A dramatization shows the survival of a downed U.S. pilot in a Vietnamese jungle during the Vietnam War. The pilot examines a wound on his wrist and applies medication. He places back the tube into a packet. The pilot ties a small cord to his first aid survival packet placed over his shoulder. He begins to move through the dense jungle.
A dramatization shows the survival of a downed U.S. pilot in a Vietnamese jungle during the Vietnam War. A pilot comes to the edge of a clearing in the jungle and stops to look around for the enemy. An explosion goes off in the jungle. The pilot emerges from brush, crouches and looks around. He pulls out a radio and an antenna. He pulls out a pistol and checks it. The pilot fires a flare from a small air gun. The flare in the sky. A small explosion goes off in the jungle.
Tactical communications equipment being operated by the 124th Signal Battalion, 4th Infantry Division, during the Vietnam War. An Army technician turns on a piece of radio equipment in a rack and picks up a phone to monitor as he makes adjustments. He moves to several other boxes in a large array of equipment in racks, and makes adjustments in them. Closeup of one piece of equipment shows gauges for measure and frequency drift and technician's hand on the control for output adjustment. The technician holds phone to his ear as he makes adjustments to the radio equipment.
American soldiers of the 1st Brigade, 7th Cavalry speak to Vietnamese farmers in jungle of Que Son Valley during Operation Wallowa in the Vietnam War. Another Vietnamese farmer, wearing headscarf, approaches the group, escorted by another American soldier. Vietnamese elder farmers talking. Vietnamese farmers accompany American troops through the jungle. American soldiers, some wearing clear plastic to keep dry, walk through forested village and dense jungle bushes.
United States soldiers of the 1st Brigade, 7th Cavalry wade through muddy river in Que Son Valley during the Vietnam War as part of Operation Wallowa. View of legs wading through the muddy river. A United States Army helicopter (Bell UH-1 Iroquois “Huey”) lands in farm as Vietnamese farmers stand back.
A United States African-American soldier of the 1st Brigade, 7th Cavalry gestures to the Vietnamese farmers and their children to get out of their hut in Que Son Valley during the Vietnam War as part of Operation Wallowa. A white soldier directs the Vietnamese villagers away from their hut. The Vietnamese stand behind bushes with other villagers one by one. Vietnamese woman holds her infant son. The infant son’s hair is shaved except for a small spot of hair near the forehead, in Da A Fu or "A Fu" Chinese style.