Covers activities of 18th Special Operations Squadron at Phan Rang AF,Vietnam. Night fire from AC-119K aircraft.Tracers and parachute flares at night can be seen. January 1970.
Covers activities of 18th Special Operations Sqaudron at Phan Rang AF,Vietnam. AC-119K showing airmen loading and checking mini guns. January 1970.
American comedian Bob Hope performs for United Service Organization (USO) in Bien Hua in Vietnam. Bob Hope and his troupe of entertainers perform in a USO Show. Banners read 'USO Shows'. Song and dance performances by Kaye Stevens, Anita Bryant, John Bubbles, Jerry Colonna and Carroll Baker. Harold and Fayard Nicholas perform as a team. The troops watch the show and applaud. Bob Hope talks to Carroll Baker. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. troops of the 506th Infantry, 101st Airborne Division in Cambodia, during the Vietnam War. Several soldiers are seen in wooded area. One talks over a PR-25 radio from a tree line at the edge of large open field. Another soldier slings an M-60 machine gun over his shoulder. Then, carrying their gear, the soldiers walk across the open field toward an area where a camp is being set up. In the distance, a UH-1 Huey helicopter sits with engine running and rotor blades turnng. The soldiers enter the tree line where others are assembling with their gear and supplies, next to the open field. The soldier carrying the M-60 machine gun, waves to the camera. Closeup of some soldiers who have pitched a couple of tents and are opening boxes of supplies. A change of scene shows several troops escorting a captured North Vietnamese army (NVA) soldier, whose hands are tied behind him, to a UH-1 helicopter with engine running. The Huey is next seen taking off with the prisoner aboard. Closeup of black NVA cap, left behind,in the mud. (Note: Within a few days, these troops distinguished themselves in combat with North Vietnamese Army troops. One, in particular, Leslie H. Sabo, Jr. Specialist Fourth Class, of Company B, 3d Battalion, heroically sacrificed his life, in combat on May 10, 1970, and was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.)
Opening slate identifies location as Cambodia, FSB Bronco, June 20, 1970. U.S. army gun crew of 1st Battalion, 30th Field Artillery Regiment are seen stripped to the waist, standing by their 155mm howitzer, listening to an officer at Fire Base Bronco, during the Cambodian incursion of the Vietnam War. After the officer leaves, they begin loading and firing their gun. Some hold their ears as the gun fires. Scene shifts to ammunition dump where gunners pick up more shells and bring them to the gun site. The crew begins firing again. Their officer is present and communicates by wireless phone. View of the fire support base, itself. Closeup of gunner making aiming adjustments.
TV picture of target area on forward looking infra-red screen of AC-119K aircraft can be seen. January 1970.