United States Army's Major General John Norton stands beside an army UH-1D helicopter at the An Khe Air Base in Vietnam. He speaks on the success off their air strikes missions and says that they have demonstrated a successful use of close air support by deployment of various aircraft in Vietnam. Another UH-1D on ground in the background with U.S. troops aboard it. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. corpsmen at 3rd Battalion Aid station attend to a wounded soldier of the 34th Infantry Division's 442nd Regimental Combat Team (comprising U.S. soldiers of Japanese ancestry) in the Italian Rome-Arno Campaign during World War 2. They carry him from a jeep into a field hospital, where they check an information tag on his uniform. View of his bandaged left foot. Medics attend another wounded solder and bandage his wrist before moving him on his stretcher into the building. Two corpsmen lift a wounded soldier, in sitting position, into a field ambulance, which then drives away. (Note: the opening slate refers to Lt. Frank Morang, 196th Signal Photo Company, who reportedly received a field commission for his outstanding work in the North African, Sicilian and Italian Campaigns.)
General William C Westmoreland, the Commander of U.S. Forces in Vietnam, talks with men of the 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry at the U.S. Airborne Brigade base camp in Phanrang, South Vietnam. General Westmoreland talks with reporters. They pose for camera. General and others leave area in jeep.
U.S. 1st Air Cavalry Division armed with M-16 rifles advance in a grassy area of Ankhe, South Vietnam, during a training mission. Soldiers aim with their rifles and advance. Soldiers descend from a hovering CH-47 helicopter using a rope ladder. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. 1st Air Cavalry Division troops at a sandbagged emplacement in Ankhe, Vietnam. Gun crewman holds a 106mm shell, as a Sergeant uses wrench to adjust fuze on its nose. Soldier then loads it into M-40 Recoilless Rifle. Another soldier looks through a scope mounted on side of the weapon. View of the 106mm shell. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. 199th Light Infantry Brigade troops break sand bag emplacements and bunkers at Fire Support Base Myron, as they prepare to withdraw from Cambodia. They empty sand bags and climb atop bunkers and break them using hammers.
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