A long line of UH-1 Helicopters, from the U.S. Army 1st Aviation Brigade, is seen parked beside the runway, with engines running, at Camp Holloway, Pleiku, Vietnam. One is moving slowly a few feet above the runway. Scene shifts to view from open door of an UH-1 Huey helicopter, flying overhead. View of the long runway with some red dust above it. View of misty mountains. View of narrow curving stream cutting through green brush below. Image stops from TC: 00:53 to 01:15, where another aircraft passes at a distance and a river and jungle are seen below. Next, numerous UH-1s are seen on the red earth fields of Camp Holloway, as the camera chopper settles over the camp runway and then air taxis along a ramp paved with PSP (pierced steel plank aka Marsden matting).
The U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division returns to A Shau Valley in Vietnam during the Battle of Fire Support Base Ripcord during Vietnam War. A U.S. Army UH-1B Iroquois helicopter comes in and lands on a mountaintop at Fire Support Base Ripcord. American troops unload supplies from the UH-1B Iroquois helicopter and the helicopter takes off. The soldiers carry equipment and supply to Fire Support Base. The supplies on the ground. The troops move at the Fire Support Base. A troop carries a hose of an equipment. Troops carrying equipment. The helicopter brings troops to landing zone fury.
At start of film, a U.S. Army officer is seen talking with some soldiers preparing to depart Tay Ninh airfield for Nui-Ba-Den mountain, Vietnam. Next, the troops head across the field to helicopters of the 187th Assault Helicopter Co. (the Crusaders), waiting on marsden matting pavement at the field. A line of helicopters with troops aboard and engines running. They take off sequentially in trail formation. (Vietnam War period).
147th Aviation Company at Vung Tau airfield in Vietnam. U.S. 221st signal corporation soldiers at field. Aerial view of the air field. Mortars, CH-47 Chinook helicopters, 105mm Howitzers parked in the airfield. Buildings at base camp. Aircraft parked at airbase. People stand past transporter airplanes. View of airbase. Water besides base. Planes at the base. (Vietnam War period).
147th Aviation Company at Vung Tau airfield in Vietnam. Soldiers of 221st signal corporation. CH-47 Chinook helicopter fly low in field. It picks up a 105 mm Howitzer and flies off. Truck in the field. Vietnamese soldiers load supplies into Chinook. Looking down at Howitzer in sling from helicopter in flight. Vietnamese soldiers seated in Chinook. (Vietnam War period).
147th Aviation Company at Vung Tau airfield in Vietnam. Soldiers of 221st signal corporation. Silhouette of CH-47 Chinook helicopter in flight. A machine gunner sits and puts a bullet belt. Chinook in flight and lands. A soldier reads from a paper in helicopter. A soldier in field holds rotor blade of helicopter. A man stands besides the helicopter and looks at it. (Vietnam War period).