ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam) military training centers and schools in Vietnam. South Vietnamese cadets train at a training center. A hootch in a simulated Vietcong village. A sign on the hootch reads 'Ntram Thong Tin'. Several pictures and papers put up at various spots in the hootch. ARVN cadets enter and inspect the hootch. One cadet is shot and wounded. The other cadets help move the wounded cadet away from the hootch. (Vietnam War period).
United States and South Vietnamese soldiers defend Kontum during the Nguyen Hue Campaign of the Vietnam War. The Kontum airfield seen through concertina wire. United States Air Force C-123 Provider transport aircraft parked on the airfield. A C-123 taxis and takes off. The runway at the airfield. Hills in the background. Aerial view of the surrounding area. A C-123 taxis and takes off. The aircraft in flight. A C-123 lands at the airfield. Soldiers on a road.
South Vietnamese (ARVN) soldiers assembled in the streets of Saigon during the Vietnam War. Soldiers walk along the road side. Encamped at Phu Tho racetrack in Saigon, U.S. army 199th Light Infantry soldiers align 81mm mortar. Soldiers at aiming circle measure elevation angles. Soldiers observe the alignment of the gun. Others read a document. Army trucks parked in the field.
Opening slate reads: "Operation Rio Grande" and shows partial date of "11-2....." (The complete date is November 20-27, 1967, when this Search and Destroy mission was launched by the U.S. Marines 5th and 7th Brigades with South Vietnamese forces support during the Vietnam War.) A U.S. Marine jet aircraft dives low and drops a bomb on a Viet Cong position. View from overflying CH-46A helicopter of others maneuvering low over rice paddies, where smoke rises from some small fires, possibly from helicopter M60 machine gun fire. Helicopters parked with rotors turning on a large open field. Helicopters maneuvering low above the ground, and then climbing and departing the area.
Fall of Saigon and evacuation of Americans and South Vietnamese escaping Vietnam at end of Vietnam War. US Navy crew members seen pushing UH-1D/H Huey helicopters and a CH-47 helicopter over the side of the ship, to make room on the deck for a Cessna O-1 (unseen), with evacuees, seeking to land.
An aircraft flies over fields,a few houses and trees as it approaches towards a dirt airstrip at Long Thanh in Dong Nai province in south east Vietnam. The aircraft lands at the dirt airstrip using and moves over it as a military truck remains parked towards the right of the runway.
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