Aftermath of Vietcong attack on Camp Holloway assigned to 52nd Aviation Battalion, Army Support Command in Vietnam. Major General Nguyen Khanh, Commander, U.S. Military Assistance, Vietnam General William C Westmoreland and McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to President for National Security on an inspection tour. Others follow. Blown tire on plane landing gear. A hole in steel mat. General Khanh talks to Mr Bundy. General Westmoreland talks to General Khanh and Major General Delk M Oden. Rubbish strewn about. Ragged holes in blown roof of American quarters. (Vietnam War period).
United States Army 1st Infantry Division nicknamed 'Big Red One' arrives at the beach. American color guard on a beach in Vietnam. General William C Westmoreland, Commander General, U.S. Army, Vietnam, on the beach landing area. Major General Jonathan O Seaman, Commander General 1st Infantry Division, on beach. He converses with Brigadier General John "Jack" Norton, Commander of the 1st Air Cavalry Division and Colonel Curt Aronson of his Division. .A Landing Craft Utility (LCU) arrives carrying the first contingent of the 1st Infantry Division. As the troops disembark, General Westmoreland shakes hands with first two soldiers. The soldiers carry barrack bags. Remainder of the film shows troops offloading from the LCU and making their way across the sand past the Generals and the color guard.(Vietnam War period).
Aftermath of the Tet Offensive bombing on United States Embassy (4 Le Duan Blvd., District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) in Saigon, Vietnam. Blasted roofs of wrecked buildings across the street of the United States Embassy. Extreme damage inside the building. Smashed building and broken windows. Rubble strewn about in the building. Blood on glass top of desk. Rubble in offices and wrecked furniture. Vietnam map hanging askew.
Commander of U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV) William C. Westmoreland arrives at Phan Rang Air Base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. William C. Westmoreland arrives in a Beechcraft U-8F aircraft. He disembarks from the aircraft. He is greeted by Phan Rang Air Base Commander Colonel Lewis R Riley, 35th Tactical Fighter Wing (TFW) Commander Colonel James A. Wilson, Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) No. 2 Squadron Commander and members of 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division. William C. Westmoreland leaves the base in a staff car.
President of the United States Lyndon Baines Johnson visits hospital yard at Cam Ranh Bay Air Base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. President Johnson and Vice president of Vietnam Nguyen Cao Ky arrive at the 12th United States Air Force hospital in a car. President being greeted by officials. They pin purple hearts on a casualty.
Opening scene shows American soldiers exiting a helicopter and wading through water during the Vietnam War. Next, Ho Chi Minh, North Vietnam's leader, poses with Mao Tse-tung (or Zedong), the leader of the Communist People's Repbulic of China. Ho Chi Minh on a reviewing stand with unidentified high ranking communist military officer. Shadows of Viet Cong running to attack a village. A straw-roofed building being torched. Village people fleeing. Anti-communist volunteers training. Republic of Vietnam soldiers (ARVN) in camouflage arrive in a truck convoy and begin offensive against Viet Cong (VC). A shell explodes nearby. ARVN taking up defensive positions firing recoiless rifle and Browning M1917 machine gun. American and ARVN soldier with a VC prisoner, whose head has been bandaged. ARVN being trained in use of a mortar.
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