Prime Minister of Japan Eisaku Sato visits Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Prime Minister of Japan Eisaku Sato arrives at the Saigon Tan Son Nhat International Airport (Truong Son, Phuong 2, Tan Binh, Thanh pho Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam). Prime Minister of South Vietnam, Nguyen Cao Ky and officials greet and receive him. Dignitaries walk past the lined-up troops. Large crowd of civilians gather at the airport to greet Prime Minister Sato. Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky addresses gathering. Dignitaries wave at the gathering from the reviewing stand.
Big Picture depicts the U.S. soldiers in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Paintings of United States soldiers and firing of artillery during the Vietnam War in Vietnam. A CH-47 helicopter lands at hilltop fire base. U.S. troops on patrol First Lieutenant leads a squad. They ignite orange smoke flare to mark landing zone for Huey chopper (Bell UH-1 helicopter) that lands and picks them up. View of squad inside helicopter. U.S. troops sweep for mines. U.S. tanks equipped for mine clearing. Huey chopper fires missiles. Tank fires artillery. U.S. artillerymen fire 155 mm long tom gun. Soldier fires fully automatic hand-held weapon.
A U.S. Air Force aircraft drops bombs on target areas during the Vietnam War in Vietnam. White smoke rises over fields due to napalm bursts in Vietnam. A U.S. Air Force A-1E aircraft drops bombs over huts along the sides of the canal in Toy Bien in Nam Phan Province in Vietnam. Smoke rises from the bombed areas. The aircraft in flight.
U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense David Packard on a tour of Vietnam. The official party arrives at the Naval Support Activity, Saigon. Binh Thuy Air Base administration building in the background. David Packard gets out of a car. He walks towards a U.S. Army UH-1H helicopter for flight to Cantho, Republic of Vietnam. The helicopter warms up. U.S. Vice Admiral Elmo Russell Zumwalt, Comnavforces, Vietnam gives a thumps up. An army officer boards the helicopter. It is ready for lift off. The plane director gives a signal for the lift off. The helicopter lifts off. Dignitaries stand in rain next to the helicopter at Cantho. Commodore Tran Van Chon, Chief of Naval Operations;Vietnamese Navy , in a rain coat. Mr Packard walks through the rain. Commodore Chon greets him. Mr Packard enters a car. He walks away from the car and moves into a building. Mr Packard and the party enters a small building. He gets into carry all. He leaves the doorway of the small building. He walks through mud and a sailor holds an umbrella over his head. He enters a small building and chats with unidentified naval officers. Mr Packard shakes hands with Vietnamese and other officers and prepares to leave from Ben Luc. (Vietnam War period).
President of the United States Lyndon Baines Johnson visits Cam Ranh Bay Air Base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Troops including all service color guards break formation and run towards platform. President Johnson addresses troops. Presidential seal on door of a United States Air Force aircraft VC-137B aircraft. President Johnson talks to United States Army General William C Westmoreland and U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam Ellsworth Bunker. He boards the VC-137B aircraft. President waves from the top of the ramp. A red kangaroo painted on side of an aircraft. Ramp being rolled away from the aircraft. Ellsworth Bunker, Vice President of Vietnam Nguyen Cao Ky,William C Westmoreland and others walk on Air Base. William C. Westmoreland shakes hands with Nguyen Cao Ky. Ellsworth Bunker and General William Wallace Momyer in the background. Nguyen Cao Ky boards the United States Air Force aircraft T-39A.
Proper treatment of prisoners of war being shown. Demonstration of Viet Cong being apprehended but treated humanely, during the Vietnam War. Local Vietnamese civilians receiving attention from U.S. and Republic of Vietnam military medical personnel. North Vietnamese propaganda posters illustrating ostensible mistreatment by American and Republic. Newspaper headline reporting murder of captured U.S. soldier by Viet Cong, in Vietnam. Views of various cruel and unusual weapons and traps employed by the Viet Cong. Republic of Vietnam soldiers (ARVN) boarding an American helicopter. Examples of permissable combat while adversary continues to fight : A flight of three B-26 bombers dropping bombs and a single plane dropping napalm. Battery of U.S. M114 155 mm howitzers firing shells. U.S. soldiers firing mortars and machine guns. Glimpse of delegates meeting for Third Geneva Convention at Palace of Nations, in 1949. ARVN troops helping Vietnamese farmers harvest grain..