The Battle of Khe Sanh in Khe Sanh, South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Artillery spotters watch a fire through binoculars. Container Delivery System (CDS) bundles are dropped from United States Marine Corps Lockheed C-130 Hercules aircraft. Three Marines run across a field and come through the wire into the perimeter. The Ohio State flag atop a bunker. .50 caliber machine gunner and a spotter in the bunker. An M-29 81mm mortar is fired. A United States Air Force Douglas A-1 Skyraider aircraft drops napalm bombs resulting in explosions on the ground. Men fire mortar. Smoke rises due to the explosions.
The Battle of Khe Sanh in Khe Sanh, South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. A pilot in the cockpit of an aircraft in flight. Men board United States Marine Corps CH-53A Sea Stallion helicopter in a revetment. A soldier connects a fuel hose, then removes the hose after fueling the helicopter. The helicopter takes off. A soldier mans a machine gun in the helicopter. Troops deplane at Khe Sanh.
The Battle of Khe Sanh in Khe Sanh, South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. An M-101 105 mm howitzer is loaded and fired. Marines patch holes in a leaky fuel bladder.
The Battle of Khe Sanh in Khe Sanh, South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Air strikes outside a perimeter. Explosions on the ground. United States Marine Corps aircraft parked in a revetment. Airmen stand near the aircraft. Container Delivery System bundles are dropped from a United States Marine Corps Lockheed C-130 Hercules aircraft through an overcast. An aircraft takes off and initiates evasive action. A United States Marine Corps CH-53A Sea Stallion helicopter being loaded with casualties. A man drives a vehicle. The helicopter lifts and flies off. Another helicopter takes off after being loaded with wounded.
United States 1st Cavalry Division soldiers during phase II of Operation Mosby in Vietnam. Soldiers of 1st Cavalry Division search a thatched roof hut. A soldier puts the roof on fire and leave the village. Hut on fire. Patrol advances along the edge of the jungle. Soldiers reach a Montagnard village. Huts in the village. (Vietnam War period).
Lieutenant Colonel John C. Hughes commander of United States 52nd Aviation Company in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Vietnamese children at a Montagnard village of Plei-Mrong. Young girls with babies tied to their backs. A Vietnamese man in a cloak seated on the ground as he smokes a long pipe. Lieutenant Colonel John C. Hughes gives candies to children. A woman grins as she looks at him. An old Vietnamese man holding gifts.