Vietnamese troops and a U.S. helicopter crew member assist Montagnard refugee women and children as they unload from a CH-21 helicopter in South Vietnam. An American adviser from MAAG (Military Assistance Advisory Group) Team 28, is seen as well as an American in a sport shirt. Two young Montagnard women with babies touch foreheads in greeting.
Vietnam War demonstrations in front of the United States Embassy in London, England. General view of Pro-American group, carrying American, British, and South Vietnamese flags and plaques. Pro-American Group carries a South Korean flag. Some of the banners read “Southampton University Monday Club” and “Stop Vietcong Terror”. Plaques being carried by the group as they march. Mounted Police and Foot Patrolman standing by along the street. The large mob of Anti-American Demonstrators, peace activists, and anti-war demonstrators with the North Vietnamese flag and a poster of Che Guevara. Crowd being dispersed by the police. Various banners are being carried by the demonstrators. Demonstrators are being pushed by the police. Grosvenor Square showing the square filled with demonstrators milling around. Foot Patrol on the sidewalk. Large mob of demonstrators in the square. The bare tree branches in Grosvenor Square show demonstrators.
U.S. Air Force C-130 airdrop operations in 1968, during Vietnam War. C-130 aircraft in flight. View of supplies being airdropped. View from inside cabin of a C-130, as South Vietnamese paratroopers jump from the aircraft. A heavy pallet of supplies being pulled onto a runway by parachutes, from the rear of a low-flying C-130. Scene shifts to October 14, 1973,at Lod International Airport, Tel Aviv, Israel, where a U.S. Air Force Military Airlift Command C-5 aircraft is unloading 186,200 pounds of military assistance cargo, at the start of the U.S. "Nickel Grass" airlift operation during the Yom Kippur war or Arab-Israeli War of 1973. Pallets of ammunition are seen being offloaded, followed by a 175mm self-propelled gun, covered with wooden cargo boxes. Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir and other observers watch stand on the airport ramp. Golda Meir meets and greets members of the U.S. Air Force crew.
Anti-war demonstrators gather during the 1971 May Day protests in Washington D.C.. Aerial view of Hains Point and protesters camping out in West Potomac Park in April, 1971. A man nails a May Day Protest poster on a tree, probably along Constitution Avenue. The May Day poster reads, "If our people fight one tribe at a time, all will be killed...Come to Washington, D.C. May 1-7." “The country should respond from coast-to-coast, with demonstrations and universities and communities across this country!” says Rennie Davis, an anti-war activist and one of the “Chicago Seven” defendants charged for anti-Vietnam War protests. Still image views of downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin from the Milwaukee River and the domes of the Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory, and streets of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Cars driving on roads near Washington D.C. Women walking across lawn near federal building in Washington, D.C. A tactical manual for “May Day”, with an image of Sitting Bull, the Hunkpapa Lakota leader who resisted against United States government policies, on its cover. A page title of the “May Day Tactical Manual” is written “The Mayday Scenario Saturday, April 24: Algonquin Peace City Opens”. Map of Washington DC showing the main targets of the May Day protests- the Selective Service System agency, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Justice Department and the Health, Education & Welfare Department. Sign reading, “National Headquarters Selective Service System”. Demonstrators from the People’s Coalition for Peace and Justice and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference attempt to break into the Selective Service System headquarters (1724 F Street NW in Washington, DC). Guards prevent protesters from entering the Selective Service System headquarters. Protesters hold burning money and burn draft cards in protest outside the Selective Service System headquarters. Protesters chant "no more war" and raise their hands with clenched fists and peace signs, toss the American flag around, and sing a parody version of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” A security guard snatches the American flag and brings it into the building. Burned draft cards posted on the main entrance of the Selective Service System headquarters. Again the next morning, demonstrators block doors to the Selective Service system headquarters, causing policemen to drag them out of the way by force. Trash from protestors on street. African American civil rights activist Hosea Williams yelling at police, saying, you are "locking up people without telling them anything, and that is wrong! It is wrong!” Protesters outside the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. A May Day collective protester surrounded by policemen. The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare sign. Protesters rip down a wall inside the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Policeman leads away an arrested man from the protest at the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Policemen escort an arrested African American protester Hosea Williams, raising a clenched fist (black power), as he yells to onlookers, "I got it done, I got it done!". Protestors at the Department of Justice yell "free all political prisoners" and hold various signs saying “1984”, “We are all P.O.W” and chanting outside the Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation building in Washington DC. Protestors clap and sing "Amen, amen, amen."
Washington DC Metropolitan Police arrest Vietnam War protestors during the May Day Protests in 1971. Sit-in protesters at The Department of Justice with sign reading, “FREE AMERICA’S POLITICAL PRISONERS”. Police officer with a megaphone speaks to anti-war protesters. Sign above protesters reads, “TRY WAR CRIMINALS NOT WAR RESISTERS”. Policeman arrests a woman raising her fist. Policemen escort and drag protesters to buses. A female protester, holding a child, sits alone in front of the doors of the Department of Justice. Hippie protesters cheer as one of them gets arrested by the police. A hippie man is arrested by the police. Police in front of the United States Department of Justice building (950 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20530) watching protestors. Hippies hold fists in the air while singing during sit-in protest in front of the Department of Justice. Policemen arrest protesters one by one, utilizing field arrest reports on the scene. An African American in dispute with a group of policemen arresting him. Young man with fist raised sitting on top of column during Department of Justice protest while TV cameraman films him. Southern Christian leaders are filmed by TV crews as they join in the protest. Protesters singing and sitting, some wearing symbolic blindfolds. African American policemen observe protestors. Hippies sing, "we shall not be moved." Metropolitan Police Department police arrest protestors. An African American policeman writes a field arrest report. A man with hands on his head during his arrest while photo journalist takes pictures Map of the Washington DC area, with the West Potomac Park labeled. Aerial view of the West Potomac Park near the Potomac River. Map of the North Washington DC area, with Rock Creek Park labeled. 1971 May Day hippie protesters camping in West Potomac Park. Close up of May Day protest manual with words in bold, "Every participant should bring a transistor radio."
Aircraft Carrier, USS Oriskany (CVA-34) in South China Sea off Vietnam. Fire hoses and water spread all over flight deck. Many crewmen attempting to put out fire burning below the deck. Smoke rising from below forward section of flight deck, starboard. Four crewmen carrying a casualty aft on a stretcher. Many sailors around the edge of flight deck. Several aircraft tugs on the deck. Stretcher bearers run forward and return, running with another casualty from the fire stricken area. Crewmen handling hoses run to port, where more smoke is seen. View of airplanes parked as close as possible on a section of deck.
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