A visit by South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu, Vietnamese Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky and others to Pleiku Air Base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. RVN (Republic of Vietnam) soldiers stand in formation at Pleiku Air Base. The soldiers hold flags. A sign on a building frame reads 'Welcome to Pleiku Air Base'. South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu deplanes followed by Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky. President Thieu shakes hands with RVN officers and reviews RVN troops. President Thieu and Vice President Ky come out of a building. President Thieu talks to a Vietnamese officer.
United States Lieutenant General William R. Peers and men from the Peers Inquiry Group arrive in My Lai 4 village in South Vietnam. They interview witnesses and make an on-site inspection of the village. The Inquiry Group investigates about the alleged My Lai massacre incident of March 1968. Mr. Robert MacCrate and Mr. Jerome K. Walsh also arrive in the village. A helicopter lands in the village. The Inquiry Group members visit the burnt houses. Damaged buildings in view. Rubble on the ground. Wrecked material scattered on the ground.
The crew men work on flight deck with fire hoses all over the deck area of USS Oriskany (CVA-34) aircraft carrier in South China Sea, off South Vietnam. Several men holding fire hoses and spread water all over the deck above a fire burning below. smoke is seen seeping through the deck. A helicopter flies over the deck area. Men running through smoke to rescue crewmen. Four men carry an injured on a stretcher. Smoke spreads all over the ship.
USS Providence (CLG-6) underway in the South China Sea off South Vietnam. A plotting room aboard USS Providence with various stations manned. A crewman works over a map in the plotting room. He uses various instruments to draw grids on charts. A man writes information on a clipboard and an officer uses sound-powered phones. A man operates Mark 8 Able computer in the plotting room. The man turns a small handle at the side of the computer during adjustment. The computer shows two dials in motion. A plotting officer with a salvo computer in right background. A salvo operator wearing phones looks toward left to the plotting room officer. A man's both hands on the triggers for firing of the guns. The salvo operator talks over a phone. A starboard beam view of the USS Providence at a sea off the coast of South Vietnam. An officer and two crewmen work over an MK I Able computer on CIC aboard the USS Providence.
Burning Aircraft Carrier, USS Oriskany (CVA-34) off South Vietnam. Fire resulted from accidental ignition of flares. Three officers in the cabin, one of them sitting on the table top, while other two are on chairs and are engaged in an informal conversation (on same reel of footage, taken before the fire). View as sailors rip material from ship's side to gain access to fire. Smoke billows from side of ship. Several sailors run from area of heavy smoke, to get breath of fresher air. Injured sailor carried on stretcher.
MACV (US Military Assistance Command, Vietnam) Advisory Team assists South Vietnamese soldiers in the evacuation of refugees from Kontum during the Nguyen Hue Campaign of the Vietnam War. Local Vietnamese in coolie hats near bicycles on a road. Soldiers on a tank as it moves along on a road. Billowing smoke on ridge from USAF Boeing B-52 Stratofortress air strikes. South Vietnamese soldiers, U.S. M-60 tanks and a U.S. Army Bell UH-1D Iroquois helicopter nearby. South Vietnamese positions around a helipad. Aerial view of the area. Smoke on ridge. Bomb craters and terrain damage in jungle foliage on the ridge. Officers observing bomb damage through open door of the helicopter. An American officer speaking into the radio headset. The pilot at controls in the cockpit.
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