Activities of United States soldiers at the Fire Support Base ( FSB ) Bronco in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Trees in the background. A United States Army CH-47 Chinook helicopter comes in for a landing. The soldiers unload the helicopter. A truck loaded with soldiers drives up to the helicopter. A sandbag emplacements in the foreground. A barber cuts a soldier's hair. Other soldiers stand in the background.
Activities of United States soldiers at the Fire Support Base Bronco in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. A helicopter parked on a field. U.S. Army officers discuss amongst themselves in a tent. The officers have coffee mugs in their hands. Two officers walk outside the tent and discuss. Three officers walk towards the helicopter.
The U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division troops patrol in jungles of A Shau Valley, Vietnam during the Battle of Fire Support Base Ripcord of Vietnam War. A troop sits and reads from his diary. The soldiers talk over field telephone. Troops patrol in a jungle. A group of soldiers sit on ground. Troops move through high grass and jungle en route pick up position. U.S. Army UH-1B Iroquois helicopters come in for landing. Landing zone smoke grenades explode designating the troop pickup zone for pull out. Troops board helicopter and it takes off.
An air stair moves toward Air Force One aircraft (VC-137C SAM 26000) at Andrews Air Force Base near Morningside, Maryland. The casket bearing the body of President John F. Kennedy is taken out of Air Force One. President Kennedy’s casket is loaded into the hearse. The hearse is followed by a group of staff cars. President Lyndon B. Johnson and First Lady Lady Bird Johnson stand at microphones to make comments to the press following the assassination of President Kennedy in Texas.
U.S. Fire Support Base Ripcord in the A Shau Valley, South Vietnam, under siege by North Vietnam Army forces during the Vietnam War. Several 105mm towed howitzers are positioned atop the base, with barrels at high elevations. Camera focuses on Gunners loading and firing one. The wind is blowing very hard, complicating their activity and causing the cameraman trouble too, as it buffets his camera. The camera views several guns operating in the battery. The Battery then level their guns to fire point blank at their targets. (They also increase their powder charge to 7, the maximum.) the resultant recoil strikes and injures SP/4 Bowing of a gun crew, who falls and is seen lying at the back of his gun. The crew calls for help and carries him to the ground. Cameraman stops filming briefly.. Next, a soldier is seen leaning over SP/4 Bowing, rendering aid.
Vietnamese Coastal Group junk base in Degi, Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Aerial view: A river flowing. A heavily populated area. A junk base. A village and the junk base directly in the background. A pier extends over from a river bank.
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