U.S. 2nd Battalion, 14th Infantry, 1st Brigade carries out Operation Wahiawa in Cu Chi district, Saigon, Vietnam. MEDEVAC (Medical evacuation) Huey UH-1 helicopters land in a jungle. Wounded soldiers are carried on litters aboard the helicopters. The helicopter takes off. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. 2nd Battalion, 14th Infantry, 1st Brigade carries out Operation Wahiawa in Cu Chi district, Saigon, Vietnam. Wounded soldiers are carried on litters aboard a MEDEVAC (Medical evacuation) Bell UH-1B Iroquois Huey helicopter. The helicopter takes off. An officer talks over a field telephone. (Vietnam War period).
Bien Hoa Air Base in Saigon. OH-6A helicopters seen through barbed wire. Soldiers on tank. Army vehicles pass on bridge. Smoke rises in the background. Dead Vietcong on bridge. Vietnamese look through rubble. Smoking rubble in area. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense David Packard on a tour of Vietnam. The official party arrives at the Naval Support Activity, Saigon. Binh Thuy Air Base administration building in the background. David Packard gets out of a car. He walks towards a U.S. Army UH-1H helicopter for flight to Cantho, Republic of Vietnam. The helicopter warms up. U.S. Vice Admiral Elmo Russell Zumwalt, Comnavforces, Vietnam gives a thumps up. An army officer boards the helicopter. It is ready for lift off. The plane director gives a signal for the lift off. The helicopter lifts off. Dignitaries stand in rain next to the helicopter at Cantho. Commodore Tran Van Chon, Chief of Naval Operations;Vietnamese Navy , in a rain coat. Mr Packard walks through the rain. Commodore Chon greets him. Mr Packard enters a car. He walks away from the car and moves into a building. Mr Packard and the party enters a small building. He gets into carry all. He leaves the doorway of the small building. He walks through mud and a sailor holds an umbrella over his head. He enters a small building and chats with unidentified naval officers. Mr Packard shakes hands with Vietnamese and other officers and prepares to leave from Ben Luc. (Vietnam War period).
The Vietnam Crises (preceding Vietnam War). Tanks manned by troops of the Special Forces outside Hùng King Temple in Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City), Vietnam. These Vietnamese troops, under the command of President Diem's brother have been mounting a campaign of terror against the Buddhists. Troops on military trucks passing. View of Buddhist Monks and photographers taking photos. College students are arrested.
United States Vice President Richard Nixon visits a military training camp in Saigon, Vietnam. Vietnamese soldiers stand in as honor guards to welcome Vice President Nixon. Vice President Nixon watches South Vietnamese soldiers as they jump over wooden obstacles during a training session. Vice President Nixon speaks with South Vietnamese officials. South Vietnamese soldiers practice firing as the Vice President with other officers looks on. South Vietnamese soldiers in prone position while firing. Vietnamese soldier conveys a message over a wireless field telephone as Richard Nixon and other officials stand next to him.
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