Activities of the United States Special Forces in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Montagnards lined up as Sargent Arthur C. Juniewicz of U.S. Special Forces gives away clothes, sleeping mats and shoes to them in South Vietnam. A Vietnamese man tries the shoes given to him. Men receive clothes and sleeping mats from Sargent Juniewicz. Montagnards lined up including a woman to get the clothes and shoes. Vietnamese men walk away in a line after getting clothes and shoes.
Activities of the Vietnamese Special Forces in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Vietnamese Special Forces Montagnard soldiers of Monuong tribe carry tin sheets and lace them near a bunker in Vietnam. A soldier hammers nails into the tin sheets. Sheets being placed on the bunker as a roof. A soldier cuts the edge of the tin sheet. A soldier hammers a nail into the tin roof of the bunker.
U.S. Army 319th Artillery attached to 101st Airborne Division strengthens defenses of Fire Support Base Ripcord to combat North Vietnam forces in the A Shau Valley, South Vietnam, during the Vietnam War. Opening scene shows Captain David F. Rich, Commander of Battery B, 2nd Battalion, 319th Artillery, conversing with Lieutenant Brennan, in very windy conditions atop the Fire Support Base. The carriage of a 105mm towed howitzer is seen in the foreground, with two shells set on it. View of howitzers and shells stacked atop the Base. The wind whipping aross the Base. African American soldier working on a howitzer. Another fighting the wind, as he carries canisters of propellant charges. He tosses them behind the sandbagged artillery position. Other soldiers join in moving gunpowder canisters. Closeup of two soldiers as the wind blows the hat off one.
U.S. Fire Support Base Ripcord in the A Shau Valley, South Vietnam, under siege by North Vietnam Army forces during the Vietnam War. Several 105mm towed howitzers are positioned atop the base, with barrels at high elevations. Camera focuses on Gunners loading and firing one. The wind is blowing very hard, complicating their activity and causing the cameraman trouble too, as it buffets his camera. The camera views several guns operating in the battery. The Battery then level their guns to fire point blank at their targets. (They also increase their powder charge to 7, the maximum.) the resultant recoil strikes and injures SP/4 Bowing of a gun crew, who falls and is seen lying at the back of his gun. The crew calls for help and carries him to the ground. Cameraman stops filming briefly.. Next, a soldier is seen leaning over SP/4 Bowing, rendering aid.
Operation Junction City in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Vietcong soldiers attend a political or propaganda lecture. The soldiers cross a road. A Vietcong soldier carries an AK-47 submachine gun. An abandoned bus at the side of a road. A dead body beside the bus. Vietcong soldiers in a field. A dead ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam) soldier. United States Air Force C-123B Provider aircraft in flight
Aerial view of two areas in Toy Bien in Nam Phan Province being bombed by U.S. Air Force aircraft during Vietnam War in Vietnam. The fields in Toy Bien in Nam Phan Province in Vietnam. White smoke rises from the fields in two areas due to napalm bomb explosion from American aircraft.
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