U.S. Navy aircraft in Vietnam during Operation Market Time of the Vietnam War. A small island in silhouette during the approach to Phu Quoc. Land as seen through the nose of an aircraft. A shoreline as seen from the aircraft. Rain squall as seen off to the right. A gunner fires a machine gun in the waist hatch of the aircraft.
U.S. troops near Phu Bai fire base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. U.S. soldiers help each other with ammunition. Soldiers move out for night defensive positions (NDPs). A radio operator at work. A soldier looks through binoculars.
U.S. troops near Phu Bai fire base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. A Machete (sword) in the ground. A human skull lying on the ground. A U.S. soldier puts sunglasses on the skull. Soldiers advance up a hill to take up NDPs (night defensive positions). The soldiers sitting and resting.
U.S. troops near Phu Bai fire base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Soldiers advance up a hill to take up NDPs (night defensive positions). They move out to new positions. Soldiers sitting and resting. A U.S. Army UH-1D Iroquois helicopter in flight. Colored smoke rises from a signal grenade explosion. The UH-1D Iroquois helicopter comes in for a landing. Aerial views of soldiers moving over a mountainous terrain.
Broad view of the valley in which the Phu Cat base is taking shape during construction. Many structures are already complete. Hills visible in distance. Areas of newly cleared earth visible. Carpenters seen on roof of a building being framed, in a row of wooden buildings. Closeup of U.S. Airmen (members of 819th Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineers, AKA RED HORSE). They are installing corrugated asbestos cement roofing sheets on a new building. View of Airmen on ground handing roofing sheets up to installers. View of a man in fatigues and cap smoking a cigarette, as he watches the airmen work. (He wears no military insignia, and is possibly a civilian working with the onstruction consortium: RMK-BRJ (Raymond International & Morrison-Knudsen, Brown & Root & J.A. Jones Construction.) The Airmen of 819th pause for the camera, then reach out and install some more roofing panels.
U.S. 3rd Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division base camp operations in Phu Bai near Hue, Vietnam. Truck convoy enters gate of the camp. Soldiers wave from truck. Vietnamese young boys and girls fill sandbags. Soldiers look on. Soldier load sandbags onto a truck. (Vietnam War period).