USS Hanson (DD-832) underway at sea during Operation Sea Dragon in Vietnam. An officer looks through binoculars. Signalman wearing helmet and flak jacket looks through long glass. 5-inch guns fires. Firing from shore. Petty officer in helmet and flak jacket speaks. Crewman in helmet and flak jacket during General Quarter. Two officers on bridge talk. Captain Brooks W Setzer, Commanding Officer, Destroyer Division 152, on bridge of USS Mansfield (DD-728). The Captain sits with a crew member in interior of bridge area. Men removing empty shell casings from deck of ship. A man touches end of a gun barrel and removes hand quickly because of heat from firing. Crewman put empty casings in cans. Crewman assemble shell cans on deck. Empty shell cases drop out from underneath of mount. Twin 5-inch of DD-728. Gun director radar on top of mount in operation. Part of a range finder seen.
Captured Viet Cong (VC) film shows VC applauding as families enter camp with food and supplies. VC families eat at long tables outdoors under cover of jungle. Vietnamese families carrying supplies walk across a clearing holding branches of foliage, as camouflage, over their heads, to avoid detection from the air. They discard the branches as they enter the jungle cover at the VC base camp, where they are greeted with applause. A mother looks approvingly at her VC son. (Vietnam War period).
A gas truck and crew at the edge of a runway in Vietnam. United States Marine Sergeant checks papers as a South Vietnamese stands before him. Marine hooks up a hose to gas truck and turns on the fuel pump. A crew member fills gas in helicopter as a long line of HUS-1 helicopters is seen on gas line. Helicopters taxi as they take off from the line. A man in tower talks to pilots of helicopters over a wireless.
Captured Viet Cong film shows their methods and tactics. Viet Cong troops pile number of sharp long weapons on ground. They place mines in holes dug on ground. Viet Cong women assist in making weapons. Men place sticks over a trap on ground and hide it with bushes. (Vietnam War period).
Dignitaries watch a parade in Vietnam. Map of South East Asia and Thailand. A still picture of a fishing junk. Five men stand. A parade in progress as dignitaries look on . Float moves in the parade. People march in parade. Girls dressed in military uniforms march. Large group of girls dressed in long white skirts walk. Dignitaries look on from a stand. Float passes in parade. Young girls march in uniform.
U.S. soldiers slogging through muddy fields, along dirt roads and through jungles. A soldier with vegetation on his helmet (comouflage) speaks into a radiophone. A few U.S. soldiers talk among themselves in camp. A tank firing artillery. A helicopter firing rockets. An air ambulance helicopter. Soldiers boarding a Pan American jetliner for transport to Hawaii, for Rest and Recuperation. Signs reading:" Aloha R&R Hawaii' and 'Aloha R&R Personnel' displayed at Fort Derussy, in Hawaii. A group of men and women in a long canoe, enjoying themselves during "R and R." An Army Chaplain conducts religious service for soldiers in the field. Sign on a building reads: Army Community Service Center." An officer speaks with a woman military dependent at the center. A sign lists myriad types of assistance available. Two soldiers talk. A soldier gets a hair cut. Little school children at a school in Vietnam. Vietnamese people following an American soldier across a bridge. American soldiers under fire and firing weapons from the air, from tanks, and from small arms. A soldier loads a grenade launcher. An Army doctor treats an injured Vietnamese girl. American flag flying in the breeze.
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