Fire Support Base "Husky", home of Headquarters Battery, 2nd Battalion, 35th Artillery Regiment (155, SP) Xuan Loc,Vietnam. Aerial view from a UH-1 Huey helicopter, of the base and surrounding terrain. Mountains in the background. [Note: C Battery 7th Battalion, 9th Artillery (105 Howitzer) occupied the other half of the FSB. The base was attacked on the night of May 17/18, 1969, by NVA sappers, mortars, and rockets. Fourteen Americans and an estimated 80 to 90 NVA were killed.]
U.S. 25th Infantry Division Headquarters in Cu Chi, Vietnam. A FDC (Fire Direction Center) sandbagged bunker of Battery D, 3rd Battalion, 13th Artillery, 25th Infantry Division. An M-577 Command-Post armored vehicle.
Massive damage on board USS Forrestal (CV-59) in the Gulf of Tonkin, Vietnam. A burned and damaged helmet lies on the deck, swaying in the wind. Several men from damage control teams and naval officers walk on the damaged deck area. They examine gaping holes due to rocket and bomb explosions. Twisted metal and scorched areas visible. The port side of the flight deck is partially sheared off, with rubble and twisted metal.
Vietnamese Major General Minh addressing the crowd at turnover of Soc Trang base from U.S. Army to VNAF. Other VIP's listening including General Abrams and Genearal Clay. Secretary of Air Force, Robert C. Seamans speaking at the microphone. Reporters and cameramen seen. All VIP's in attention position during National anthem performed by VNAF Band. Dr. Seamans and other VIP's leaving. (Vietnam War period).
Navigator work on documents aboard aircraft AC-47. Viet Nam Air Force officer and crewman attach lanyard wires to parachute flares. (Vietnam War period).
United States troops of the 506th Infantry, 101st Airborne Division in Cambodia, during the Vietnam War. Several soldiers are seen in wooded area. One talks over a PR-25 radio from a tree line at the edge of large open field. Another soldier slings an M-60 machine gun over his shoulder. Then, carrying their gear, the soldiers walk across the open field toward an area where a camp is being set up. In the distance, a UH-1 Huey helicopter sits with engine running and rotor blades turnng. The soldiers enter the tree line where others are assembling with their gear and supplies, next to the open field. The soldier carrying the M-60 machine gun, waves to the camera. Closeup of some soldiers who have pitched a couple of tents and are opening boxes of supplies. A change of scene shows several troops escorting a captured North Vietnamese army (NVA) soldier, whose hands are tied behind him, to a UH-1 helicopter with engine running. The Huey is next seen taking off with the prisoner aboard. Closeup of black NVA cap, left behind,in the mud. (Note: Within a few days, all these troops distinguished themselves in combat with North Vietnamese Army troops. One, in particular, Leslie H. Sabo, Jr. Specialist Fourth Class, of Company B, 3d Battalion, heroically sacrificed his life, in combat on May 10, 1970, and was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.)
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