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Firefighters prepare to enter area still burning on USS Oriskany (CVA-34) in South China Sea, off Vietnam
Fire aboard the aircraft carrier, USS Oriskany (CVA-34) from accident with flares. Latter stages of fire, with smoke still rising slightly on flight deck and from forward area starboard, below the flight deck. Sailors standing on flight deck with fire hoses laying all over the deck area. Man looks down the edge of the deck area. Firefighters donning Oxygen Breathing Apparatus (OBA) standing in the Sponson deck. They check each others equipment and prepare to enter the area of lingering fire. Smoke emerging from that area below the flight deck.
Vietnamese refugees evacuated while U.S. and South Vietnamese soldiers conduct a FAC mission in Kontum.
MACV (US Military Assistance Command, Vietnam) Advisory Team assists South Vietnamese soldiers in the evacuation of refugees from Kontum during the Nguyen Hue Campaign of the Vietnam War. Vietnamese refugees board a U.S. Army Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter. The helicopter takes off. The chopper in flight at sunset. U.S. and South Vietnamese soldiers inside a U.S. Army Bell UH-1D Iroquois helicopter during a FAC mission over Kontum. A soldier on the radio in the chopper. A battery on the helicopter floor. The pilot at controls in the cockpit. Aerial view of craters and terrain damage from a bomb strike. Smoke due to fire from explosions.
MACV Advisory Team loads supplies into a CH-47 helicopter as Vietnamese refugees await evacuation in Kontum, Vietnam.
MACV (US Military Assistance Command, Vietnam) Advisory Team assists South Vietnamese soldiers in the evacuation of refugees from Kontum during the Nguyen Hue Campaign of the Vietnam War. Aerial view of the Kontum airfield. A burning aircraft on the ground. South Vietnamese ammunition trucks caught in NVA (North Vietnamese Army) ambush. Smoking and exploding ordinance. Vietnamese defensive positions in Kontum City and in the surrounding terrain. A U.S. Colonel talking on the radio during an inspection flight in a U.S. Army UH-1D Iroquois or 'Huey' helicopter. Billowing smoke on Highway QL 14. A U.S. Army Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter landing at a helipad in the area. MACV (US Military Assistance Command, Vietnam) Advisory Team assists in the evacuation of refugees from Kontum. The team loads supplies into the helicopter. South Vietnamese refugees waiting to board helicopter for evacuation. A Vietnamese soldier talks to the refugees.
President Lyndon B Johnson talks about Vietnam in his address at the John Hopkins University in Baltimore.
President Lyndon B Johnson gives a speech at the John Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD 21218, United States) in Baltimore. He talks about U.S. relations with South Vietnam, peace talks and proposes an aid program. He offers to hold diplomatic discussions to end the war in Vietnam. He states the need for an independent South Vietnam. “Such peace demands an independent South Viet-Nam—securely guaranteed and able to shape its own relationships to all others—free from outside interference—tied to no alliance—a military base for no other country.” President Johnson said. The President calls upon South East Asia nations for a co-operative economic drive, and asks the United Nations and nations like the Soviet Union to join in. “For our part I will ask the Congress to join in a billion-dollar American investment in this effort as soon as it is underway. And I would hope that all other industrialized countries, including the Soviet Union, will join in this effort to replace despair with hope, and terror with progress.” President Johnson said. Men working with heavy machinery in a South East Asian industrial plant. View of working men constructing a modern bridge in Vietnam. Vietnamese farmer threshing harvested rice. A doctor examines a Vietnamese man. The crowd applauds the President's speech. Views of Vietnamese people working on farms, in technical and scientific laboratories, and industrialization in Vietnam. A European or American professor teaches a Vietnamese student inside a laboratory. Vietnamese women working inside a textile factory. Vietnamese farmers carrying produce. President Johnson quotes from the book of Deuteronomy in the Bible. “We may well be living in the time foretold many years ago when it was said: “I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live.” Well, we will choose life. In so doing we will prevail over the enemies within man, and over the natural enemies of all mankind.” President Johnson concludes his speech.
Various South Vietnamese and American aircraft at Tan Son Nhut Air Base during the Vietnam War.
Different types of American and Vietnamese aircraft at Tan Son Nhut Air Base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. United States Air Force A-1H Skyraider aircraft taxi followed by USAF C-123K Provider, C-7A Caribou aircraft and U-10A Helio Courier aircraft. C-46 Commando aircraft taxi followed by Air Vietnam DC-6 aircraft. VNAF A-1Hs taxi. DC-6 parked as a U-10A Helio Courier taxis past. U-1A Otter parked. A USAF Lockheed C-130E Hercules taxis. VNAF A-1Hs waiting for take off. Airlift 727 and C-130E Hercules aircraft taxi past an inter-section of a road and a runway as seen from a truck.
Gulf of Tonkin response: President Johnson announces U.S. action as United States soldiers and aircraft are rushed to Vietnam
United States planes and soldiers are rushed to Vietnam, responding to the Gulf of Tonkin crisis. U.S. Destroyer Maddox seen underway in the gulf of North Vietnam following reported skirmish with North Vietnamese torpedo boats (the "Maddox Incident.") Narrator indicates U.S. war planes from two carriers avenged the unwarranted Red communist assault with 64 sorties against North Vietnam. An airman boards a U.S. aircraft. Night view of the White House in Washington DC. President Lyndon Johnson addresses the American people in a midnight speech on August 4, 1964 describing U.S. actions in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident. Scenes of South Vietnamese women and children evacuees looking exhausted and scared beside nearby American helicopters. The President's speech continues, including, "We Americans know, although others appear to forget, the risks of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war." View of the United Nations building in New York and flags of various nations at the UN building. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson is seen making his report of the Gulf of Tonkin attacks to the UN Security Council and affirms U.S. position that it wants the people in Vietnam to be free of North Vietnamese intervention and agression. United States military advisors and U.S. Army soldiers board helicopters. A gunner aims at a target on the ground. Vietnamese troops accompany U.S. soldiers. South Vietnamese forces exit a helicopter and wade through water and rice paddies. U.S. soldiers advance in trucks with artillery. A Douglas TBD Devastator aircraft takes off armed with a torpedo. Another one lands at an airfield. A TBD plane, armed with a torpedo, taxis with wings folded. several TBD aircraft parked on a flight line. The President concludes his remarks referring to "firmness in the right" being indispensible for peace. (Vietnam War period).
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