U.S. soldier lies prone holding an M-79 grenade launcher at the ready. Wounded soldier is rushed from the area. Soldiers look at captured Vietcong equipment. (Vietnam War period).
Vietnam under French occupation and working for the Indochinese Society of Rubber Plantations. Rural family hut with straw roof and children sitting on the ground outside. Still image of a wood plank road. Vietnamese laborers carrying loading sacks of food onto a boat. Vietnamese families in hills and fording a stream. A woman with baby on her back is pulled up an embankment. The people assemble to camp and view the body of one of their dead comrades. Still image of baby and mother viewing body. View of the jungle with a flowing river. Rubber tree being tapped. A sign reads: SOCIÉTÉ INDOCHINOISE DE PLANTATIONS D’HÉVÉAS
A plaque on building reads: National Viet Minh Convention. Ho Chi Minh poses with early Viet Minh comrades. In meeting hall, the wall behind principal speakers is decorated with pictures of Soviet leaders and large picture of Ho Chi Minh, together with signs containing positive slogans. Separately, Ho Chi Minh meets with his cabinet (of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam) in a well appointed conference area set up on a veranda, with decorative iron railings around it. Large maps are on the wall behind Ho Chi Minh at the head of the conference table.
Vietnamese people in Vietnam. Palm trees on a shoreline. Water lily on a river bed. Picture of a young Nguyen Sinh Cung (Ho Chi Minh). people. Numerous letters and cards addressed to Ho chi Minh, from all over the country and the world. One contains drawing of a palm tree with: Bac Ho Kinh yeu (Beloved Uncle Ho) written on the sheet of paper.
Forward Air Controller (FAC) of U.S. 1st cavalry performs preflight checks of an O-1G aircraft at the An Khe Air Base in Vietnam. Pilot climbs in the cockpit and secures his gear. O-1G's engine starts. The aircraft is taxied to runway under direction of the FAC. The aircraft takes off.
U.S. Navy F-4B aircraft of Carrier Air Wing 9 (CVW-9) being launched from deck of USS Enterprise (CVAN-65) in 1966. F-4B on catapult. F-4B launched. Steam rolls down catapult track. Blast fence lowered. Another F-4B taxis onto catapult. Personnel in background. F-4B being launched with after burners. Signal man in dungarees sending message on signal light. F-4B making recovery. F-4B on deck after recovery. Signal man sending message on signal light from rim of signal bridge. Red shirts wheeling bombs under aircraft. Activity on flight deck. Group of red shirted men. Island seen in far background. A-4C aircraft of Heavy Attack Squadron Four (VAH-4), Carrier Wing Five (CVW-5), taxiing over deck. Tow bars stacked. A-4C on deck. Tractor moves by. Aircraft being launched. Men leaving deck. Switch to the personnel on catapult. Steam rolling down the track. Green shirted men and red shirted men watch aircraft recover. Aircraft zips into the scene. F-4B's being lowered on deck edge elevator. Personnel and aircraft on flight deck.
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