Covers TET observance program by VNAF (Viet Nam Air Force) 33rd Wing and USAF (United States Air Force) Advisory Team No.1 in Tan Tru village, Vietnam. VNAF personnel and a Vietnamese girl carry gift boxes to be presented to chiefs of hamlets. A U.S. Army band plays. Vietnamese children on a grass field. Various views of children eating. U.S. and Vietnamese Army band play together. A large group of children stands around. (Vietnam War period).
Covers TET observance program by VNAF (Viet Nam Air Force) 33rd Wing and USAF (United States Air Force) Advisory Team No.1 in Tan Tru village, Vietnam. Vietnamese people present slips of paper for gift boxes and Vietnamese soldiers carry them away for them. U.S. Army Lieutenant Art Cesario of 1st Cavalry Division shows picture of his wife and baby to Vietnamese people gathered around him. A boy sells ice cream bars. (Vietnam War period).
Aerial view of a USAF AC-119K Stinger gunship in flight. It displays tail code IH and number 839. It appears to be flying over farmland in vicinity of its home base, Lockbourne Air Force Base, Ohio, where the USAF 1st Special Operations Wing is headquartered.
The President's plane Air Force One arrives at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland. Honor Guard stands at attention as John Kennedy's casket is carried out of plane and placed on a high-lift ramp. The lift is lowered and Honor Guard carries the casket to waiting ambulance. Mrs. Kennedy and Attorney General Robert Kennedy get off the lift and enter the ambulance to accompany the President's body to the White House. Ambulance is driven away.
U.S. and Republic of Vietnam soldiers (ARVN) walk around and peruse a vast display of captured Viet Cong (VC) weapons, displayed on an airfield ramp, in South Vietnam, during the Vietnam War. The display comprises numerous small arms and mortars, all of which are stacked against or on tables, and on the ramp itself. A pair of UH-1 Huey helicopters take off in background. ARVN soldiers walk from UH-1s that are hovering in the background. Scene shifts toward vehicles gathered on a sandy area nearby. Camera shows several suspected VC being interrogated by a Vietnamese Air Force officer, and an American officer. Several ARVN in steel helmets stand with them. (Note: Silent except for brief comment by someone about VC suspects being interrogated.)
U.S. General Officers planning for the U.S. Army 101st Air Cavalry Division's Operation Somerset Plain ( A Search and Destroy Mission to prevent North Vietnam Army elements from reentering the A Shau Valley, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam). U.S. Officers including Major General Melvin Zais, Brigadier General John, S Lekson, Marine Major General C B Drake discussing a map with Lieutenant Colonel Daniel G. Sharp, Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion, 502 Infantry Regiment. August,1968. (Vietnam War period).
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