Major General William R Peers Commanding General of 4th Infantry Division on stage with Bob Hope troupe members at camp Enari in Pleiku, South Vietnam. Bob Hope with Racquel Welch, Barbara McNair, Madilne Hatroge Bell and Elain Dunn at the stage. Bob speaks after General. General presents plaque to Bob. A soldier reads from paper. Barbara sings. Soldiers sit and watch. Soldiers at the site after the show. Soldier's band plays. (Vietnam War period).
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. Pup tents and lean-tos of jungle camp. Two soldiers relax at shelter, one writes a letter. Improvised shelter set up for the night.
Activities of U.S. soldiers in Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry, 4th Infantry Division, during Operation Francis Marion in the Central Highlands in Pleiku area, South Vietnam. Soldiers in battle gear and carrying full packs,walk through jungle underbrush. Closeups of some as they pass. The camera pans over the terrain and then records their progress in numerous views as they proceed through the jungle. At one point a soldier steps over a narrow stream. Next several are seen near a wide stream, where two stop to wash themselves and cool off. Next, a half dozen soldiers are seen bathing in a broader section of water, about one or two feet deep. They also "horse around,"splashing water on one another. Later, some sit in the stream. Two shave their faces. Others are dressing on the river bank. One is seen washing clothes. The camera pans along a section of the stream that is narrower and faster moving.
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 in jungle to a water point during the Vietnam War. They fill canteens at a stream. A soldier on guard. Soldiers walk through the dense foliage on return to camp with canteens.
The U.S. 1st Cavalry Division prior to the Siege of Plei Me in Pleiku, Vietnam. Trucks on the road. Soldiers walk towards the trucks in the foreground. A wounded sergeant being attended by medics in field. A medic works on the sergeants leg. Wrecked truck hit by a land mine. A wounded sergeant lying on ground and smoke a cigarette. The Sergeant is lifted on litter and carried to Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter. Wounded sergeant is taken out from Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter and is carried to ambulance in Pleiku. A sign reads 'Camp Holloway Dispensary,52D Med Sect,94th MedDet(OA).' (Vietnam War period).
Excerpt from film entitled "Counterattack- Marine Air Ground Team," about U.S. Marines in the Vietnam War. Marines are seen walking cautiously across irrigation ditches in cultivated region of South Vietnam. Scene shifts to one marine looking down at a hole where smoke is rising at the base of a berm. Vietnamese families evacuating their village where marines are burning houses and huts. View from riverbank strung with barbed wire, where marines are relaxing while gunfire is heard and black smoke rises from fires burning across the river. Next, a city is seen jammed with Vietnamese refugees with their belongings (some being assisted by ARVN soldiers) making their way through the crowds. A fallen civilian seen on the ground, victim of the Viet Cong (VC). Buildings and places of worship severely damaged by the VC. A bearded old Vietnamese man wearing a non la (conical hat) and smoking a cigarette, is questioned by a U.S. soldier. (Narrator says civilians are reluctant to say much for fear of reprisals.) Marines walking slowly through a village, and then through areas of trees and brush, open areas, and dense jungle. View of underbelly of a U.S. jet fighter bomber in flight over water, carrying two BLU-10 250 lb Napalm Bombs. A Marine A-4 Skyhawk jet aircraft dives down and drops a bomb that explodes with large fireball and black smoke. Closeup of an A-4 in flight. View of pilot in cockpit and sound of conversation with ground controllers. Pilot asks if there are any more requests from the "grunts." Anachronistic Inserted images of two Marine F-4 aircraft from VMFA 232 (Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 232). They display "Red Devil" insignia on their sides. (They flew ground support in F-4s from Chu Lai Air base, Vietnam, commencing 1969.) View shifts to Marines "Grunts" in sandy area, with one communicating by radio. Next, a jet fighter bomber swoops down and unloads bombs that explode in succession on the ground. Marines in heavily sandbagged trenches. A jet fighter flies low overhead at very high speed. Another succession of bomb bursts is seen. Sea-going Marines arrive and exit Boeing CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters, at landing zone. Views of Marines exiting the choppers and then a variety of views of CH-46s in flight. Closeup of one in flight. View of interior, with a squad of Marines, inside, in battle gear. CH-46s landing and taking off.
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