Opening scene shows closeup of a member of the U.S. Army First Infantry Division Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol unit (LRRP) wearing a black beret with parachutist's badge. In background,LRRP members watch as an instructor demonstrates how to field strip a Soviet AK-47 assault rifle. Scene shifts to viewpoint of soldiers watching the instructor. Tents are seen in the background. Closeups of instructor show master parachutist badge on his black beret. Scene shifts again to a large sign containing a large painted logo with a picture of a Vietcong in the center, surrounded by images of black berets. The combat infantryman badge is shown at the top and 1st Infantry Division and MACV recondo badges appear at opposite sides of the sign. (Note: LRRP Units were Airborne, Special Forces. The LRRP Unit of the 1st Infantry Division, shown in these scenes, on January 1st, was, at that time, designated: Company F of the 52nd Infantry Regiment.) (Vietnam War period).
An aircraft flying over fields and approaching runway at an air base in Vietnam. Aircraft lands using and runs over the air strip. As the plane reaches the end of airstrip another plane is also seen.
An aircraft flies over fields,a few houses and trees as it approaches towards a dirt airstrip at Long Thanh in Dong Nai province in south east Vietnam. The aircraft lands at the dirt airstrip using and moves over it as a military truck remains parked towards the right of the runway.
An aircraft flies over tress as it prepares to land at Tom le Chom airstrip in Vietnam. Broken branches of trees lie on the ground as the plane approaches the airstrip. Plane lands using at an airstrip filled with water puddles and runs over it.
Camera pans over a closeup of British Lieutenant-General Arthur Ernest Percival who was captured in the fall of Singapore. American Lieutenant-general Jonathan Wainwright, smoking the stub of a cigar, as he sits with U.S.Major General Edward P. King, Jr. (Both were imprisoned in the Japanese invasion of the Philippines.) A naval officer POW posing in front of a tree. Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies, in pith helmet, smoking a cigarette. POWs eating and conversing with Japanese interpreters, (One POW appears to be U.S. Brigadier General George F. Moore, who was imprisoned along with Wainright and King, in the Philippines.) View of POWs in a library, where one is reading from a script, while being recorded. Other POWs looking at documents.
A pilot turning and tuning a radio crank of a U.S. Air Force BT-13 aircraft. Pilot handles sticks and throttles inside the cockpit of the aircraft.
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