1st Battalion of 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team on Airmobile Tactical Exercise in Vung Tau, South Vietnam, during Vietnam War. Captain Raymond E Marshal and Vietcong officer interrogate a Vietcong prisoner in forest area. Soldier eats food from a can. Troops walk into forest area. Soldier looks into hut with his M-16 rifle.
1st Battalion of 173rd Airborne Brigade during an Airmobile Tactical Exercise in Vung Tau, South Vietnam. Troopers moving cautiously through narrow jungle trail. Next, a suspected Viet Cong (VC) is seen with hands raised as he shows identification to an American trooper, who also frisk searches him. Next, he is seen being interrogated by a Vietnamese officer, while being guarded by a trooper. View of troopers moving along the jungle path and ducking under fallen tree trunks. (Vietnam War period).
Aerial view of Newport Dock area near Saigon, Vietnam. Aerial views of U.S. Army and Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) logistics base located on the Saigon River. View of warehouses and dockyard. Ships anchored at harbor.
Aerial view of United States army port facilities at Saigon River in South Vietnam. Ships harbored at dockyard. Road leads from Saigon to Bien Hoa Air Base. View of an airstrip. Aerial view of Bien Hoa Air Base with clouds in the foreground. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. Army 65-foot Tugboat (ST- 2108) of 1098th Medium Boat company, 159th Transportation Battalion, Quinon, Vietnam, approaches a barge. A crewman at the bow of the tug boat attaches a hawser line from the tug to the barge. Views of the wheel house with Sergeant Markland (Captain and Tugmaster) at the helm. (His sleeves are rolled up hiding his full set of stripes. His rank is at least Staff Sergeant.) Views from the wheel house of the tug navigating the harbor with the barge. Close-up of Sergeant Markland. Views of the tug maneuvering the barge to the destination pier. The barge has "U.S. Army Barge BC-6103" stenciled on its hull. A full view of the Tug heading back out into the harbor. Another tug in the background. (Vietnam War period).
An Army tug boat pulls up to a dock in Vietnam. A crew man on the tug boat throws a mooring line to crew on the dock. The tug boat is moored to the dock. View of the wheel house. The captain at the helm. The tug boat captain turns the helm wheel while docking. (Vietnam War period).