Port construction activities in Saigon,Vietnam. Civilians deliver sand from their boat. They carry it in cane baskets and empty them on the shore.
Trucks unload gravel and dirt at port construction site in Saigon ,Vietnam. Catapillar tractors and other heavy equipment work on the site. A sign reads Project Newport being carried on to provide additional port facilities under United States navy engineering command.
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.
United States ambassador to South Vietnam Maxwell D. Taylor and other officials leave Montagnard Technical School. They visit a Vietnamese Catholic Girls School. Ambassador Taylor speaks to a Vietnamese girl and an American nun as photographers take pictures. Luman also speaks to the nun.
United States ambassador to South Vietnam Maxwell D. Taylor presents Commendation Medal to Captain Gerald Geringer, medical advisor, in a ceremony held under a parachute tent at 23rd Infantry Division headquarters. Ambassador Taylor introduced to 23rd Division staff officers. Luman talks to Colonel Brown.
UH-1 Huey helicopters of the U.S. Army First Aviation Brigade, approach and land in trail formation at Camp Holloway, Pleiku, Vietnam. Numerous other helicopters are seen at the airfield. Change of scene shows U.S. army troops of the 101st Airborne Division boarding the helicopters, which then lift off and depart, in a trail formation of a dozen or so, UH-1s. Many of the troops ride, with their legs dangling from the choppers.
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