U.S. Marines in Vietnam. A Chaplain joins U.S. Marines for religious services during a brief lull in the fighting. An altar made of ammunition boxes and a homemade chapel. Marines gather around for the mass. They listen carefully to the Chaplain. Communion is shared on a blasted hill. A Marine holds the wafers and wine. Soldiers aboard a troopship in the Mekong River. A GI covered in monsoon mud. He washes up in the river water. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. Navy carrier air attack in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Rockets streak towards the edge of the Mekong River. Smoke rises from the shoreline where hits are made by rockets. Smoke rises from a Viet Cong hideout on the shoreline. A navy aircraft in flight over a terrain firing rockets. Rockets make their hits along the shoreline. United States Navy A-1H Skyraider aircraft in flight. The A-1H aircraft on a diving run over the terrain surrounding the river. Rockets are fired from the aircraft and hits are made in a patchy wooded area after the pull out. The aircraft climbs up steeply. It banks over the terrain and moves in on a diving attack. A string of rockets are fired.
United States Mobile Riverine Force (9th Infantry Division) in Vietnam. ASPB (Assault Patrol Boat) underway in a river. A Landing Craft (Monitor) passes by. The ASPBs leave the large river and enter a canal. A Monitor underway. A ramp is lowered and soldiers go ashore. A 50 caliber machine gun turret on the Monitor. A naval officer in command position aboard the Monitor. He speaks over the radio phone. A United States flag in the background. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. soldiers of Mobile Riverine Force (9th Infantry Division) in Vietnam. A soldier crosses a narrow footbridge across a canal near a shore. Soldiers being shuttled across a deep narrow canal by the Boston Whaler canal boat. The soldiers struggle up a muddy embankment. ATCs (Armored Troop Carriers) slowly make their way up the canal. An ATC tows the Boston Whaler. Two soldiers wash their muddy uniforms and equipment in the river. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. Mobile Riverine Force (9th Infantry Division) in Vietnam. United States helicopter UH-1D Iroquois lands on the flight deck of an ATC (Armored Troop Carrier) at a shore. The Boston Whaler canal boat loaded with soldiers approaches the ATC. The soldiers get off the Boston Whaler boat onto the ATC. The soldiers board the UH-1D Iroquois helicopter. The canal boat leaves. UH-1D Iroquois helicopter takes off. (Vietnam War period).
United States soldiers of Mobile Riverine Force (9th Infantry Division) (Brown Water Navy) in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. The U.S. soldiers set fire to shelters in Viet Cong training center. Vietnamese banners in the shelters. ATCs (Armored Troop Carrier) and ASPBs (Assault Patrol Boats) beached at the bank of a canal. United States flags on the boats. A Viet Cong hut burns. Flames and smoke rises up. River Assault Flotilla One Program 4 Monitor M-111-3 (of RAD 111) seen at shore. ASPB (Assault Patrol Boat) A-112-2 underway; soldiers aboard the boat.