French general De Lattre De Tassigny and Emperor of Vietnam Bao Dai inspect Vietnamese troops and tank units in Nhatrang Vietnam.Troops line up and salute. Vietnamese tank crew at attention. A yacht anchored offshore can be seen. The General, Emperor and other officials raise a toast on the yacht.
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.
A revolt against Vietnamese President in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. People and soldiers of 7th Vietnamese Army gather on the streets .They revolt against South Vietnam's President Ngo Dinh Diem. Vehicles drive past on the streets. Soldiers aboard tanks moving on the streets. Smoke from bombardment and firing in the area. Exterior of a building destroyed by the firing. People celebrate on the successful ending of the revolt. They hold boards and placards in hands.
Vietnamese government faces Vietnam war on two fronts from Buddhist majority and Viet Cong communists. The war is joined by a large number of students who take to the streets. The capital Saigon tuned into an armed camp. Barricades on roads as the army keeps a vigil among the public. A military tank in the city. A mass meeting called by President Diem's regime on the roads of Saigon. Numerous students and supporters gathered in the streets. Banners and posters in support of President Diem. The President makes a rare and brief appearance at the meeting. He inspects the Honor Guard. Madam Nhu and her husband, head of the secret police seen standing with children. Madam Nhu gives marathon interviews stating her views against the United States and President John F Kennedy. Ton That Dinh, Military Governer of Saigon at a press conference blaming foreign interventionists for the riots in Vietnam. Henry Cabot Lodge takes over as U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam. Ambassador gives a statement to the media. He demands the ousting of President Diem's brother Nhu in order to continue American aid to Vietnam. U.S. soldiers known as advisors stand beside a U.S. Army helicopter as they plan their strategy. U.S. Army helicopters in a marshy swamp. Soldiers board the helicopters as they take off. The helicopters with U.S. and South Vietnam troops approach the Ca Mau Peninsula. A view of the village taken over by the Viet Cong Red Guerilla Band. Damaged houses near the water body. A helicopter down in a rice paddy. U.S. soldiers run to the safety of other helicopters as Communist Vietcong snipers begin shooting. U.S. soldiers take cover behind the crashed helicopter. An American soldier running to safety in the water. A village set on fire by North Vietnamese Communists in the Mekong Delta. View of wiped out villages.
Aerial view of many helicopters parked on rain soaked ground at an air base in South Vietnam. American army officers (military advisers to South Vietnam) hold conversations while standing near a UH-1 Huey helicopter. Next, a group of ARVN (Army of Republic of Vietnam) troops boarding a U.S. Piasecki-H21 helicopter and a Sikorsky H-34. Armed ARVN troops are seated inside, on the floor of a helicopter. Aerial view from above, of UH-1 choppers flying low across the terrain near a coastline. View from helicopter flyiing low along a river. Closeup of a Piasecki-H21 flying past the camera. South Vietnamese soldier looking out the window of a chopper. ARVN exit a hovering helicopter into shallow water and slog towards their objective. View of jungle from helicopter in flight. U.S. officers confer as a wounded American adviser is carried, on a stretcher, from the jungle to a waiting UH-1 helicopter, for evacuation. He is placed in the medivac chopper next to a wounded ARVN soldier. Closeup of Two South Vietnamese navy officers standing on a boat. One points to a South Vietnamese river gunboat firing at the opposite shore. Gun are seen firing from another gunboat. ARVN troops charge the shore in an amphibious training exercise. They enter sandy areas and employ shrubbery as camouflage. View over shoulder of one firing his rifle. Views of ARVN troops firing weapons as they advance in jungles and firing a mortar. Closeup of a wounded South Vietnamese soldiers being tendedon a stretchers . Vietnamese women and girls dressed in ao dai waiting anxiously. A soldier burning incense and praying for a fallen comrade.
Viet Cong attack on a village in South Vietnam. One killed and 22 injured in a grenade attack on a South Vietnamese village. American soldiers carry the wounded locals to a military ambulance after the attack. The injured being loaded onto an ambulance. (Vietnam War period).