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.
2nd Field Forces, 199th Light Infantry Brigade in Vietnam during Vietcong attack. Vietcong attack on United States positions in South Vietnam. Explosions on field in the far background. Smoke arises from explosions. Building on field. Smoke in wooded area. Helicopter in flight. Barbed wire in the foreground. (Vietnam War period).
North Vietnamese documentary propaganda film. North Vietnamese gun boats firing in a river. North Vietnamese antiaircraft guns firing. Wreckage of downed U.S. Navy airplane. Captured U.S. pilot under guard by armed North Vietnamese sailor. Viet Cong firing machine guns at American aircraft. A transport plane hit by gunfire and burning in flight. Armed American soldiers running from a crashed helicopter. American MPs in a jeep pass a cyclist on city street. President Lyndon Baines Johnson; Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara; Secretary of State, Dean Rusk; U.S. Air Force General Curtis Lemay. Dean Rusk and Robert McNamara meeting with Vietnamese officials.Vietnamese man looking through periscopic binoculars. The North Vietnamese flag. Waterfront with factory on shore and Junks in the water. A manufacturing complex. Harvester in farm. Vietnamese school girls dancing in school yard. Vietnamese gun crew at an antiaircraft gun. Vietnamese Navy gun crew on deck of a gunboat. Vietcong preparing booby traps. Viet Cong escorting South Vietnamese prisoner. Vietnamese paratroops. Headlines of American newspapers saying U.S. officials urge raids against North Vietnam. Map showing U.S. attacks on Vietnam. Map highlights date 30th July 1964 and Tau Chien. U.S. aircraft carriers and task force underway at sea. Map highlights Hanoi and date 1st August 1964. Map highlights 2nd August 1964. Guns on ships fired by gun crew. Battleship underway at sea. Map highlights date 3rd August 1964. Map highlights Gulf of Tonkin and date 4th August 1964. Officials in a meeting. U.S. President Lyndon B Johnson speaks at mike. Men under a plane parked on airfield. U.S. carrier underway at sea. Map highlights date 5th August 1964. Aircraft takes off from carrier to attack North Vietnam. Vietcong fire on U.S. planes overhead. Machine guns fired. Men fire guns from North Vietnamese torpedo boat. Torpedo boats and American destroyers in fight.
Activities of U.S. 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry troops stand in formation. Two of the soldiers hold flags. Mountains and trees in the background. Commanding General of the U.S. Forces in Vietnam, General William C. Westmoreland standing on a truck. He addresses the soldiers gathered around the truck.
Different types of American and Vietnamese aircraft at Tan Son Nhut Air Base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. A U.S. C-7A Caribou aircraft taxi past an intersection of a road and a runway. Air Vietnam Douglas DC-6 aircraft and Boeing 727 parked. Vehicles cross the runway. U.S. Air Force O-2A Skymaster, U-6A Beaver aircraft, U-1A Otter and C-7A Caribou aircraft parked. USAF Douglas DC-3s parked. A Cathay Pacific Airways Convair 880 parked and taxis. C-7A Caribous taxi.