The U.S. Army launches its operation in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. The U.S. 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team soldiers fire the M252, 81mm mortar. Soldier takes out mortar shells from the casing. He puts tapes on fins and places them on ground. The soldiers walk through tall grass. Soldiers wade across shallow stream.
Captured rice is used to feed Vietnamese orphans in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. An army truck loaded with bags of rice underway on a narrow road. A jeep with three personnel on board moves through a small town. Two men seated in front of the U.S. Army truck driven through a town. The jeep moves down a main street. The army truck loaded with rice on a highway. A white star insignia on the side of the truck. The jeep leads a convoy. A sign over a gate. The convoy passes through the gate of an orphanage at Thu Duc. The convoy moves down a road. A young boy offers a bottle of coca cola and a glass of ice to one of the army personnel.
Captured rice is used to feed Vietnamese orphans in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. The statue of Virgin Mary in an orphanage yard. Father John Hien, a Vietnamese catholic priest and the director of Father John's Orphanage, stands next to the statue and thanks men of U.S. 25th division for delivering rice. A long banner being placed by the Vietnamese. Bowls of rice on a table in the orphanage yard. Several big and small bowls of rice on the table.
Airmen of 334th Armed Helicopter Company attack hidden Vietcong soldiers near Saigon in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Airmen load a military helicopter with weapons. They fire mini guns and 2.75-inch rockets on the target area near Saigon. Smoke rises from the target area. A crewman assesses the damage.
North Vietnamese Vietminh establishing along the 17th Parallel following the Geneva Accords in 1954. Early morning street scene in Vietnam. Very few people about. A street cleaner at work. Shops lining the street. Many with signs in French. A man rolls a hand cart along the street. Buildings shown. Street sign refers to Grand Boulevard. Cattle walking along a street. Two French soldiers standing and a Vietnamese man sitting in front of a French hospital. An almost empty residential street. An old woman in black squatting in a doorway. Two women outside a barbed wire barrier. One scavenges in leaves on sidewalk. A boy and girl pose. Group of Viet Minh supporters, dressed in black, have difficulty carrying two North Vietnamese flags in a stiff breeze. Vietminh troops marching along a wet road, and across a railroad bridge. Several French officers walking with the leaders of the Vietminh troops. On the other side of the bridge, they pass a parked French armored car. Back on the bridge, a translater introduces a French officer to two Viet Minh Commanders who shake hands with him. North Vietnamese school children march through a makeshift Vietminh gateway and cross a railroad track. Others march alongside a railroad. A teacher and some students carry Vietminh flags. A brisk wind is blowing. The Vietnamese people gather in an open market place, near a river (possibly the Ben Hai River), where the Vietminh flag is flown. Villager placing Vietminh flag on her house. Many Vietminh flags flying. A market stall displaying pictures of Ho Chi Minh and Mao Zedong (aka Mao Tse-tung) for sale. Group of children pose by the pictures. Street scene in a town. Vietnamese people on sidewalks near shops. Signs are in French, but Vietminh flags fly on shops. The Lycee Albert Sarraut lyceum building in Hanoi, Vietnam. Vietnamese youth entering the school.
Activities of the U.S. 3rd Marine Corps Division at South West of Con Thien in Vietnam during Operation Prairie III of the Vietnam War. Marines some with packs, some with PRC-25 radios on backs. They carry weapons and move forward across the grass field. The marines head towards dwelling in lightly wooded area in far background. The marines move across small busy area and into dirt clearings. Smoldering ashes of dwelling in the background. Three marines one with PRC-25 radio on back stands in a cultivated field and talk. One marine armed with M-14 rifle. Other marines walk past smoldering ashes of dwelling in the far background. Some of the marines stand and exit near thatched dwelling, as roof begins to burn, as seen over the bushes. One of the marine holds phone of PRC-25 radio on back to move over dirt path. Vietnamese dwelling burns in the background. A view of several burning thatched dwellings and marines of 'K' company move over dirt path. Other dwellings burning in far background. One marine moves over dirt path and walks out. Several other marines from 'K' company 3/3 move past several burning thatched dwellings of the village.
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