During Tet Offensive in Hue, Vietnam: U.S. Marines of 'L' Company holding M-79 grenade launcher stands behind tree looking toward smoke rising in the background. Portion of building explodes during battle. 50cal machine gun fired from M-48 tank parked near portion of stone wall. Marines carry and drag wounded marine while they are under fire. Marines around mechanical mule. Wounded marine loaded onto mechanical mule. Mechanical mule is driven off. Other marines crawl on ground under fire. Some of the Marines move quickly toward M-48 tank and disappear behind stone wall. Marines move past a wrecked jeep. Marines stand and sit near heavily damaged buildings. Marines move ahead near a large building. Marines move past pedicab and buildings. Marines with M-16 rifles move past large building, portion of which reads 'Dau Dong'. Marines run. (Vietnam War period).
ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam) soldiers carry wounded person wrapped in blanket on wooden stretcher followed by refugees. Buildings in the background. Large number of Vietnamese refugee men, women and children stand in dirt area. Burned remains of destroyed M-48 tank in dirt area. RFK-60 rough terrain forklift backs up and carries conex box across the area. RFK lifts another conex box. Second forklift carries civilian Ford Bronco vehicle. First forklift repeats the action. Forklift tries to move up front ramp of beached LCU (Landing Craft Utility). (Vietnam War period, during Tet Offensive).
Vietnamese civilians walk along road, carrying their belongings. AVRN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam) soldiers on road. Sign on side of the building reads, 'HUE MACV COMPUND'. Many marines stand and walk in area. Jeeps and trucks near Hue MACV Compound building. The U.S. flag on a building. View above MACV Compound. Trees in area. The U.S. flag and white smoke rises in the background. (Vietnam War, Tet Offensive period).
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).
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