Film of Live Fire exercises involving Republic of Vietnam Regional and Popular Forces (RF/PF). They run along a river bank and then take up defensive position in a sandbagged bunker. Pre-planted munitions explode close around them. View of Republic of Vietnam flag fluttering from pole at river bank. Boats in the background. RF/PF fire their M-16 rifles. A pretender Viet Cong attacks the RF/PF and is "Killed." (Vietnam War period).
New class of replacements go through the 3 day course at the 1st Air Cavalry Division Combat Training Center in Vietnam. Replacements inspect AH-1G helicopter parked on an airstrip in Vietnam. Views of the interior of helicopter. Soldiers watch the instrument panel of the helicopter. (Vietnam War period).
Aftermath of Vietcong attack on Camp Holloway assigned to 52nd Aviation Battalion, Army Support Command in Vietnam. A sign on a building reads 'Camp Holloway Airfield Operations'. Major General Delk M Oden talks with an unidentified two-star Vietnamese officer and Major General Nguyen Khanh on an airstrip. C-123 taxis to a stop. Commander, U.S. Military Assistance, Vietnam General William C Westmoreland and Mr George Bundy, Special Assistant to President for National Security get off a plane. They talk with Major General Khanh. Great seal of U.S. on the side of the plane. (Vietnam War period).
Aftermath of Vietcong attack on Camp Holloway assigned to 52nd Aviation Battalion, Army Support Command in Vietnam. Major General Nguyen Khanh, Commander, U.S. Military Assistance, Vietnam General William C Westmoreland and McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to President for National Security on an inspection tour. Others follow. Blown tire on plane landing gear. A hole in steel mat. General Khanh talks to Mr Bundy. General Westmoreland talks to General Khanh and Major General Delk M Oden. Rubbish strewn about. Ragged holes in blown roof of American quarters. (Vietnam War period).
United States Army 1st Infantry Division nicknamed 'Big Red One' arrives at the beach. American color guard on a beach in Vietnam. General William C Westmoreland, Commander General, U.S. Army, Vietnam, on the beach landing area. Major General Jonathan O Seaman, Commander General 1st Infantry Division, on beach. He converses with Brigadier General John "Jack" Norton, Commander of the 1st Air Cavalry Division and Colonel Curt Aronson of his Division. .A Landing Craft Utility (LCU) arrives carrying the first contingent of the 1st Infantry Division. As the troops disembark, General Westmoreland shakes hands with first two soldiers. The soldiers carry barrack bags. Remainder of the film shows troops offloading from the LCU and making their way across the sand past the Generals and the color guard.(Vietnam War period).
Aftermath of the Tet Offensive bombing on United States Embassy (4 Le Duan Blvd., District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) in Saigon, Vietnam. Blasted roofs of wrecked buildings across the street of the United States Embassy. Extreme damage inside the building. Smashed building and broken windows. Rubble strewn about in the building. Blood on glass top of desk. Rubble in offices and wrecked furniture. Vietnam map hanging askew.
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