Opening day of New Cam Ranh Bay Base Exchange in Vietnam. Long line of United States military personnel waiting in line to buy items from the Base Exchange. Vehicles drive past the queue of soldiers. (Vietnam War period).
F Company, 51st Long Range Patrol (Airborne) Infantry in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Returning from a mission, six members of a light recon patrol leave a UH-1B Iroquois helicopter parked with its engine running. They walk to a camp area for debriefing. They are seen under a large tent, being debriefed by Intelligence Specialist Ronald K. Brown, from Headquarters. He asks questions and takes notes during the process. Scene shifts to view of the tent from outside. A sandbag wall is seen behing the tent. The patrol and others leave the tent. Next an unassociated bit of film shows an armed patrol moving rapidly towards some foliage and a glimpse of a chopper in flight overhead.
A patrol of U.S. LRP (Long Range Patrol) 51st Infantry soldiers on a jungle path in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. The soldiers of the patrol walk cautiously in brush. A soldier speaks over a radio. The patrol continues through the jungle.
United States Vice President Richard Nixon arrives at the Dinh Gia Long Palace (now known as the Ho Chi Minh City Museum 65 Lý Tự Trọng, Bến Nghé, Quận 1, Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh 70000, Vietnam) in Saigon, Vietnam. Flags of the United States and Vietnam fly atop the palace. Soldiers dressed in white stand for an honor guard. Vice President Nixon, American Ambassador to Indochina (Cambodia, Laos and South Vietnam) Donald R. Heath, along with other officials from Vietnam enter the palace where they have a meeting. After the meeting they come out of the palace.
Opening scene shows closeup of a member of the U.S. Army First Infantry Division Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol unit (LRRP) wearing a black beret with parachutist's badge. In background,LRRP members watch as an instructor demonstrates how to field strip a Soviet AK-47 assault rifle. Scene shifts to viewpoint of soldiers watching the instructor. Tents are seen in the background. Closeups of instructor show master parachutist badge on his black beret. Scene shifts again to a large sign containing a large painted logo with a picture of a Vietcong in the center, surrounded by images of black berets. The combat infantryman badge is shown at the top and 1st Infantry Division and MACV recondo badges appear at opposite sides of the sign. (Note: LRRP Units were Airborne, Special Forces. The LRRP Unit of the 1st Infantry Division, shown in these scenes, on January 1st, was, at that time, designated: Company F of the 52nd Infantry Regiment.) (Vietnam War period).
United States Air Force ( USAF ) support for the evacuation of Cambodian refugees from Boung Long, Cambodia to Pleiku AB in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. At Boung Long, Cambodia: Cambodian refugees wait to board an aircraft. They board a C-7A. A pilot at the controls and the control panel. At Pleiku Air Base, Vietnam: The C-7A taxis in. The engine of the aircraft stops. Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) troops and refugees unload the aircraft. The refugees leave the aircraft.
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