Troops from unit D/3/7 of the U.S. 199th Light Infantry Brigade, patrol streets in the Cholon district of Saigon, Vietnam. Local people go about ordinary activities. A man carrying a white flag containing a red cross, emerges from an alley, leading several others carrying a red coffin. A man on a Honda motor scooter drives past. A woman sits on the back of the scooter. A man rides past on a three wheel pedicab, with baggage loaded in passenger seat, as the funeral cortege enters the street. The U.S. Army patrol continues along a dirt road. Closeup of one of the soldiers with full field pack. Commander of the unit, 1st Lieutenant Jim Gentile, stops and gives directions, pointing with his hands. Seen next, in quick succession are Dewey Edwards (from the Baltimore MD area) and then Bob Cheatham, carrying an M79 grenade launcher and wearing a belt of ammunition over his shoulder. lieutenant Gentile on a radiophone, and then leading soldiers into a house. Infantryman Bob Cheatham and others searching the house for evidence of Viet Cong. Two soldiers comparing notes as they look over detailed maps. Soldiers walking in outdoor storage areas and past a group of Vietnamese working in a yard filled with large stone blocks. U.S. Soldiers in front of a French-style concrete house. (Vietnam War period).
A South Vietnamese attack on a Red Vietcong stronghold leads to the capture of smuggled weapons south of Saigon, Vietnam. A helicopter lands near South Vietnamese soldiers. A cache of arms. Soldiers near boxes of ammunition. An International Control Commission inspects the captured smuggled weapons. (Vietnam War period).
Construction work at the 3rd Field Military Hospital in Saigon, Vietnam. A hospital building under construction. Three ambulances parked in the premises. Construction in progress. Traffic moving along busy street on the right. Several vehicles in the foreground. Vietnamese workers wearing typical conical hats (“Non la”) and several in hard hats, work within the foundation of the hospital under construction. A worker uses a hand saw to rip a 2 X 4 piece of wood. A Vietnamese worker smooths cement on a masonry wall. '3rd field hospital' written on a building. A U.S. Army sentry with a rifle guards the entrance. (Note: Expansion of the hospital, which included a modern emergency facility and surgery suite, among other things, was managed by U.S. contractor, Pacific Architects and Engineers. Most of the construction workers on the project were Vietnamese.) (Vietnam War period).
Ngo Dinh Diem's Nationalist troops fire during a short battle in Saigon, South Vietnam. Wounded natives. Captured weapons on display. Nationalist Vietnamese soldiers stand and march. Vietnamese Army soldiers and sailors marching in South Vietnam, Indochina.
Black Virgin Mountain signal site near Lai Khe in South Vietnam. Signal site atop the mountain with bunkers, buildings and antennas. A U.S. 1st Infantry Division guard soldier with rifle alert on roof of the sandbagged bunker. Other soldiers keep an eye, alert with their rifles on top of the sandbagged bunkers. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. Army 1st Infantry soldiers move inside the jungles in Lai Khe, South Vietnam. Soldiers sit in a group at the jungle. One of them demonstrates the use of wireless radio telephone sets. The other soldiers listen to him carefully. Views of the radio backpack unit. One soldier holds portable radio units and examines them. He holds them near the backpack unit. (Vietnam War period).
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