A truck convoy of U.S. 199th Light Infantry Brigade troops waiting to move out of base camp. Soldiers rush to 105mm Howitzer and prepare to fire. Soldiers load, aim and fire the Howizer. Soldiers read letters and newspapers. (Vietnam War period).
American troops under concentrated enemy artillery fire from North Vietnamese during Vietnam War. U.S. Army soldiers run and jump into a trench, taking cover in the trench as artillery strikes nearby. Dramatic explosions, fire and smoke as American troop position is bombed by Vietcong. U.S. troops firing artillery at the enemy. View from inside cargo compartment of a U.S. Air Force C-130 transport aircraft, as supplies are pushed out for airdrop to U.S. forces. View from ground of supplies descending by paracute from C-133.
U.S. Air Force HH-3E Jolly Green Giant helicopters carrying U.S. 20th Helicopter Squadron personnel and Montagnard troops over a Vietnamese jungle during the Vietnam War. Interiors of an HH-3E in flight shows paratroopers getting ready for a jump. The paratroopers lookout from the doorway of the HH-3E. The paratroopers jump from the HH-3E.
Landing craft loaded with French troops make their way through the Bamboo Canal in Vietnam. Troops disembark from the landing craft on river bank near port of Coi-Co at the junction of Song-Thai-Binh. They cross open fields and canal ( some with supplies on their backs). Local children seen with water buffaloes. A truck is ferried across the canal. Advance is held up as they encounter Viet-Minh resistance at a village. French soldiers dig in. They fire machine guns and mortars. Thatched-roofed house burns as they occupy the village.
Vietnam under French occupation and working for the Indochinese Society of Rubber Plantations. Rural family hut with straw roof and children sitting on the ground outside. Still image of a wood plank road. Vietnamese laborers carrying loading sacks of food onto a boat. Vietnamese families in hills and fording a stream. A woman with baby on her back is pulled up an embankment. The people assemble to camp and view the body of one of their dead comrades. Still image of baby and mother viewing body. View of the jungle with a flowing river. Rubber tree being tapped. A sign reads: SOCIÉTÉ INDOCHINOISE DE PLANTATIONS D’HÉVÉAS
A plaque on building reads: National Viet Minh Convention. Ho Chi Minh poses with early Viet Minh comrades. In meeting hall, the wall behind principal speakers is decorated with pictures of Soviet leaders and large picture of Ho Chi Minh, together with signs containing positive slogans. Separately, Ho Chi Minh meets with his cabinet (of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam) in a well appointed conference area set up on a veranda, with decorative iron railings around it. Large maps are on the wall behind Ho Chi Minh at the head of the conference table.
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