Construction work at the 3rd Field Military Hospital in Saigon, Vietnam. A hospital building under construction. Three ambulances parked in the premises. Construction in progress. Traffic moving along busy street on the right. Several vehicles in the foreground. Vietnamese workers wearing typical conical hats (“Non la”) and several in hard hats, work within the foundation of the hospital under construction. A worker uses a hand saw to rip a 2 X 4 piece of wood. A Vietnamese worker smooths cement on a masonry wall. '3rd field hospital' written on a building. A U.S. Army sentry with a rifle guards the entrance. (Note: Expansion of the hospital, which included a modern emergency facility and surgery suite, among other things, was managed by U.S. contractor, Pacific Architects and Engineers. Most of the construction workers on the project were Vietnamese.) (Vietnam War period).
Ngo Dinh Diem's Nationalist troops fire during a short battle in Saigon, South Vietnam. Wounded natives. Captured weapons on display. Nationalist Vietnamese soldiers stand and march. Vietnamese Army soldiers and sailors marching in South Vietnam, Indochina.
First day of duty of the United States Air Force personnel in Vietnam A Trans International DC-8 airplane arrives at Saigon Tan Son Nhut Airport Terminal. Marshalling the airplane. Various personnel of the United States Air Force descend from the plane. Air Force personnel put their luggage in a truck. They then move in to a bus. (Vietnam War period).
Black Virgin Mountain signal site near Lai Khe in South Vietnam. Signal site atop the mountain with bunkers, buildings and antennas. A U.S. 1st Infantry Division guard soldier with rifle alert on roof of the sandbagged bunker. Other soldiers keep an eye, alert with their rifles on top of the sandbagged bunkers. (Vietnam War period).
The Fire Support base of the United States Army in Normandy 1, southeast of Lai Khe, South Vietnam. Tents and bunkers covered by the sandbags at the camp. A soldier walks out of a bunker with some strategic documents. 81 mm mortar launcher at the sandbagged emplacement. Soldiers fire 105 mm Howitzer. Soldiers stand around the shells of the Howitzer. 'Bad Breath' written on barrel of the Howitzer. A soldier baths in outdoor underneath a makeshift shower. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. Army 1st Infantry soldiers move inside the jungles in Lai Khe, South Vietnam. Soldiers sit in a group at the jungle. One of them demonstrates the use of wireless radio telephone sets. The other soldiers listen to him carefully. Views of the radio backpack unit. One soldier holds portable radio units and examines them. He holds them near the backpack unit. (Vietnam War period).