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U.S. President Richard Nixon addresses people in the United States on withdrawal of remaining U.S. troops from Vietnam.

Television broadcast of U.S. President Richard Nixon's speech from the White House in Washington DC, United States on the withdrawal of remaining U.S. troops from Vietnam on 29th March 1973 during the Vietnam War. The White House. The Seal of the President of the United States. The President talks about that period of the Vietnam War when he joined the office and speaks about the program he initiated to end the war. He says American prisoners are on their way from Vietnam and people of South Vietnam are now free to choose their government. He says North Vietnam is not complying with few provisions of the Peace Agreement. He says that they should honor all those American soldiers who died during the Vietnam War. He refers to the difficult days of the war including the moratorium to end the war which was organized on October 15, 1969 when millions of Americans took day off from work and schools to participate in local demonstrations against the war. Nixon refers to the period of April 1971 when he ordered attacks on Communist bases in Cambodia. He talks about the period of May 1972 when he ordered air strikes in North Vietnam and the period of December 1972 when he ordered more air strikes.

Date: 1973
Duration: 6 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073677
U.S. Airmen build base buildings and CES dispensary building at RMK and 819th Civil Engineering Squadron Air Force base,Vietnam

Wooden planks and blocks stacked on ground. Airmen saw lumbar with 'Dewalt' power saw. Airmen build base buildings. 819th CES dispensary building at RMK and 819th Civil Engineering Squadron Air Force base project area. Sign on the dispensary building reads ' Sick Call Hours-Routine Daily 0730-0930 1300-1400 Sunday and Holiday 1000 Emergencey Any time'. Military ambulance is parked near the dispensary building at RMK and 819th Civil Engineering Squadron base project. (Vietnam War period).

Date: 1966, September 26
Duration: 2 min 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675025458
U.S. Marine Air and Ground teams in action during Vietnam War.

Excerpt from film entitled "Counterattack- Marine Air Ground Team," about U.S. Marines in the Vietnam War. Marines are seen walking cautiously across irrigation ditches in cultivated region of South Vietnam. Scene shifts to one marine looking down at a hole where smoke is rising at the base of a berm. Vietnamese families evacuating their village where marines are burning houses and huts. View from riverbank strung with barbed wire, where marines are relaxing while gunfire is heard and black smoke rises from fires burning across the river. Next, a city is seen jammed with Vietnamese refugees with their belongings (some being assisted by ARVN soldiers) making their way through the crowds. A fallen civilian seen on the ground, victim of the Viet Cong (VC). Buildings and places of worship severely damaged by the VC. A bearded old Vietnamese man wearing a non la (conical hat) and smoking a cigarette, is questioned by a U.S. soldier. (Narrator says civilians are reluctant to say much for fear of reprisals.) Marines walking slowly through a village, and then through areas of trees and brush, open areas, and dense jungle. View of underbelly of a U.S. jet fighter bomber in flight over water, carrying two BLU-10 250 lb Napalm Bombs. A Marine A-4 Skyhawk jet aircraft dives down and drops a bomb that explodes with large fireball and black smoke. Closeup of an A-4 in flight. View of pilot in cockpit and sound of conversation with ground controllers. Pilot asks if there are any more requests from the "grunts." Anachronistic Inserted images of two Marine F-4 aircraft from VMFA 232 (Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 232). They display "Red Devil" insignia on their sides. (They flew ground support in F-4s from Chu Lai Air base, Vietnam, commencing 1969.) View shifts to Marines "Grunts" in sandy area, with one communicating by radio. Next, a jet fighter bomber swoops down and unloads bombs that explode in succession on the ground. Marines in heavily sandbagged trenches. A jet fighter flies low overhead at very high speed. Another succession of bomb bursts is seen. Sea-going Marines arrive and exit Boeing CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters, at landing zone. Views of Marines exiting the choppers and then a variety of views of CH-46s in flight. Closeup of one in flight. View of interior, with a squad of Marines, inside, in battle gear. CH-46s landing and taking off.

Date: 1967
Duration: 2 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046343
U.S. Airmen work at 819th CES construction area of the RMK and 819th Civil Engineering Squadron Air Force base project,Vietnam

U.S. Airman enters a nearly completed billet at 819th CES construction area of the RMK and 819th Civil Engineering Squadron Air Force base project. USAF truck parked in front of the billet. Sign board on a building reads 'Paint Shop'. Airman walks. Incomplete billet and a backhoe loader in background. Airman cuts signs from card board . Airmen work at a nearly completed billet. Airman fuels a USAF truck at POL depot. (Vietnam War period).

Date: 1966, September 24
Duration: 2 min 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675025461
819th CES construction area at RMK and 819th Civil Engineering Squadron Air Force base project,Vietnam

Airman fuels a USAF truck at POL depot in 819th CES construction area of the RMK and 819th Civil Engineering Squadron Air Force base project. Yellow colored tanker in background. USAF transport trucks parked near carpenter shop and lumbar yard. Stacks of wooden planks and blocks at the lumbar yard. Inflatable storage facility. Colonel John B Rose Jr observes airmen at work. (Vietnam War period).

Date: 1966, September 24
Duration: 2 min 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675025462
Dining hall at 819th CES construction area of the RMK and 819th Civil Engineering Squadron Air Force base project,Vietnam

View of the dining hall at 819th CES construction area of the RMK and 819th Civil Engineering Squadron Air Force base project. Airmen pass by the dining hall building. Garbage cans at backside of the dining hall building. Airmen dump leftover food and waste in the garbage cans. Personnel leave dining hall and clean mess kits. (Vietnam War period).

Date: 1966, September 24
Duration: 2 min 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675025463