U.S. Air Force pilot, FAC (Forward Air Controller) imbedded with U.S. Army unit, directs air strikes from a forward position on the ground in Vietnam War. Another FAC Pilot in cockpit of an O-1 Bird Dog aircraft in flight over Vietnam. F-100 Supersaber fighter defending a U.S. and Montagnard outpost in Vietnam, under assault by North Vietnamese troops. Loose formation of Douglas Skyraider aircraft in flight. U.S. tactical fighters strafe the assaulting North Vietnamese ground targets only 40 yards from friendly forces .RF-4 reconnaissance aircraft taking off and views from cockpit. RF-4 returns and parks. RF-4 camera and equipment. View inside cockpit of RF-4. Soldier records intelligence information gleaned from reconnaissance mission. Men in photo interpretation control room viewing aerial photographs from panoramic, oblique, vertical and radar cameras. Major General William B. Rosson, Chief of Staff to General William Westmoreland, in Vietnam. Intelligence Officer briefs commanders, using a chart. Tactical Airlift C-130s in flight and dropping paratroops. Sky filled with descending parachutes. Paratroopers land. Heavy equipment being pulled by parachutes from rear of C-130, in flight. Pilots in cockpit of C-130 making an assault landing. C-130s landing on rough dirt strip, using short field landing techniques.Troops and vehicles rush out of plane while its engines are still running. Troops march in field.
A U.S. Air Force aircraft drops bombs on target areas during the Vietnam War in Vietnam. White smoke rises over fields due to napalm bursts in Vietnam. A U.S. Air Force A-1E aircraft drops bombs over huts along the sides of the canal in Toy Bien in Nam Phan Province in Vietnam. Smoke rises from the bombed areas. The aircraft in flight.
Activities of U.S. 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Commanding General of the U.S. Forces in Vietnam, General William C Westmoreland, arrives in Vietnam. He pins the Combat Infantry Badge on Lieutenant Walter A. Hess of 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry 101st Division. The General troops the line of the assembled honor guards. He stops to chat with some of the men.
President of the United States Lyndon Baines Johnson visits Cam Ranh Bay Air Base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Troops including all service color guards break formation and run towards platform. President Johnson addresses troops. Presidential seal on door of a United States Air Force aircraft VC-137B aircraft. President Johnson talks to United States Army General William C Westmoreland and U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam Ellsworth Bunker. He boards the VC-137B aircraft. President waves from the top of the ramp. A red kangaroo painted on side of an aircraft. Ramp being rolled away from the aircraft. Ellsworth Bunker, Vice President of Vietnam Nguyen Cao Ky,William C Westmoreland and others walk on Air Base. William C. Westmoreland shakes hands with Nguyen Cao Ky. Ellsworth Bunker and General William Wallace Momyer in the background. Nguyen Cao Ky boards the United States Air Force aircraft T-39A.
Proper treatment of prisoners of war being shown. Demonstration of Viet Cong being apprehended but treated humanely, during the Vietnam War. Local Vietnamese civilians receiving attention from U.S. and Republic of Vietnam military medical personnel. North Vietnamese propaganda posters illustrating ostensible mistreatment by American and Republic. Newspaper headline reporting murder of captured U.S. soldier by Viet Cong, in Vietnam. Views of various cruel and unusual weapons and traps employed by the Viet Cong. Republic of Vietnam soldiers (ARVN) boarding an American helicopter. Examples of permissable combat while adversary continues to fight : A flight of three B-26 bombers dropping bombs and a single plane dropping napalm. Battery of U.S. M114 155 mm howitzers firing shells. U.S. soldiers firing mortars and machine guns. Glimpse of delegates meeting for Third Geneva Convention at Palace of Nations, in 1949. ARVN troops helping Vietnamese farmers harvest grain..
First scene shows a U.S. Army UH-1 helicopter flying over South Vietnam during Vietnam War. Next, American soldier is seen firing at Viet Cong who are running toward a downed helicopter. U.S. soldiers seen climbing out of the helicopter, which is turned on its side. They rush away under fire from the Viet Cong. A ward in a U.S. military hospital in vietnam, where wounded soldiers being treated. Closeups of some of the patients. A flat bed truck carrying American flag-draped coffins of fallen American soldiers drives past a U.S. C-130 aircraft with number 54375 on its tail. A contingent of U.S. servicemen, including sailors in whites and others in Khakis, at parade rest, near a C-130 aircraft. They begin to carry the flag-draped caskets bearing dead American military personnel into the rear loading door of the aircraft. Closeups of Vietnamese people. U.S. soldiers jamming the side railings of a troop ship arriving in Vietnam. One soldier hurries down the gangplank. Then a soldier carrying a unit flag, with numeral one on it, descends the gangplank, followed by two officers. Next, troops are seen assembled with American flag and another one carried by soldiers.
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