A U.S. Air Force aircraft drops bombs on target areas during the Vietnam War in Vietnam. White smoke rises over fields due to napalm bursts in Vietnam. A U.S. Air Force A-1E aircraft drops bombs over huts along the sides of the canal in Toy Bien in Nam Phan Province in Vietnam. Smoke rises from the bombed areas. The aircraft in flight.
Activities of U.S. 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Commanding General of the U.S. Forces in Vietnam, General William C Westmoreland, arrives in Vietnam. He pins the Combat Infantry Badge on Lieutenant Walter A. Hess of 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry 101st Division. The General troops the line of the assembled honor guards. He stops to chat with some of the men.
President of the United States Lyndon Baines Johnson visits Cam Ranh Bay Air Base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Troops including all service color guards break formation and run towards platform. President Johnson addresses troops. Presidential seal on door of a United States Air Force aircraft VC-137B aircraft. President Johnson talks to United States Army General William C Westmoreland and U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam Ellsworth Bunker. He boards the VC-137B aircraft. President waves from the top of the ramp. A red kangaroo painted on side of an aircraft. Ramp being rolled away from the aircraft. Ellsworth Bunker, Vice President of Vietnam Nguyen Cao Ky,William C Westmoreland and others walk on Air Base. William C. Westmoreland shakes hands with Nguyen Cao Ky. Ellsworth Bunker and General William Wallace Momyer in the background. Nguyen Cao Ky boards the United States Air Force aircraft T-39A.
Proper treatment of prisoners of war being shown. Demonstration of Viet Cong being apprehended but treated humanely, during the Vietnam War. Local Vietnamese civilians receiving attention from U.S. and Republic of Vietnam military medical personnel. North Vietnamese propaganda posters illustrating ostensible mistreatment by American and Republic. Newspaper headline reporting murder of captured U.S. soldier by Viet Cong, in Vietnam. Views of various cruel and unusual weapons and traps employed by the Viet Cong. Republic of Vietnam soldiers (ARVN) boarding an American helicopter. Examples of permissable combat while adversary continues to fight : A flight of three B-26 bombers dropping bombs and a single plane dropping napalm. Battery of U.S. M114 155 mm howitzers firing shells. U.S. soldiers firing mortars and machine guns. Glimpse of delegates meeting for Third Geneva Convention at Palace of Nations, in 1949. ARVN troops helping Vietnamese farmers harvest grain..
First scene shows a U.S. Army UH-1 helicopter flying over South Vietnam during Vietnam War. Next, American soldier is seen firing at Viet Cong who are running toward a downed helicopter. U.S. soldiers seen climbing out of the helicopter, which is turned on its side. They rush away under fire from the Viet Cong. A ward in a U.S. military hospital in vietnam, where wounded soldiers being treated. Closeups of some of the patients. A flat bed truck carrying American flag-draped coffins of fallen American soldiers drives past a U.S. C-130 aircraft with number 54375 on its tail. A contingent of U.S. servicemen, including sailors in whites and others in Khakis, at parade rest, near a C-130 aircraft. They begin to carry the flag-draped caskets bearing dead American military personnel into the rear loading door of the aircraft. Closeups of Vietnamese people. U.S. soldiers jamming the side railings of a troop ship arriving in Vietnam. One soldier hurries down the gangplank. Then a soldier carrying a unit flag, with numeral one on it, descends the gangplank, followed by two officers. Next, troops are seen assembled with American flag and another one carried by soldiers.
First scene shows U.S. marines descending rope net ladder from side of the USS Pickaway (APA-222) in waters off Da Nang, South Vietnam. Next, marines of 2nd Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment are seen hitting the beach at Danang, from her Higgins boats on 7 July,1965. Scene shifts to U.S. Air Force C-130 aircraft carrying U.S. army troops who are photographed as they step from the aircraft. Trucks carrying some of these soldiers drive along a road in South Vietnam. Officer confer over tactical map of an area. Vietnamese civilian refugees are seen struggling to depart. Small Vietnamese children at a school or other institution, are photographed as they line up and wash themselves before eating a meal. Smallest children are seated in high chairs. President Johnson seen saying "I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle." Pictures of young American men and women are shown in various places and circumstances. A young couple. A man in cowboy hat. A factory worker. A young man laughing. a steel worker on an I beam during construction of a high rise building. Young people assembled at some sort of occasion. Images of Chinese Chairman, Mao Zedong, and Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh. Bow of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier cutting the water, and then broad view of entire ship, the USS Randolph (CV-15). (Note: the Randolph played no role in the Vietnam War.) Aircraft being catapulted from a carrier. USAF B-52 bombers dropping bombs in Arc Light missions over Vietnam. Bombs exploding on the ground. U.S. Marines operating a type of landing craft tracked. Troops deploying from a landing craft at a beach. American troops making their way through jungles. Scene reverts back to President Johnson still speaking (July 28, 1965).
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