An aircraft flies over Mekong delta in Saigon and a few ships are seen including a United States ship labelled 'States Marine Lines'. Aircraft flies over areas of port construction where numerous small boats are anchored at the port as other ships come in and move away. Vehicles pass over a bridge built over the river as aircraft flies over derricks and cranes. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. Army 1st Infantry division soldiers get off CH-47 Chinook helicopter during Operation Cedar Falls in villages of Ben Suc, South Vietnam. Jeep unloaded from another CH-47 helicopter. Villagers leave their homes and walk along road. Soldiers cautiously cross field. A combat photographer walks along with them. Soldiers fire M-60 machine guns and M-14 rifles into brush. (Vietnam War period).
Villagers grouped in assembly area during Operation Cedar Falls in Binh Duong province, South Vietnam. U.S. Army 1st Infantry Division photographers take still pictures of Vietcong suspects. (Vietnam War period).
Two U.S. Army 1st Infantry Division soldiers rest along jungle trail during Operation Cedar Falls in Binh Duong province, South Vietnam. Soldier searches at entrance to tunnel. Soldier uses flamethrower to set fire to captured rice cache. Soldiers advance along trail at edge of jungle. One of the men rides a captured Vietcong bicycle. (Vietnam War period).
South Vietnamese farmers spray rice field with pesticide before the U.S. Vietnam War. Farmers pound rice using a foot-powered rice pounder. Steam shovel bucket scoops rubble. Vietnamese miners strip mining coal. They push a cart filled with coal. A man extracts natural rubber from a tree. Workers at a latex processing facility. South Vietnamese women working at a textile factory with a large loom. United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower addresses the graduates at Gettysburg College in April 4, 1959. “We have learned, too, that the cost of defending freedom--of defending America--must be paid in many forms and in many places. They are assessed in all parts of the world--in Berlin, in Viet-Nam, in the Middle East--here at home.” President Eisenhower said. South Vietnamese men line up to enlist and gather their uniforms. Newly enlisted South Vietnamese soldiers climb into a truck for transport.
South Vietnamese civilians escaping Vietnam during the fall of Saigon to the North Vietnamese, at the end of the Vietnam War. USS Blue Ridge (LCC-19) maneuvering off shore of South Vietnam. Flotilla of small Vietnamese civilian boats carrying evacuees approach the USS Blue Ridge. U.S. Navy sailors take lines from the boats and help refugees to board the US Navy ship.
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