Tactical Communications, Operation Junction City at War Zone-C in South Vietnam. U.S. soldiers of 2nd Battalion, 173rd Airborne Brigade in action. Wounded soldiers wait for medical helicopter to be evacuated. Soldiers sit in foxhole. Other soldiers crawl as they come under enemy fire. Officer speaks over PRC-25 radio. Soldiers set up a screen of fire with M-16 rifles into jungle. Soldier with jammed M-16 rifle. Another soldier comes to help him. Soldiers fire 81mm mortar. Soldiers with M-16 rifle ready to fire in bush. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. soldiers move near a zigzag Vietcong trench in a jungle in South Vietnam. Smoke rises from fire in background. Two U.S. soldiers sit in an open field. They talk to each other and smoke. (Vietnam War period).
First day of duty for group of United States Air Force personnel in South Vietnam. Personnel descend from a Trans International DC-8 airplane at the Tan Son Nhut air force base. Personnel standing in a line at a cashier's window at the airport terminal. Personnel receive currency by presenting Military Payment Certificates. A bus of the United States Air Force carries the newly arrived personnel from the airport. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. Marine aircraft and transporters supply in South Vietnam. A fork lift loads tiers into air transporter craft. A CH-46 helicopter in flight. Boxes at base. The CH-46 helicopter lands. Soldiers load boxes in the craft. U.S. artillery is fired. Logistics dropped from air are attached to parachutes. Bombing near air craft. Bombing on artillery at night. Ammunition loaded in air craft. Maintenance work of craft. Bomber parked at revetment with bombs. Bombs loaded on McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II. Damaged air plane. Troops get onto plane and fly to a hospital ship. A wounded soldier in air plane. Machine gun at door. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. 1st Marine Aircraft Wing in action in South Vietnam. Ground troops about 20 meters away from the enemy. 1st Marine Aircraft Wing Headquarter is contacted. Personnel at air base takes the information about location. Pilots are briefed by a briefing officer. He says three runs on target and last man calls off target. Pilots and crew run towards aircraft. They sit in F-4 Phantom and A-4 Sky Hawks. Crafts taxi out of revetments and take off. Ground troops fire. Aerial views as bombers and fighter jets drop bombs and fire rockets on enemy targets. Fire and explosions on ground. Point of view (POV) shots from forward underbelly of aircraft showing rocket launchers as rockets are fired at targets. Dramatic explosions on ground. Marine Forward Air Controller informs the base about accurate bombing. Ground troops move forward. Viet civilians walk on road. (Vietnam War period).
United States conducts air strike on targets in south Vietnam during Vietnam War. Small boats at rivers edge in area of pier. Huge explosion goes off at river edge of pier and small boats appear to be a direct hit. Another huge explosion goes off in an area of small boats along river's edge. Bomb crater below at river's edge, smoke rises from the river. Out over water and some of the peninsula sticking into water. A bomb explodes along the edge of a canal. A-1H in flight. Fighting Air Command's (FAC) type aircraft pulling up in background, flying very low, bomb heads towards shoreline of canal and explodes. A-1H in flight in the background. Bomb being released from the aircraft and hits shoreline of the canal resulting in an explosion. A-1H in flight. Napalm explodes along the shoreline resulting in fire. A-1H in flight over target area.
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