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Gulf of Tonkin response: President Johnson announces U.S. action as United States soldiers and aircraft are rushed to Vietnam
United States planes and soldiers are rushed to Vietnam, responding to the Gulf of Tonkin crisis. U.S. Destroyer Maddox seen underway in the gulf of North Vietnam following reported skirmish with North Vietnamese torpedo boats (the "Maddox Incident.") Narrator indicates U.S. war planes from two carriers avenged the unwarranted Red communist assault with 64 sorties against North Vietnam. An airman boards a U.S. aircraft. Night view of the White House in Washington DC. President Lyndon Johnson addresses the American people in a midnight speech on August 4, 1964 describing U.S. actions in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident. Scenes of South Vietnamese women and children evacuees looking exhausted and scared beside nearby American helicopters. The President's speech continues, including, "We Americans know, although others appear to forget, the risks of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war." View of the United Nations building in New York and flags of various nations at the UN building. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson is seen making his report of the Gulf of Tonkin attacks to the UN Security Council and affirms U.S. position that it wants the people in Vietnam to be free of North Vietnamese intervention and agression. United States military advisors and U.S. Army soldiers board helicopters. A gunner aims at a target on the ground. Vietnamese troops accompany U.S. soldiers. South Vietnamese forces exit a helicopter and wade through water and rice paddies. U.S. soldiers advance in trucks with artillery. A Douglas TBD Devastator aircraft takes off armed with a torpedo. Another one lands at an airfield. A TBD plane, armed with a torpedo, taxis with wings folded. several TBD aircraft parked on a flight line. The President concludes his remarks referring to "firmness in the right" being indispensible for peace. (Vietnam War period).
Lyndon Baines Johnson accompanied by officials speaks and awards officers at Cam Ranh Bay Air Base in Vietnam.
President of the United States Lyndon Baines Johnson visits Cam Ranh Bay Air Base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. American General William C. Westmoreland and President Lyndon Baines Johnson mount a trailer platform. William C. Westmoreland at a podium. President Lyndon Baines Johnson speaks and pins Distinguished Service Medals on to officers for their services. William C. Westmoreland, General William Wallace Momyer, U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam Ellsworth Bunker, Deputy Commander of Military Assistance Command in Vietnam Creighton Williams Abrams Jr, Vice President of South Vietnam Nguyen Cao Ky present at the platform. President Lyndon Baines Johnson shakes hands with Nguyen Cao Ky. He talks to Ellsworth Bunker and William C. Westmoreland. President boards a United States Air Force aircraft VC-137B.
President Ngo Dinh Diem visits a hospital after a vietcong-sabotage train accident in Vietnam.
Regarding the struggle of the South Vietnamese people against Vietcong forces during the Vietnam war. South Vietnamese people on Railway station in Vietnam. Scene of a sabotaged train after attack, derailed and on its side. Children study in school. Teacher teaches. Scientists experiment in a laboratory. A nun teaches in a school. A soldier pushes his gun out from among the shrubs and shoots. Nuns in service of injured people. Scene of graveyard. Doctor checks patient. Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem on visit of a hospital. He sees injured patients. Guerrillas stand after surrender. Guns, rifles and grenades on display. Children play in a school. Honoring the dead by presenting a garland on their casket. South Vietnamese soldiers salute dead.
U.S. sends marines and army troops to Vietnam, and President Johnson defends the decision.
First scene shows U.S. marines descending rope net ladder from side of the USS Pickaway (APA-222) in waters off Da Nang, South Vietnam. Next, marines of 2nd Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment are seen hitting the beach at Danang, from her Higgins boats on 7 July,1965. Scene shifts to U.S. Air Force C-130 aircraft carrying U.S. army troops who are photographed as they step from the aircraft. Trucks carrying some of these soldiers drive along a road in South Vietnam. Officer confer over tactical map of an area. Vietnamese civilian refugees are seen struggling to depart. Small Vietnamese children at a school or other institution, are photographed as they line up and wash themselves before eating a meal. Smallest children are seated in high chairs. President Johnson seen saying "I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle." Pictures of young American men and women are shown in various places and circumstances. A young couple. A man in cowboy hat. A factory worker. A young man laughing. a steel worker on an I beam during construction of a high rise building. Young people assembled at some sort of occasion. Images of Chinese Chairman, Mao Zedong, and Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh. Bow of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier cutting the water, and then broad view of entire ship, the USS Randolph (CV-15). (Note: the Randolph played no role in the Vietnam War.) Aircraft being catapulted from a carrier. USAF B-52 bombers dropping bombs in Arc Light missions over Vietnam. Bombs exploding on the ground. U.S. Marines operating a type of landing craft tracked. Troops deploying from a landing craft at a beach. American troops making their way through jungles. Scene reverts back to President Johnson still speaking (July 28, 1965).
A barge complex (mobile base) in the river and sampans underway in the Cua Lon River during Operation Seafloat in Vietnam.
Operation Seafloat in the Cua Lon River, Vietnam. A mobile base in the river. American and South Vietnamese flags on the mobile base. A large field with the mobile base. A part of ATC seen nearby. Village rubble along the water edge. A guard on duty near the destroyed village. A barge complex (mobile base) in the background. The barge complex in the mid river. A large sampan underway in the river. South Vietnam flags seen on sampans. The sampan is tied to the barge complex. Other boats approach. Vietnamese in sampans alongside the barge. Republic of Vietnam personnel from the barge checks people and sampans. Two women on the sampan tied to the barge. Two men on the barge. Sampans in the background. Two USN (United States Navy) men work on a 50 caliber machine gun on a barge. The sampan pulls away from the side of the barge.
Tan Son Nhut Airport terminal building in Saigon, South Vietnam.
View of parking ramp at Tan Son Nhut Air Base (Than Son Nhat International Airport, Trường Sơn, Phường 2, Tân Bình, Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, Vietnam) in Saigon, Vietnam. A jet airplane seen climbing in distance. A C-130 transport parked on the ramp. Scene shifts to front of passenger building, with flags of various airlines (including Pan Am, Air America, Thai Airways, and Swire Group/Cathay Pacific Airways) flying atop the building. "Saigon Tan Son Nhut Airport" is lettered across the building. Striped awnings cover two doorways. Two utility vehicles are parked in front. Closeup of three airline flags.
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