Navy Lieutenant exchanges salutes and receives reports from junior officers aboard the USS Harnett County (LST-821) anchored 2 miles from the mouth of the Co Chien River in the Mekong Delta of South Vietnam. Crew members don helmets and board riverine patrol boats. View from a patrol boat as it is underway. (LST 821 and another patrol boat are in background.) Closeup of gunner setting up his twin M2HB .50 caliber (12.7 mm) machine guns. Two patrol boats speeding across the water. Closeup of several crewmen in one of the boats. The second boat pulling up close to port, astern of the first boat. View from land as both boats enter a narrow river. closeup of the U.S. flag flying in the breeze. The patrol boats pass a Vietnamese family of 9 persons, in a wooden boat. Views of other local Vietnamese and their boats and dwellings along the river banks. A local ferryboat carrying many Vietnamese people. Patrol boat members watching activity with binoculars. One has his M16 rifle at the ready. The crew signals to a wooden Vietnamese boat flying the South Vietnam flag, which approaches and presents a document. The crew searches the boat and occupants for Viet Cong persons or supplies. Views of the patrol boat stopping and searching a number of small open wood boats and occupants. The Americans give small gifts to some of them, especially to any children. Closeup of a mother with several children in their boat. Closeups of individual Patrol Boat crew members, in relaxed moments, smoking, eating, and simply sitting as the boat cruises along the river. The U.S. flag fluttering. Dramatic view of clouds, gray sky, and wake of the boat in the water.
UH-1D helicopters land on a field in Ankhe, South Vietnam. American 173D Airborne Brigade troops rush off. Platoon leader checks map. Crew sets up 81mm mortar. Red smoke flare burns amidst bushes. Soldiers move through wooded area. (Vietnam War period).
A UH-1D helicopter takes off from a signal site of the American Signal Battalion in Ankhe, South Vietnam. Troop tents in the foreground. View of damage done to the site. Soldier examines a fire-damaged 35mm still camera and shows it to other soldier. Partly destroyed tent. Soldiers search through rubble. UH-1D helicopter lands. (Vietnam War period).
View of a sandbagged bunker at a signal site of the American Signal Battalion in Ankhe, South Vietnam. Vietcong flag flutters. OH-13 helicopter flies past the area. CH-47 in flight. OH-13 lands atop mountain. Soldiers stand near log fence. View of antennas of the signal station. Soldier carries reel of wire in the foreground. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. 1st Air Cavalry Division troops rappel from hovering army helicopters in Ankhe, South Vietnam. Troops climb a rope ladder hanging from a helicopter. Troops board the helicopter. Troops descend from the helicopter by the rope ladder. (Vietnam War period).
View of three different types of recoilless rifle shells at a sandbagged emplacement in Ankhe South Vietnam. One of the shells reads '90M COMP B CART ME XM591'. U.S. Army 1st Air Cavalry Division soldier loads a shell into a recoilless weapon mounted on the shoulders of another soldier. The armed soldier looks through the scope of the launcher. (Vietnam War period).
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