U.S. Navy 7th fleet activities in South China Sea during the Vietnam War. Menu board aboard USS Coral Sea. A cook cuts meat in the kitchen. Cook places sliced pork on a tray for steam table. United States sailors pick up plates as they move through the mess line. Sailors serve themselves. A sailor helps himself to three slices of bread and then moves down to serve a dessert. A cook hands out a slice of fresh pork to a sailor. Cook hands out meat in a mess line. Cook in a hat as he talks to a man.
U.S. Navy 7th fleet activities in South China Sea during the Vietnam War. Flight deck of USS Coral Sea as a U.S. Navy A-1H aircraft makes arrested landing on the deck. It touches down and catches fire. Aircraft taxis forward and folds its wings. U.S. Navy A-3B being catapulted from the deck. A-3 being launched and airborne. Aircraft on after part of flight deck as one of the aircraft unfolds its wings. A-3B aircraft takes off. Blast fence being lowered in the background as steam rolls down the deck. A-3B aircraft takes off and in flight. U.S. Navy E-1B aircraft takes off from aboard USS Coral Sea. RF-8A parked on the deck of the aircraft. Tow bar attached to the aircraft as sun sets in the background.
U.S. Navy 7th fleet activities in South China Sea during the Vietnam War. Two men push a large rack of trays in mess area aboard USS Coral Sea. Sailors move through the mess line. Men move along a salad bar as they help themselves to various salads and desert. Cooks hand out meat to sailors as they move through the chow line. Pork chops being taken off grill by a cook and being placed in a pan for steam table. Cook places fresh pork chops on the grill. Pork chops being cooked on the grill.
A dozen South Vietnamese farmers walk side-by-side in a large rice paddy, spraying their crop. Outline map of Vietnam and environs is superimposed on the moving scene. Two farmers threshing crop by hand. Two farmers pounding rice with a foot operated wooden device. A steam shovel lifting mineral-bearing earth. Vietnamese workers using hand tools to loosen ore and push it down the side of a hill, where another is seen pushing a small rail car loaded with ore. A worker cutting a rubber tree on a plantation, to collect its natural latex. Latex being processed in a factory. Workers in a spinning facility and others weaving large rolls of cloth by machine.
First scene shows a U.S. Army UH-1 helicopter flying over South Vietnam during Vietnam War. Next, American soldier is seen firing at Viet Cong who are running toward a downed helicopter. U.S. soldiers seen climbing out of the helicopter, which is turned on its side. They rush away under fire from the Viet Cong. A ward in a U.S. military hospital in vietnam, where wounded soldiers being treated. Closeups of some of the patients. A flat bed truck carrying American flag-draped coffins of fallen American soldiers drives past a U.S. C-130 aircraft with number 54375 on its tail. A contingent of U.S. servicemen, including sailors in whites and others in Khakis, at parade rest, near a C-130 aircraft. They begin to carry the flag-draped caskets bearing dead American military personnel into the rear loading door of the aircraft. Closeups of Vietnamese people. U.S. soldiers jamming the side railings of a troop ship arriving in Vietnam. One soldier hurries down the gangplank. Then a soldier carrying a unit flag, with numeral one on it, descends the gangplank, followed by two officers. Next, troops are seen assembled with American flag and another one carried by soldiers.
South Vietnamese Regional forces or Popular forces being trained during the Vietnam War. Men of South Vietnamese Regional forces or Popular forces practice hand to hand combat as they throw th opponent over the shoulder. Bullets hit water as trainees cross the over under simulated combat conditions. Men move cross the river as they move across a rope. Troops use a rope to come up onto to the river bank.
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