Man moves along road on motorbike. U.S. heavy tanks parked along side road. Jeeps approach road. Men on top of tank. Tanks and armored personnel carriers lined up alongside road. Buildings framed in the background. Troops stand around side of personnel carriers, some sit on vehicles. Occasional tank seen in between carriers. Dead Vietcong with blackened face lay on outskirts of Tan Son Entrance. Dead Vietcong lay in grass. B-40 rockets seen in the foreground. Ordnance specialist work with small ordnance of grass. Dead Vietcong in the background. View of B-40 rockets and other small pyrotechnics material. Smoke curls up in air from the distant background due to bombing of RVN Air Force in A-1H aircraft. CH-37 helicopter sits in field. Parachute flare up in sky lights up night sky. (Vietnam War period).
European hostages, rescued from Stanleyville, arriving at Leopoldville airport in the Congo, during insurrection there in 1964. Rescued persons deplane from U.S. Air Force C-130 aircraft by way of its rear cargo door and ramps. Sick and wounded are met by medical personnel who place them in ambulances. Next, text from 3rd Geneva Convention, of 1949, is displayed. Scene shifts to U.S. military advisers in Vietnam helping train Republic of Vietnam soldiers (ARVN) in proper treatment of prisoners; methods of taking prisoners with minimum of force; interrogation methods; and medical treatment of wounded prisoners. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. Defense Secretary McNamara addresses a news conference in the United States. United States Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara addresses a news conference and reports on Vietnam. He points at the bombed out supply routes from the North Vietnam. He shows the Chinese machine gun. He points at the charts showing the air raid damaged bridges. Reporters note down the points. The Defense Secretary states presence of the regular North Vietnamese troops in the South. (Vietnam War period).
Animated maps show Japanese invasion in China. Air bases in China. Mountains in the background. Crew seen near aircraft. A plane taxiing at the air base. Liuchow (Liuzhou) Air Base and Kweilin (Guilin) Air Base after Japanese bombardment. Bomb explosion at the air base. Fire and smoke rise. Chinese civilians leave their cities. Refugees gathered at available rail space. Army Personnel and Chinese Army retreat. (World War II period).
309th Tactical Air Squadron Air Strikes over Vietnam. F-100 plane in flight over grassy field in Vietnam strikes on enemy supply areas. Gun camera view shows aerials of grassy field.
308th Tactical Air Squadron Air Strikes over Vietnam. Aircraft F-100 in flight over field in Vietnam. Gun camera view shows the plane strafing targets on ground and targets explode.
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