Operation Piranha at White Beach in Cap Batangan, Vietnam. United States Marine personnel moving down combination ladder of the USS Bayfield (APA-33) with their packs and rifles. Marines board a waiting LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel) alongside. LCVP in water. (Vietnam War period).
Civilians search through rubble of their destroyed homes. Civilians walk past wrecked buildings. ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam) soldiers pass by in jeep. Civilians in rubble walk past wrecked buildings. ARVN soldiers in ditch alongside road. Soldier walk on wooded road. ARVN bring in Vietcong prisoner. ARVN soldiers run for cover as they come under sniper fire. Soldiers in ditch alongside road. Civilians take cover. (Vietnam War period).
Buildings destroyed by Vietcong attack shows barracks and other buildings wrecked by mortar attacks at Bien Hoa Air Force Base, Vietnam. Signboard "Air Tactical Group" outside wrecked buildings. Wrecked and isolated building. Helicopters in sky. (Vietnam War period).
A feature film about PBR (Patrol Boat River) at Binh Thuy Air Base, Mekong Delta, Republic of Vietnam. A camera boat approaches. American flags on the camera boats. A small sampan pass by. The stern of a PBR to a sampan along the port quarter. Vietnamese on the stern of the sampan. An interpreter talks to the Vietnamese. A PBR crewman talks to an elder woman on the sampan. South Vietnamese flags seen on the sampans. A crewman checks paperwork and he steps aboard the sampan. The Vietnamese on the stern is apparently a detainee. An injured Vietnamese being helped and bandaged on the deck of the PBR. A Vietnamese carries a wounded woman from the boat. The woman lying on the pier. Vietnamese carry off the injured woman on a stretcher. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. Army Special Forces operating near Ba Me Ga west of Ban Me Thout, Vietnam. A Special Forces Mobile Strike Force (Mike Force) soldier slits open a Vietcong rice bag. The team encounters a dying Vietcong soldier in brush. Mike Force member searches the VC's body for documents. Information about Vietcong anti-tank mines and tax collection documents are reportedly found on the VC. ( Note: It has also been reported that some elements of the Mike Force unit drove over an uncharted anti tank mine on the way back to base, after the mission, killing and wounding members of Special Forces, Australian Army Training Team Vietnam, and Montagnard strike force troopers.)
American civilians and soldiers arrive in San Francisco, California from Vietnam. Early in the Vietnam War, the first group of Americans wounded in guerrilla raids in Vietnam arrive back in San Francisco. Airplane lands on an airport. People gather at the airport to greet them. Wounded in beds on board the plane. Wounded soldiers and civilians disembark from the airplane and meet others. Civilians arrive with garlands around their necks. Cameramen record the event.