The base camp of 90th Replacement Battalion of United States Army in Vietnam. Banner written with 90th Replacement Battalion. Check post at entry and the watch tower near it. Soldiers with rifles move inside a bunker and keep a watch. Another soldier with rifle scales a ladder to the watch tower. Base camp and nearby area as seen from the watch tower. Quonset huts at the base and other buildings at the camp. Soldiers walk inside a Quonset hut written with 'Record Processing Branch'. (Vietnam War period).
The base camp of 90th Replacement Battalion of United States Army in Vietnam. Banner written with 'Jet Set Service Club' on a building. Soldiers sit leisurely outside it, some rest against their bags on ground. Buses parked near barracks. Barrack bags lie roughly on ground. Sign board 'Going Home? Report Here, USA Bound'. Soldiers unload luggage, a suitcase and a tunic from a U.S. Army truck. (Vietnam War period).
The base camp of 90th Replacement Battalion of United States Army in Vietnam. Soldiers board buses one after the other. An officer checks the record book standing near the bus. Another group of soldiers walk out of a building and board buses. Flags at barracks. Soldiers move inside the PX (Post Exchange) to shop, while other soldiers leave the PX. Benches near buildings. Soldiers sit on their bags on sidewalks and talk to each other. (Vietnam War period).
View from UH-1 helicopter flying over Camp Holloway in Vietnam highlands, during period U.S. troops are commencing their incursion into Cambodia, during the Vietnam War. Rough dirt paths and landing areas have been carved out of the earth and scrub brush landscape. Half a dozen UH-1s are parked on the site, as well as trucks and other vehicles. A huge section of the site is barren, except for a white wind sock. View from the ground of a UH-1 coming in to land. It sets down on a ramp of marsden matting, aka pierced steel planking (PSP), as a CH-47 chopper takes off in the background. Camera is photographing from another UH-1 that takes off, still focusing on the one that just arrived. A C-130 aircraft is on the runway in the background. The departing camera-helicopter shows troops and equipment on the bare earth below. Scene shifts to aerial views of sky, clouds, and mountainous terrain. Shifting to view of ground, another advance base is seen below. Another UH-1 is seen in the sky.The camera-helicopter passes over a dirt field where a low flying formation of helicopters is raising huge dust clouds. In the midst of this site there is a long hard surface (PSP) runway, that the camera-helicopter flies along, at altitude.Troops and equipment plus more helicopters are in the dirt areas beside the hard runway.
Construction and use of bunkers on Fire Support Bases (FSB) by U.S. Army soldiers in Vietnam. U.S. soldiers construct duel blade bunkers at FBS Charlie One at Camp Carroll. Logs fixed vertically into the ground. Soldiers use chain saw to cut log piles used to support the bunker wall. A rope tied to a log. Soldiers fell logs by pulling the ropes. Construction machinery and equipment around. A bucket loader drives to the top of a bunker and dumps load of fill. (Vietnam War period).
Construction and use of bunkers on Fire Support Bases (FSB) by U.S. Army soldiers in Vietnam. Entrances to a dual blade bunker on FBS Charlie One at Camp Carroll. Soldiers walk past. Bunkers under construction. Construction material and equipment. (Vietnam War period).