U.S. soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Airborne Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade in South Vietnam during Operation Big Spring of the Vietnam War. Engineers at work in a jungle. They prepare a demolition charge. Some of the engineers place it into a cave. Soldiers walk along a jungle. Smoke from an explosion behind trees. A soldier holds the leash of a dog.
U.S. soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Airborne Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade in South Vietnam during Operation Big Spring of the Vietnam War. Soldiers advance through a jungle. They carry rifles and lifesaving combat bags. Trees in the foreground. They move into a clearing and prepare to set up for the night. A soldier digs a foxhole. Other soldiers erect radio antennas. A man talks over a phone.
A search and destroy mission of U.S. 9th Infantry Division, 47th Infantry, 3rd Battalion in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Soldiers move across a grass field. They prepare plastic explosives for a Vietcong bunker. The explosives are placed in the bunker. The bunker explodes. The soldiers cross a grass field. They wade through knee deep water across a stream and struggle up a muddy embankment.
A search and destroy mission of U.S. 9th Infantry Division, 47th Infantry, 3rd Battalion in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Soldiers wade through waist deep water across a stream and struggle up a muddy embankment. They cross a muddy field. The soldiers speak over a radio and check a map. They struggle through mud and water of a rice paddy. The soldiers look at maps. They continue across the muddy field.
A search and destroy mission of U.S. 9th Infantry Division, 47th Infantry, 3rd Battalion in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. A soldier crosses a muddy field. Soldiers in deep mud. A soldier covered with mud rests. He drinks from a canteen. A soldier wearing a raincoat eats C-rations. The soldiers move across an open field. Soldiers standing on a vehicle. The U.S. flag at mast.
A search and destroy mission of U.S. 9th Infantry Division, 47th Infantry, 3rd Battalion in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Soldiers search a hut. Two soldiers sitting on tombstones. Soldiers walk in a rice paddy. Two women walk along on a dike. Vietcong suspects cross a narrow wooden plank across a stream. The soldiers follow the suspects. The suspects are questioned and their papers are checked. They are released. A water buffalo in a paddy. Soldiers standing near a hut. A Viet family in the doorway.
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