.S. Marine Battalions land at Chu Lai in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Vietnamese girl puts floral wreath on a marine. Viet girls walks on a beach. Signs on a beach read 'Down With Red Chinese Belligerents' ,'Long Live VN -US Friendship','Welcome U.S. Marines Corps'. A crane bogged down in water in front of a Landing Craft Utility (LCU). Marine walks near the shoreline
President Lyndon B. Johnson addresses the United States public at a White House news conference about the Vietnam War on July 28, 1965. “We do not seek the destruction of any government, nor do we covet a foot of any territory. But we insist and we will always insist that the people of South Vietnam shall have the right of choice, the right to shape their own destiny in free elections in the South or throughout all Viet-Nam under international supervision, and they shall not have any government imposed upon them by force and terror so long as we can prevent it… We do not want an expanding struggle with consequences that no one can perceive, nor will we bluster or bully or flaunt our power, but we will not surrender and we will not retreat,” says President Johnson,
1st Air Cavalry Dv. of Operation Delaware. A Shau Valley filled with smoke and pockmarked with craters all over. April 1968.
Large audience of American Army soldiers is seated in hangar and spills outside, as well, to watch Sammy Davis Jr. who is performing as part of a USO tour entertaing troops during the Vietnam War. Glimpse of Davis onstage. A banner reading "156th Aviation Company" is displayed at back of stage. Views of troops in audience. Several take pictures. A woman singer onstage dressed in bright orange outfit. She finishes her song and leaves the stage as another woman enters, dressed in a long brightly colored dress. Several musicians play at rear of stage. The woman takes a microphone as troops watch and signal their approvals. View from rear of troops watching from outside. Various views of audience applauding interspersed with views of the woman singing onstage. A young Vietnamese girl in the audience. A Vietnamese officer sits with American officers in the audience, as the Americans clap rhythmically in cadence with the music being played and sung by the woman performer onstage.
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