Aerial view of a small United States air strip in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. U.S. Air Force Fairchild C-123 Provider aircraft lands on a tiny airstrip. Vietnamese boys sitting watch the aircraft land. United States Air Force and South Vietnamese soldiers unload supplies from aircraft. Views of captured North Vietnamese Vietcong rebel soldiers. A vietcong prisoner squatting. Soldiers tie up captured Vietcong rebels lying down on aircraft floor. Soldiers assist North Vietnamese prisoners of war (POW) with hands tied behind their backs to exit helicopter after landing. A United States aircraft drops crates of supplies and cattle in flight. Cow mooing is heard. An officer communicates through walkie talkie. Crate parachutes activate during descent. Soldiers in Jeep. A Vietnamese soldier inspect cattle in crate.
U.S. Army 319th Artillery attached to 101st Airborne Division strengthens defenses of Fire Support Base Ripcord to combat North Vietnam forces in the A Shau Valley, South Vietnam, during the Vietnam War. Opening scene shows Captain David F. Rich, Commander of Battery B, 2nd Battalion, 319th Artillery, conversing with Lieutenant Brennan, in very windy conditions atop the Fire Support Base. The carriage of a 105mm towed howitzer is seen in the foreground, with two shells set on it. View of howitzers and shells stacked atop the Base. The wind whipping aross the Base. African American soldier working on a howitzer. Another fighting the wind, as he carries canisters of propellant charges. He tosses them behind the sandbagged artillery position. Other soldiers join in moving gunpowder canisters. Closeup of two soldiers as the wind blows the hat off one.
U.S. Fire Support Base Ripcord in the A Shau Valley, South Vietnam, under siege by North Vietnam Army forces during the Vietnam War. Several 105mm towed howitzers are positioned atop the base, with barrels at high elevations. Camera focuses on Gunners loading and firing one. The wind is blowing very hard, complicating their activity and causing the cameraman trouble too, as it buffets his camera. The camera views several guns operating in the battery. The Battery then level their guns to fire point blank at their targets. (They also increase their powder charge to 7, the maximum.) the resultant recoil strikes and injures SP/4 Bowing of a gun crew, who falls and is seen lying at the back of his gun. The crew calls for help and carries him to the ground. Cameraman stops filming briefly.. Next, a soldier is seen leaning over SP/4 Bowing, rendering aid.
Ethnic Vietnamese refugees are evacuated from Cambodia to Vung Tau, Vietnam during the Vietnam War, fleeing violence and massacres of ethnic Vietnamese in Cambodia. Trucks are lined up. Refugees carry belongings off a ship. The refugees walk with their belongings. Ships docked at a pier in South Vietnam. Cargo trucks in the foreground. South Vietnamese soldiers assist refugees and carry belongings on their shoulders. ARVN soldiers unload baggage from a truck. The refugees and baggage on the dock. RVNS Vung Tau (HQ-503) (formerly USS Cococino County) LST is docked and being unloaded. A U.S. soldier is hosing down two dogs.
Operations of U.S. Navy A-7A Corsair 2 aircraft aboard USS Ranger underway in the South China Sea during the Vietnam War. A shoulder patch on the right shoulder of Commander James Hill, Commanding Officer of VA-147. He gives a briefing to his pilots. A chart of Vietnam. Hands of Commander Hill holding a pointer and a cigar butt. Commander Hill with the pilots in a briefing room. The pilots listen to the briefing. A TV monitor is in the background, a picture on the screen. Commander Hill points to an aerial photograph tacked to a blackboard. A pilot talks during the briefing. Two pilots chat. A partial map of Vietnam, showing the east coast area. Commander Kinnear, CAG (Carrier Air Group) Commander, talks to a group. Commander Hill stands in the background.
A U.S. Army advisor holding an M2 carbine with enlarged 30-round magazine, as he trains South Vietnamese soldiers, seated nearby. Closeup of several American advisers, all displaying parachutist badges on their caps. An advisor going over a map with a South Vietnamese soldier, in the field. View of ARVN (Army of Republic of Vietnam) soldiers slogging through jungles, carrying weapons and gear. ARVN troops firing weapons as they cross field of tall grass. A Viet cong (VC) in black outfit with white conical hat, seen running. Troops running under heavy small arms fire. ARVN escorting captured VC, under guard. They have their arms tied back. Vietnamese tribesmen who were impressed into VC service, are seen, momentarily, seated on the ground. A medical clinic staffed by U.S medical personnel is seen treating local citizens, who form a line waiting to be seen.
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