Dump truck backs up to a tractor crane near mountain at Phan Rang rock crusher site. Crane shovel picks up a scoop of rock from mountainside and dumps it into truck. Large dump truck is filled with rock by crane shovel. Rock crusher in operation. Dust swirls around. Truck loaded with rock arrives at rock crusher site.
Pilings protrude from water. Crane swirl piling around in position for the pile driver. Barge is out on bay in the background. Merchant ship in the far background. One man in small boat as the pile is swung around. Two crane booms lowering pilings into position. Several piling protrude from water. Surveyor behind his transit. Man swims around base of a piling and another man assists him. Steel pilings protrude from water. Crane aboard huge barge. Crane swinging its pile driving unit and positioned on very top of a steel piling.
The United States 1st Brigade Lancers of the 25th Infantry Division get off a U.S. Army CH-47 Chinook helicopter. They climb up the well bunkered Nui Ba Den Mountain also called 'The Black Lady Mountain'. Sign with 'Welcome to Nui Ba Den ' seen. Soldiers talk and relax. A soldier holds a cup in his hands. Another fills his cup from a container. Soldiers walk in a single file. CH-47 helicopter in flight overhead. Patrol moves downhill through dense foliage. Soldiers climb down rocks carefully. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. Air Force Officers in AC-130 aircraft converse while they aim accurately at a convoy of enemy trucks. Taking accurate aim on enemy trucks, the officer fires on target. (Vietnam War period).
USO troupe singer, Sondra "Blinky" Williams entertains sailors aboard aircraft carrier USS Hancock, during the Vietnam War. Musician accompanist playing a flute. Blinky Willams performs with tambourine in hand. U.S. Marine stands guard, at parade rest, next to the stage stairs. Musicians with instruments play onstage.
George Rhodes,orchestra and cast rehearse for USO troupe show during Vietnam War. George Rhodes assembles musical notes papers on chair. Musicians play trumpets and other instruments. Drummer plays the drums. George Rhodes stands and gives instructions to the musicians. Musical note reads 'rock a bye ending'.