Activities of the United States Army 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry, 4th Infantry Division soldiers during Operation Francis Marion in the Central Highlands in Pleiku area, South Vietnam. Soldiers walk with a sick soldier in the jungle during the Vietnam War. United States Army UH-1D Iroquois helicopter in flight in the far background. The helicopter lands for evacuation of sick soldiers. Sick soldier having malaria is led to the helicopter. He is helped aboard the helicopter and takes off.
Activities of the United States Army 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry, 4th Infantry Division soldiers during Operation Francis Marion in the Central Highlands in Pleiku area, South Vietnam. Current flows through jungle foliage during the Vietnam War. Soldiers relax in the jungle. They use machetes to clear dense jungle for camp site. Claymore mine at a tree stump.
Activities of the United States Army 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry, 4th Infantry Division soldiers during Operation Francis Marion in the Central Highlands in Pleiku area, South Vietnam. Bunkers and tents at the camp area in the background. Soldier sharpens his machete. Soldier uses a compass as a mirror for shaving. Other soldier washes himself with water from his helmet. Some of the soldiers rest, read Stars and Stripes. They clean their weapons.
U.S. General Officers planning for the U.S. Army 101st Air Cavalry Division's Operation Somerset Plain ( A Search and Destroy Mission to prevent North Vietnam Army elements from reentering the A Shau Valley, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam). U.S. Officers including Major General Melvin Zais, Brigadier General John, S Lekson, Marine Major General C B Drake discussing a map with Lieutenant Colonel Daniel G. Sharp, Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion, 502 Infantry Regiment. August,1968. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. Air Force C-130 airdrop operations in 1968, during Vietnam War. C-130 aircraft in flight. View of supplies being airdropped. View from inside cabin of a C-130, as South Vietnamese paratroopers jump from the aircraft. A heavy pallet of supplies being pulled onto a runway by parachutes, from the rear of a low-flying C-130. Scene shifts to October 14, 1973,at Lod International Airport, Tel Aviv, Israel, where a U.S. Air Force Military Airlift Command C-5 aircraft is unloading 186,200 pounds of military assistance cargo, at the start of the U.S. "Nickel Grass" airlift operation during the Yom Kippur war or Arab-Israeli War of 1973. Pallets of ammunition are seen being offloaded, followed by a 175mm self-propelled gun, covered with wooden cargo boxes. Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir and other observers watch stand on the airport ramp. Golda Meir meets and greets members of the U.S. Air Force crew.
Activities of the United States Army 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry, 4th Infantry Division soldiers during Operation Francis Marion in the Central Highlands in Pleiku area, South Vietnam. Soldiers, of Charlie Company 1/22 4th Infantry Division, breaking camp as they prepare to move out of the area. Tents being dismantled and personal gear assembled.
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