View of three different types of recoilless rifle shells at a sandbagged emplacement in Ankhe South Vietnam. One of the shells reads '90M COMP B CART ME XM591'. U.S. Army 1st Air Cavalry Division soldier loads a shell into a recoilless weapon mounted on the shoulders of another soldier. The armed soldier looks through the scope of the launcher. (Vietnam War period).
Glimpse of U.S. Army gun crew operating a 3-inch M3 Anti Aircraft gun. Glimpse of 1st Lt Joseph H. Eastman and Captain Eddie Rickenbacker standing beside Rickenbacker's SPAD S.XIII #1 parked in front of a hangar at Foucaucourt Aerodrome, France, 1918. Sequence shifts to 1936, and office of Rickenbacker, now President of Eastern Airlines. A poster on the wall contains memorabilia from the 94th Aero Squadron, with which Rickenbacker flew in World War I. Camera pans over photographes bordering the poster. Next, Rickenbacker is seen conversing with his guest, Cyrus R. Smith, President of American Airlines, as they look at a picture of Rickenbacker and his Spad airplane, signed by numerous pilots who also served with the 94th Aero Squadron. A mounted model of a Douglas DC-3 airplane sits atop a table in the foreground. Rickenbacker and C.R. Smith, both hold onto the DC-3 airplane model as they shake hands. Closeup of the DC-3 model as Rickenbacker rotates it before the camera. (Note: Both Smith and Rickenbacker, presidents of their respective airlines, had mutual admiration for the Douglas DC-3 airliner. In 1934,Smith arranged to purchase 20 new DC-3 airplanes from the Douglas Aircraft Company. American's first DC-3 "Flagship Illinois," had its maiden flight on June 25, 1936. Eastern Airlines took delivery of its first DC-3 in December 1936.)
American Forces withdrawing from Cambodia. View of an American Fire Support Base Myron near Hill 428, in Cambodia. U.S. 199th Light Infantry Brigade troops talk to local tribesmen through an interpreter. AH-1G helicopter fires rockets outside the camp. (Note: John W. Hart, who served with 3rd Platoon, D/5/12, 199th LIB, at Fire Base Myron in 1970, has identified the shirtless soldier with curly hair at second 41 in the clip, as Otto White, one of his unit's M-60 machine gunners.)
Traffic crosses the damaged Newport Bridge in Saigon, South Vietnam. People look at three dead Vietcong soldiers. Travel shot crossing the bridge, passing M-48 tanks and Miltary Police on guard. Huge explosions from bomb bursts as fighter jet aircraft attack Vietcong in city. A diver prepares to examine the damage done to bridge. (Vietnam War period).
American 199th Light Infantry Brigade troops check ID cards of civilians at doorways of their homes, as they search for enemy fighters, during the Vietnam War. Soldier kicks down door of house. Soldiers enter and search houses. Dead civilian on street. Partially covered body of a dead civilian. Soldier stands by as a civilian opens door of a locked house. Soldiers search in destroyed and wrecked houses. One soldier climbs up on roof to a porch on a house. Soldiers break down door of house with a wooden beam. Soldiers atop M-42 self-propelled antiaircraft gun, with twin 40mm guns, as it drives on dirt street.
U.S. 199th Light Infantry Brigade soldiers posted in Saigon during the Vietnam War. Soldier can be seen repairing a radio. Officers have lemonade. U.S. military vehicles move down street. Soldiers distribute cigarette packets to children. Soldiers eat combat ration atop a M42 Duster. Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) soldiers arrive in a truck.
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