OV-10 FAC plane of the U.S. Air Force drops bombs on the enemy position in Vietnam during the Nui Ba Den Mountain Assault. U.S. soldiers move down the rugged mountainside. OV-10 FAC plane in flight over the enemy position and rockets fired. Plane maneuvers. The plane dives. Smoke arises from the base of the mountain as the bomb hits the target. Reflection of soldiers in a puddle of water. (Vietnam War period).
Block and tackle arrangement used to lay concrete blocks for the construction of a water tunnel in United States. Concrete blocks on a car. Workers use block and tackle to remove pre-cast concrete lining block from a car on rails and attach it to the erector arm of block and tackle system. The erector arm swings around towards the ceiling of the tunnel and lowers the block on the ground. Several blocks are removed in this manner.
Soldiers of the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment of the U.S. Army pass through a forest in Cambodia. Dust rises as the vehicles M-113 Armored Personnel Carriers and M-551 Sheridan tanks pass on the unpaved path. Vegetation in the forest. A U.S. soldier talks on radio. Two soldiers handle equipment. Soldiers near the vehicles.
Soldier of 1st Air Cavalry Division of the U.S. Army lays out ammunition from captured North Vietnamese weapons cache on the ground. A box of ammunition on the ground. A U.S. soldier kneels beside it and takes out ammunition from the box. Fuses for 60mm mortar. 92mm rounds. 60mm, 120mm and SKS rounds. l20mm mortar fuse. Soldier takes 60mm mortar rounds from box. Soldier takes rifle slings from box. Open magazine of .51 cal ammo.
Soldiers of the 1st Air Cavalry Division of the U.S. Army with a seized North Vietnamese Army weapons cache. They attach sling of cargo net to CH-47 helicopter. Purple colored smoke rises from the LZ (landing zone) as the soldiers signal to a CH-47 Chinook helicopter of the U.S. Army to land. The helicopter hovers in the sky before landing. A soldier stands near a cargo net containing crates of the captured ammunition. The soldier attaches the sling of the cargo net to the helicopter. The helicopter takes off and uplifts the cargo net.
U.S. Army infantry making their way through a lightly wooded area during training exercise. Field artillery crew firing an M114 155mm howitzer. Troops riding on a tank. Soldiers in the field firing a mortar and a machine gun. Aerial view of a U.S. Army supply depot, filled with supplies. View of C-130 aircraft flying overhead, and then, of interior cargo compartment with supplies being discharged through its open rear door, and descending by parachutes in the so-called "Container delivery system." Next in a closeup, a C-130 in flight close to the ground, delivers a tank, which is pulled from its rear door by a large parachute. View of the tank safely skidding to a stop on the ground. A C-130 makes a short field landing on relatively unprepared terrain, raising clouds of dust as it reverses its propellers. Troops quickly exit through the open rear loading door, followed by an M47 light tank.
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