Different types of American and Vietnamese aircraft at Tan Son Nhut Air Base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Cathay Pacific Airways Convair 880 aircraft, Air Vietnam DC-6s, DC-3s, and C-46s Commando parked. A U.S. Air Force Martin B-57D Canberra taxis. Two B-57Ds and United States Air Force Douglas F-4C Phantom II wait for takeoff. USAF C-123K Provider and C-130B Hercules taxi past the intersection of a road and a runway. Pan American 707 (cargo version) aircraft taxi and are parked near Cathay Pacific Airways Convair 880 and Air Vietnam DC-6 aircraft. USAF AC-47 Spooky, C-47 Skytain and DC-3 transport aircraft wait for takeoff.
United States Marine Corps trucks moving along road in Vietnam during Vietnam War. Low mountain ranges are seen in the background. A village in Vietnam as seen from a moving vehicle. Coconut trees, houses and Vietnamese civilians are seen on both sides of the road. A railroad track is seen on the right side of the road. A pair of Vietnamese civilians cross the railroad tracks. A steel bridge over a river. View from atop a moving vehicle as the USMC trucks cross a steel bridge. Vietnamese engineers working and a Marine are seen on both sides of the bridge. Trucks on dirt road in rural Vietnam. The truck passes by a pair of blue trucks parked on the left side of the road. A Vietnamese child farmer tending to herd of brown cattle.
American soldiers nail siding boards into place on the exterior of their new mess hall at the Dong Tam Base Camp in South Vietnam, during the Vietnam War. Lots of hammering is heard from other workers (unseen). A wide strip, of what appears to be fine screening or plastic, has been fastened around the structure, above the top siding boards. Camera moves back revealing the wider construction site, with several men at work. One soldier stands near an M149 (400 gallon) Water Buffalo trailer. Other wooden buildings are seen at the camp.
Dredging operations at U.S. "Brown Water Navy" Base Camp, Dong Tam, South Vietnam, during the Vietnam War. Mud and water flowing out the end of a dredge pipe. A man in shorts, wearing a combat helmet, is monitoring the operation in the background. Closeup of that man standing ankle-deep in mud. Closeup of the high-volume output at the end of the dredge pipe. A caterpillar tractor moves mud to form a berm. Closeup of the tractor blade moving mud. More views of the tractor at work. Closeup of a Vietnamese man at the tractor controls. View at some distance from the dredge pipe and berm.
Sign at Headquarters, U.S. Army, 2nd Brigade, 9th Infantry Division, in Dong Tam, Vietnam, during the Vietnam War. View of U.S. and Vietnamese Army vehicles moving about on dry dusty roads at the base. Brief view of the base's Brown Water Navy Riverine waterfront with two armored troop carrier boats, flying American flags, tied up at the dock.
Aerial view from helicopter flying over delta region ot the Mekong River in South Vietnam during the Vietnam war. The Dredge, "New Jersey" is seen operating in the river where it is increasing depth for a harbor turning basin that can accommodate larger ships, and pumping spoils, as land fill, to the shore. The chopper moves inland showing where dredging spoils have been deposited, near quonset huts of the base. Aerial views continue over such areas and then over the main base, itself. showing buildings, motor pool, and other features. (Note: Silent except for some wild sound of helicopter, at times.)
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