View of muddy river from a Command and Communications boat of the Mobile Riverine Force (9th Infantry Division) moving in the Song Ba Lai - West region in Vietnam. As it rounds a bend in the river, several other boats from the unit are seen ahead including Armored Troop Carriers and monitors underway. One monitor, maneuvers close to shore past the camera boat. it is followed by two Armored Troop Carriers. Change of scene, shows another Command and Communications boat passing the camera boat in the opposite direction.
United States soldiers of Mobile Riverine Force (9th Infantry Division) in Vietnam. Assault Support Patrol Boat ASPB A-112-3 and A-112-6 underway in a river. Soldiers aboard the "Brown Water Navy" ASPB boats. A Command Control Boat (CCB) goes by on the river. Close up view of 40 mm gun mounted in turret of a Monitor. The 40 mm gun of the Monitor as it fires at Viet Cong bunker positions along the shore. Smoke rises up and explosions seen along the bank of the river. The Monitor heads up the river. Views of the Monitor starboard side and the gun turret after it pulls up to shore.
Map of Vietnam pinpoints Binh Tuy. The Map shows port city Da Nang along shoreline. Close view of Binh Tuy, Da Nang and Delta area.
View from a U.S. Marine bunker as enemy shell explodes nearby, during the siege of Khe Sanh in 1968 during the Vietnam War. The United States Marines in the Battle of Khe Sanh firing mortars and a 105mm howitzer from their bunker. Enemy shells exploding on the tarmac, where American Air Force C-130 aircraft are parked. Marines rushing wounded comrades on stretchers, to C-130s for evacuation. Scene shifts to U.S. Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel James P. Sheehan, standing at Camp Pendleton, California. (He was a company commander in the siege at Khe Sanh.) As he describes the C-130 aircraft support operations, a contingent of marines marches past, behind him. Scene shifts to a civilian narrator standing in the Military Airlift Command (MAC) Headquarters Command Center at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois. Among other things, he describes MAC support to the Tactical Air Command in Korea. Camera focuses on MAC air routes in the vicinity of the Philippines, Japan, and Korea. Next, is seen view of airfield at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, briefly at sunset, and then at night, as pilots of the 366th Tactical Fighter Wing and their F-111 aircraft prepare to depart for Korea, in response to border tensions, in August, 1976, after North Korean forces killed two American officers ("Korean Axe Murder Incident" and resulting "Operation Paul Bunyan"). Ground crewman directs a taxiing F-111 using lighted wands. The F-111s takes off. One of them is seen landing after the 7 thousand mile flight to Korea, as Major Paul Malandrino,Jr. (unseen) of the 366th Wing, speaks about MAC's airlift support. A C-141 MAC aircraft is seen landing. View of a C-141 with tail doors open and its cargo of military equipment on the ramp behind it. Glimpse of a marine with rifle and earphones, guarding equipment on the airfield ramp. Closeups of F-111 aircraft taking off.
U.S. Air Force C-130 airdrop operations in 1968, during Vietnam War. C-130 aircraft in flight. View of supplies being airdropped. View from inside cabin of a C-130, as South Vietnamese paratroopers jump from the aircraft. A heavy pallet of supplies being pulled onto a runway by parachutes, from the rear of a low-flying C-130. Scene shifts to October 14, 1973,at Lod International Airport, Tel Aviv, Israel, where a U.S. Air Force Military Airlift Command C-5 aircraft is unloading 186,200 pounds of military assistance cargo, at the start of the U.S. "Nickel Grass" airlift operation during the Yom Kippur war or Arab-Israeli War of 1973. Pallets of ammunition are seen being offloaded, followed by a 175mm self-propelled gun, covered with wooden cargo boxes. Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir and other observers watch stand on the airport ramp. Golda Meir meets and greets members of the U.S. Air Force crew.
The activities of the United States Navy in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. United States Navy Sea, Air and Land Forces (SEAL) boat underway in Mekong river. 50 Caliber Machine gun barrel protruding out in the foreground. The boat moves down the Mekong river, heavy foliage along the river bank. Awning stretched out over the (Landing Craft Mechanized) LCM underway in river. Navy SEAL patrol coming through the heavy bushes. Some of the SEALs climb aboard the LCM, which is up to the river bank. SEAL members climb aboard.