A film titled 'Saigon Target Zero' on the 1968 Tet Offensive on Saigon, Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Information about the role of Army of the Republic of Vietnam ( ARVN ) psychological warfare teams in defeating Viet Cong forces. Street scenes in Saigon in preparation for Tet. People on the streets. Buildings in an area. Tet is considered as sacred time of the year. People in a market. They pray in a church. Vietcong troops attack Saigon. Smoke rises from bombardment and firing. Burning buildings in the city. Heavy columns of smoke rise up from the burning buildings. People flee from the city. The U.S. Army and the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) in action. Soldiers aboard military vehicles moving on a street. Soldiers with rifles walk along the streets and fire. The soldiers fire rifles. Smoke rises from the firing. Damaged buildings along street sides. Prisoners being taken by the troops.
New troops in Vietnam are shown how to hold weapons. Instructors teaches various positions to fire and ways to hold weapons.
Views, from a low flying helicopter, of Camp JJ Carroll in Vietnam. Dual blade bunkers and gun positions at the Base. Dirt roads traverse the camp area. Tanks, or self-propelled guns are parked in some areas. Fresh excavations are seen around Fire Support Base Charlie One showing underground wooden bunkers and bunkers under construction. Trucks are moving cargoes. Dust is being raised in background from vehicular traffic on a road leading in and out of the Camp. Change in color and beginning of slightly closer look at the Camp. A main gate with vehicle barriers and a guard shack.
A squad of Republic of Vietnam soldiers (ARVN) wearing steel helmets, stand over a wounded Viet Cong prisoner, wearing a red scarf. He is seated on the ground next to the covered dead body of a comrade, lying on a litter. Army trucks and a parked helicopter are in the far background. An ARVN soldier, in soft cap, opens a packet of medicine and gives some to the prisoner. Scene shifts to headquarters tent, where ARVN officers and NCOs sit by a bank of telephones. Those manning the phones are quite occupied, receiving reports and making notes. Information is seen being posted on a battlefield map. (Note: Only faint wild sound is heard in this clip.)
Security police QRT (Quick Reaction Team) members board V-100 vehicle at Pleiku Air Base, Vietnam. Another airman at his post. V-100 vehicle driven past perimeter guard tower. Tracers fired at night.
366th Fighter Wing crew members at Da Nang Air Base, Vietnam. Air crews of 366th Tactical Fighter Wing scramble to their F4E aircraft, sheltered in revetments covered with individual semicircular reinforced roofs.(Sound heard in first part of the clip is radio chatter unrelated to the images.) Crew chiefs help the pilots and backseaters (weapon systems officers) to strap in. Pilot seen and heard receiving, acknowledging, and dialing in the local altimeter setting. Closeup of sharks mouth painted on aircraft. Red rotating light on vehicle roof (unseen). Closeup of assorted airborne weapons slung under an F-4E. Crew chiefs remove safety pins and covers from weapons of both aircraft. Crew chief secures nose panel on aircraft.
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