President Richard Nixon's press conference at White House in Washington DC. A press reporter questions about entry of U.S. forces in Cambodia. Nixon mentions faulty policies of former President Lyndon B Johnson. A reporter asks Nixon for his responsibility to save lives of American soldiers. Nixon says that if North Vietnamese, allowed to carry on their atrocities in South Vietnam than U.S. would loose faith of all nations. (Vietnam War period).
Evacuation of ethnic Vietnamese refugees from Cambodia, escaping massacres of Vietnamese by Cambodian forces during the Vietnam War. Trucks loaded with baggage and refugees wait for an aircraft. The refugees walk up a ramp to an American aircraft. Doors of the aircraft are closed. The aircraft takes off, bound for South Vietnam. The refugees seated on the ground. A truck loaded with the refugees and belongings.
ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam) military training centers and schools in Vietnam. South Vietnamese cadets train at a training center. A hootch in a simulated Vietcong village. A sign on the hootch reads 'Ntram Thong Tin'. Several pictures and papers put up at various spots in the hootch. ARVN cadets enter and inspect the hootch. One cadet is shot and wounded. The other cadets help move the wounded cadet away from the hootch. (Vietnam War period).
United States and South Vietnamese soldiers defend Kontum during the Nguyen Hue Campaign of the Vietnam War. The Kontum airfield seen through concertina wire. United States Air Force C-123 Provider transport aircraft parked on the airfield. A C-123 taxis and takes off. The runway at the airfield. Hills in the background. Aerial view of the surrounding area. A C-123 taxis and takes off. The aircraft in flight. A C-123 lands at the airfield. Soldiers on a road.
Opening slate reads: "Operation Rio Grande" and shows partial date of "11-2....." (The complete date is November 20-27, 1967, when this Search and Destroy mission was launched by the U.S. Marines 5th and 7th Brigades with South Vietnamese forces support during the Vietnam War.) A U.S. Marine jet aircraft dives low and drops a bomb on a Viet Cong position. View from overflying CH-46A helicopter of others maneuvering low over rice paddies, where smoke rises from some small fires, possibly from helicopter M60 machine gun fire. Helicopters parked with rotors turning on a large open field. Helicopters maneuvering low above the ground, and then climbing and departing the area.
Fall of Saigon and evacuation of Americans and South Vietnamese escaping Vietnam at end of Vietnam War. US Navy crew members seen pushing UH-1D/H Huey helicopters and a CH-47 helicopter over the side of the ship, to make room on the deck for a Cessna O-1 (unseen), with evacuees, seeking to land.
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