Activities at AFB Vietnam. Secretary of U.S. Air Force Robert C. Seamans arrival at Tan Son Nhut flight line. Dr. Seamans inspecting the USAF and VNAF troops and presenting silver medals to USAF M Sgt.and two VNAF officers. Troops dispersing and congratulating the three officers who received the awards. Dr. Seamans and other officers boarding the staff cars and leaving. (Vietnam War period).
Scenes from massive offensive by 1st Air Cavalry Division against the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) in A Shau Valley, during the Vietnam War. Film opens showing scattered wreckage of a U.S. Army UH-1H helicoptor damaged by enemy fire or by collision with obstacles during landing. As troops work to clear wreckage, another UH-1 lands precariously in the midst of debris. United States Army soldiers dismount. Other soldiers work around the crash site. Nearby, a contingent of troops is busy carving out a proper landing zone, using small tools and a number of chain saws. Two of them pass close by the camera, carrying a huge tree trunk. Troops employ chain saws close to one another as they work on the tangled underbrush and trees. In the background, one soldier chops smaller brush with a machete. (Note: It has been reported that these scenes depict elements of B Company, 227th Assault Helicopter battalion, at LZ Pepper, and the UH-1H seen landing might be from the 1st/9th "Head Hunters.")
French Forces fight the Communist forces in Vietnam, French Indo-China. Aircraft in flight. French soldiers descend on land through parachutes. A soldier watches them. Other soldiers erect bunkers on the land. Some of them stand along the barbed wire entanglements. An aircraft in flight. Bombarding on the field causes the smoke to rise. Soldiers look at the rifles and other ammunitions. Smoke from fire in the background as forces from Communist Vietnam and France battle.
Operation 'Jackstay' in Vung Tau, Vietnam. U.S. Navy ship USS Princeton (CV-37) underway in Dong Tranh River. A Deck Petty Officer gives a signal for a helicopter lift off. A man talks over a telephone behind him. A shoreline in the background. The officer gives signal for take-off. Crewmen on the flight deck. Helicopter UH -34D lands on the flight deck. Men rush up with a stretcher. Men offload wounded men on stretchers. A wounded man is carried on a stretcher by three other wounded men. The wounded men lowered on the elevator to the hangar bay level en route to the sick bay. Personnel stand around the wounded men. The elevator arrives to flight deck level. Seriously wounded men are taken back to helicopters for removal to shore facilities. Men arrive at the side of helicopters with stretchers. Armored jackets lying on the deck. (Vietnam War period).
ROK (Republic of Korea) Tiger Division soldiers fire 105mm howitzer in Phuphong, Vietnam. The soldiers fire rifles on a range. (Vietnam War period).
ROK (Republic of Korea) Tiger Division soldiers in Phophong, Vietnam. ROK soldiers at an army observation point. A soldier stands near a chart and talks into a radio. A ROK soldier loads 60 mm mortars. The soldier fires a 50 caliber machine gun from a sandbagged position. Soldiers in a paddy field. (Vietnam War period).
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