Scene is Camp Holloway, Pleiku, Vietnam, where a CH-47 chinook Helicopter of the 1st Aviation Brigade is seen flying low with several bundles of supplies suspended underneath it. It is raising huge clouds of red dust from the bare earthen part of the camp, outside that covered by marsden matting aka pierced steel planking (PSP). Four UH-1 Huey helicopters take off raising dust as they start their takeoffs.A Hughes OH-6 Cayuse taking off from the camp's large field of bare red earth. The field's White wind sock is seen in the distance. A 3000 foot marker is planted on the field. Flight crews in helmets standing by their UH-1s with engines running. An OH-6 passes, flying low over the PSP runway. Closeup of main rotor spinning on a helicopter. Closeup of "Papa Gator" and emblem of 119th Assault Helicopter Company, containing picture of an alligator, painted on a helicopter.
A CH-47 Chinook helicopter of the U.S. Army First Aviation Brigade, flies overhead, at Camp Holloway, Pleiku, Vietnam. Blue, sky and white clouds seen above it. Next, it is seen descending vertically over the large bare earth field at the camp, near a white wind sock at the end of a section of the camp paved with pierced steel planking (PSP) aka Marsden matting. The chopper raises huge clouds of red clay dust. Scene shifts to the CH-47 settling down on part of field paved with PSP. A helicopter crewman walks past a parked UH-1 Huey helicopter, as a Lockheed C-130 Hercules transport takes off on the camp runway. Camera follows the departing aircraft. Two CH-47s land near the runway. A Cessna O-2 Skymaster plane takes off on the runway. Three UH-1s with engines running, one airborne, near edge of PSP ramp. A UH-1 with engine running near revetments, as soldiers manually move a Hughes OH-6 Cayuse parked nearby. A CH-47 descending to land. Mountains seen in background.
A long line of UH-1 Helicopters, from the U.S. Army 1st Aviation Brigade, is seen parked beside the runway, with engines running, at Camp Holloway, Pleiku, Vietnam. One is moving slowly a few feet above the runway. Scene shifts to view from open door of an UH-1 Huey helicopter, flying overhead. View of the long runway with some red dust above it. View of misty mountains. View of narrow curving stream cutting through green brush below. Image stops from TC: 00:53 to 01:15, where another aircraft passes at a distance and a river and jungle are seen below. Next, numerous UH-1s are seen on the red earth fields of Camp Holloway, as the camera chopper settles over the camp runway and then air taxis along a ramp paved with PSP (pierced steel plank aka Marsden matting).
Huts on outskirts of Saigon. Children and woman start to run on other side. Man with red cross on bandana runs carrying child. South Vietnamese ARVN troops fire at Vietcong position. Soldier talks into radio. Troops reload machine guns. (Vietnam War period).
Saigon streets with people shopping, praying to ancestors in temples. Saigon in preparation for Tet festival night. City under attack by Vietcong during start of Tet Offensive. Burning buildings. Refugees leave city during siege. ARVN troops in house-to-house combat and street fights. Saigon radio station on fire and fire fighters fighting blaze in radio station. Vietcong prisoner being taken. Dead Vietcong and captured weapons. (Vietnam War period).
Long line of Vietnamese on way to newly discovered mass grave. People dig and uncover bodies which show signs of torture. Locals try to identify bodies of dead. Second mass grave uncovered. People dig out body parts of dead. Body parts stored in bags. Third mass burial uncovered. Local authorities meeting. Assembly point for hundreds of coffins. Incense burning. Mourners at coffins. Coffin is opened and woman looks at the remains. Flowers and incense burns on coffins. Buddhist ceremonies at shrine hall. Coffins prepared for procession. Women grieve. Funeral procession moves which extends for miles. White coolie hats worn by mourners. Mourning and shrine at cemetery. Civilians and military mourners at cemetery. Reburial of bodies (Vietnam War period).