Ho Chin Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi, Vietnam. Guards place wreaths at the foot of the mausoleum. Men view the mummy of President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, Ho Chin Minh, preserved in the mausoleum. One of the sources of damage to preserved bodies is black spores. A laboratory technician experiments with means to eliminate black spores. A chart shows the position of black spores on face of mummy.
U.S. prisoners of war are marched in Hanoi, Vietnam during the Vietnam War. U.S. prisoners are marched by North Vietnamese soldiers along a street. The prisoners march along the street lined up by screaming spectators. The prisoners are handcuffed in pairs and they wear numbered shirts. One pair of handcuffed Americans wear the numbers 399 (Edward Alan Brudno) and 381 (WIlliam Micahel Tschudy) on their backs. A crowd of North Vietnamese surround soldiers carrying an unconscious injured American captive. The soldiers try to hold back the crowd. One soldier waves a pistol in one hand as he helps carry the American captive with the other. Photographers take pictures as the soldiers place the captive American in a covered truck and drive away through the crowd.
Vietcong Tet Offensive in Saigon, Vietnam during the Vietnam War. A U.S. Army armored commando car V-100 drives on a narrow street towards a wrecked 2.5 ton truck. Trees on either side of the street. Smoke in the background. U.S. Army soldiers and military police fire rifles during battle. U.S. Soldiers take cover behind walls and fire rifles. The armored commando car backs out from the narrow street away from the burned out truck. A wounded soldier is taken from the V-100. He is placed on a litter and is carried to an ambulance. A wrecked, bullet ridden Vietcong car outside the U.S. Embassy compound. Vietcong dead being collected on the American Embassy grounds. Vietnamese civilians on vehicles on the streets. M-113 Armored Personnel Carriers drive past U.S. 25th Infantry Division. Houses along the sides of the streets.
U.S. 3rd Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division operations at Phu Bai Combat Base near Hue, Vietnam. Film begins showing a sign for the 85th Evacuation Hospital, with its motto, "Miracularum Laborantes" that the hospital staff translated as "Miracle Workers." Next a jeep is seen driving out of the hospital compound. It has the name "Fearless Fly" stenciled beneath its windshield. In the background hospital enlisted quarters can be seen. The jeep stops leaving the compound before joining traffic headed North on Highway !, where it passes a building on the left reportedly converted into basketball and volleyball courts. Considerable traffic is seen in both directions on the road, including trucks carrying various army cargo and personnel. A Vietnamese couple is seen riding together on a motorbike. An army flat bed truck drives next to an area with many buildings and a red and white checkered water tank. The camera focuses on a sign at the entrance to that road which points to: "528th QM Co Package POL Yard & filling station." The camera then pans across an open field showing buildings in the distance. Change of scene shows a fenced compound with buildings and a parked truck inside. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. 82nd Airborne Division operations at Phu Bai Combat Base near Hue, Vietnam. Sign reads 'Liftmaster Pad'. U.S. Army CH-47 Chinooks parked in revetments at a helipad. Helipad control tower. Chinooks in revetments (Vietnam War period).
U.S. soldiers at Tan Son Nhut Air Base, Vietnam. A soldier holds up red panties with 'Merry Christmas' written on it. A soldier holds up a box with a small tree on it. Gifts are taken out of an ammunition box. A soldier places a cardboard star on a tree. Another soldier squirts shaving cream on the branches. A chaplain on a make shift altar near a bunker. The soldiers listen to the chaplain. Two soldiers sit near a 50 caliber machine gun. One soldier holds up the box with the Christmas tree on it. The other man holds up the red panties. A soldier leans against sandbags and writes a letter. (Vietnam War period).
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