U.S. Army Operation Piranha on the White Beach, Cap Batangan, Vietnam. Armored personnel carriers LVTP-5s (Landing Vehicle Tracked, Personnel) in water. One LVTP-5 underway near the side of a ship. Three LCTP-5s and one LCM-10 (Landing Craft, Mechanized) underway. An APD (high speed transport ship) at anchor. A man in a boat over the telephone. A U.S. Navy Sikorsky UH-34D helicopter on the deck of an LSD (Landing Ship, Dock). UH-34D takes off from USS Cabildo (LSD-16). (Vietnam War period).
U.S. Marines at a field communication center on the White beach during Operation Piranha in Cap Batangan, Vietnam. Marines sit on the beach. A marine on the beach talks over a phone. A marine unit around the field communications center. Marines sit around on the beach. One in the foreground talks over a phone. Two small boys, one carrying a smaller child in his arms, move down the beach. A large group of civilians being huddled on the beach by the marines. All civilians are wearing black and are under heavy guard. (Vietnam War period).
Landing of U.S. Marines and offloading of vehicles during Operation Piranha in Cap Batangan, Vietnam. Marines drive mechanical mules on the dry beach area. LVTP-5s on the beach, one lowers its ramp. A mechanical mule off-loads from the LVTP-5. A corpsman bandages a woman's arm. LCM-10 (Landing Craft, Mechanized) in the surf. The marines wade through the deep surf towards the beach area. Anti-tank vehicle Ontos off-loading from an LVTP-5. (Vietnam War period).
Operation Piranha at White Beach in Cap Batangan, Vietnam. United States Marine personnel moving down combination ladder of the USS Bayfield (APA-33) with their packs and rifles. Marines board a waiting LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel) alongside. LCVP in water. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. President Richard Nixon speaks about aftermath of immediate withdrawal from the Vietnam War. U.S. military prisoners of war held by North Vietnam stand before press reporters in Vietnam. President confers with U.S. Secretary of State Dr. Henry Kissinger at his office. Vietnam War draftees being selected by traditional lottery system. Men stand in front of machines that churn out numbered balls for new draft lottery system. Nixon transforms budget expenditure on human needs. Criminals caught by police walk, some covering their faces from the media, as they are led away by police and investigators. Illegal drugs seized by efforts of Nixon administration. View of seized heroin manufacturing equipment. Nixon speaks about the opium farming in Turkey during one of his speeches and mentions agreement with the Turkish government in Ankara to cease all opium poppy production. Customs officers check illegal drug traffic on the border of Mexico and America. Drug enforcement officials search cargo hold of a ship for illegal drugs. Views of drug control officers finding illegal stashed hidden drugs in hiding places in cars and vehicles. Nixon speaks about increased budget to control illegal drug traffic and rehabilitation of drug abusers and drug addicts. He creates the office of Drug Abuse Enforcement and he speaks saying "We must wage what I have called Total War against public enemy number one in the United States: The problem of dangerous drugs." From a pro-Nixon "documentary" called "The Nixon Years: Change Without Chaos" covering President Richard Nixon's first four years in office. Released during his 1972 reelection campaign.
Quaker-sponsored American pacifists sail from Misaki, Japan to bring medical supplies to North Vietnam, during the Vietnam War. Yacht "Phoenix of Hiroshima" at a dock in a Japanese harbor, before starting the first of its three trips bringing aid to both North and South Vietnam. Seven American pacifists from "A Quaker Action Group" (AQAG) set sail in the "Phoenix of Hiroshima" bound for the North Vietnamese port of Haiphong, on the group's first of three voyages. A flag flies from the yacht. Views of some of the participants on the boat including Phil Drath, Betty Boardman, Dr. and Mrs. Earle Reynolds, and Bob Eaton. People on the dock wave as the yacht leaves the harbor heading to Vietnam.
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