United States 1st Cavalry Division soldiers during phase II of Operation Mosby in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Soldiers of United States 1st Cavalry division walk towards United States Army UH-1D helicopter on a field in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Soldiers board the helicopter at Ankhe, Vietnam. African American soldier stands beside the helicopter. Closeup view of a soldier inside the helicopter and then it lifts off. Pilot at controls of an airborne UH-1D helicopter.
President of the United States Lyndon Baines Johnson visits Cam Ranh Bay Air Base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. American General William C. Westmoreland and President Lyndon Baines Johnson mount a trailer platform. William C. Westmoreland at a podium. President Lyndon Baines Johnson speaks and pins Distinguished Service Medals on to officers for their services. William C. Westmoreland, General William Wallace Momyer, U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam Ellsworth Bunker, Deputy Commander of Military Assistance Command in Vietnam Creighton Williams Abrams Jr, Vice President of South Vietnam Nguyen Cao Ky present at the platform. President Lyndon Baines Johnson shakes hands with Nguyen Cao Ky. He talks to Ellsworth Bunker and William C. Westmoreland. President boards a United States Air Force aircraft VC-137B.
President of the United States Lyndon Baines Johnson visits Cam Ranh Bay Air Base in Vietnam during Vietnam War. United States Air Force aircraft VC-137B taxis. President of the United States Lyndon Baines Johnson and U.S. General William Wallace Momyer alighting from VC-137B aircraft. They take places on platform and salute. William C. Westmoreland,General William Wallace Momyer,U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam Ellsworth Bunker,Deputy commander of Military Assistance Command in Vietnam Creighton Williams Abrams Jr,Vice President of Vietnam Nguyen Cao Ky present on platform. Lyndon Baines Johnson and American General William C. Westmoreland return to platform. Officials stand during the playing of national anthem. Lyndon Baines Johnson and American General William C. Westmoreland leave platform. Lyndon Baines Johnson pins medals on several servicemen.
Artistic depiction of United States Marine Corps (USMC) Marines in Vietnam. Soldiers of the 5th Marine Division march in at Camp Pendleton . A medical officer holding a mass inoculation gun. An officer wearing a helmet that reads “EMBARKATION”. The Marines load supplies into the back of a truck. Marines boarding the helicopter carrier USS Iwo Jima (LPH-2) bound for Vietnam. A Marine kisses his wife while holding his daughter before he leaves for Vietnam. Family members wave goodbye to departing Marines. A Marine kiss his daughter’s cheek. A drawing depicts Marines boarding a helicopter to Vietnam. Bell UH-1 Iroquois Huey helicopter shooting at enemy positions in flight. Boeing CH-46 helicopters landing in Vietnamese jungle. Artistic depiction of Marines fighting in the Vietnam War. Marines in fox hole. Marines stand and point their bayonets at wounded North Vietnamese abandoned on the battlefield. Navy corpsman treats wounded Vietnamese soldier. Body of dead Vietnamese soldier and recovered weapons gathered on the field.
Rear view of United States Army Bell UH-1 Iroquois “Huey” helicopters during the Vietnam War. U.S. Army helicopter pilot and soldier crew member in cockpit. South Vietnamese soldiers using a field phone. Republic F-105 Thunderchief fighter bombers in flight. Aerial bombing of Vietcong positions. An officer points to a map. Hand traces marked positions on the map. Vietnamese civilians evacuate from their homes. An injured civilian is taken on a helicopter. A Vietnamese child cries. Vietnamese children wash their hands and dries them with washcloths. A girl combs her hair. A boy lays a tablecloth and glass on the table. A girl holding a bowl of biscuits. A boy is given a biscuit and eats it. “I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle,” says United States President Lyndon B. Johnson during a news conference at the White House on July 28, 1965. Photographs of various young American men of different backgrounds, some with their girlfriends or working. A photograph of American teenagers or young adults. Communist Chinese leader Mao Zedong smiling. A portrait of North Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh over a flag of North Vietnam. View of a ship’s bow. The United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Wasp (CV-18) or USS Lexington (CV-16). A Douglas A-4 Skyhawk fighter jet takes off from aircraft carrier. A pair of bombers dropping bombs over Vietnam. Bombs falling from bomber. Aerial view of bombs exploding in North Vietnam. A USMC LVTP-5 amphibious armored personnel carrier. United States Marines land on beach head and moving in jungle. “This, then, my fellow Americans, is why we are in Vietnam.” President Johnson ends his speech.
Flood relief operations being carried on in Vietnam. Vietnam air Force C-47 aircraft flies low as it approaches the landing strip at Rach Gia airport. Plane lands and taxis along the strip. Other planes parked at the airport. Aerial views of flooded villages in Mekong Delta area in Vietnam. Houses surrounded by water, fields filled with flood waters along river channel. Houses submerged in water, palm trees. Flooded areas. (Vietnam War period).