A film titled 'Social Security for nation' about aims of the Social Security Act of 1935 in the United States. Exteriors of the U.S. Supreme Court Building in Washington DC. A picture of Supreme Court Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo. Exterior view of Empire State Building in New York City, panning upward. A passenger train and locomotive underway at high speed toward camera position. Cars and buses on a busy city street. Women at work as telephone switchboard operators, with a woman supervisor pacing behind them. Elevated view of pedestrians in busy city street intersection, crossing a street. Children on a playground swing set in a park. A copy of the Social Security Plan. A chart depicts how the social security administration works. A sign reads 'Social Security Board'. Members of the board at a desk including Chairman Arthur J. Altmeyer, Allan S. Woodward and George G. Biggy.
Film starts showing two CH-46A helicopter in flight low over rice paddies during the Vietnam War. View is from another helicopter flying above. An M60 machine gun is seen sticking out of the overflying helicopter. White smoke is rising from some small fires on the ground. Several CH-46 choppers are seen on the ground with rotors turning. Glimpse of M60 machine gun protruding from the overflying camera helicopter. Small fire burning behind the parked choppers. Change of scene shows 4 U.S. jet aircraft in formation. One dives down and drops napalm on a target marked by white smoke. The bomb explodes in a fireball billowing dense smoke. Another jet drops a bomb in wooded area.
Opening slate identifies this footage as from "Operation Rio Grande" which ran from November 20-27, 1967. It was a Search and Destroy mission which incorporated the U.S. Marines 5th and 7th Brigades along with Republic of Vietnam marines and Army units during the Vietnam War. Patrolling marines walk across a field. Next, marines are seen crossing a crude log bridge on a road through jungles. View from rear of a marine approaching a thatched roofed dwelling, where he joins other marines. Some weapons are seen on the ground. They gather at a low entrance to the house where another marine is searching inside. He comes out carrying an automatic pistol that he hands to another marine. The marines search other houses in the small cluster of homes. Several marines gather outside the huts. One speaks on a PRC-25 radio. They begin moving away from the area. In a different area, a marine pulls a cover off a hole in the ground which conceals an entry to a tunnel. He slowly crawls into it. He passes a large roll of paper, covered with plastic, to a marine standing outside the tunnel entrance. As he emerges from the tunnel he passes an orange-colored object to the marine outside.
U.S. Marines in Con Thien, Vietnam during the Vietnam War. United States Marines near a tank as they retrieve bodies of dead Marines on a field. A Marine wearing a gas mask. A dead Marine being loaded onto the tank. The Marines and the tank move across the field to retrieve the dead Marines. A Marine with a gas mask on his face.
U.S. Marines in Con Thien, Vietnam during the Vietnam War. United States Marines fire M-16 rifles and .45 pistols. A tank rolls across a field to retrieve dead Marines. The Marines advance across a field. Dead Marines lying on the ground. Holy Bible lying on the ground, opened to John 1. A Marine speaks over a field phone.
U.S. Marines in Con Thien, Vietnam during the Vietnam War. United States Marines advance across a field as they retrieve dead Marines. A Vietnamese soldier (interpreter) speaks to the Marines as a Marine holds a piece of paper. The Marines advance and set up a field phone. A Marine with bandaged left arm. Marine speaks over PRC-25 radio. A dead Marine lies next to him. The Marines milling about on a field. A damaged building in the background. A Marine examines a dead Marine. There appears to be a broken tread of a tank in the background. Two Marines with M-16 rifles wearing bullet proof vests move across the field as smoke rises in the background. They duck suddenly as they appear to be under fire.
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