U.S. Navy peace time operations in the Pacific. U.S. Navy TBM Avenger aircraft in flight overhead. The aircraft in flight over the clouds. The aircraft flying in formation. Aerial view of the ground. Pilot at controls in the cockpit of the aircraft. The aircraft in flight over an island.
Jeannette Rankin, of Montana, the first woman elected to U.S. House of Representatives (served April 1917 through December 1918). A pacifist, co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union, and champion of humanitarian causes, she is seen addressing a group from a speakers pavilion in Union Square, Manhattan, New York City, in September, 1924. She accepts a glass of water from an associate (unseen). Closeups of Rankin leaning over the railing above an American flag, as she speaks to assembled group of men and women. From further away, several men and women associates can be seen at work behind her in the pavilion. Views from behind and to her right, with listeners below and cars parked in the square. Street scene in background. As before, Ms Rankin leans forward to be better heard. (There is no evidence of microphone in use.)
Opening slate reads: "Operation Rio Grande" and shows partial date of "11-2....." (The complete date is November 20-27, 1967, when this Search and Destroy mission was launched by the U.S. Marines 5th and 7th Brigades with South Vietnamese forces support during the Vietnam War.) A U.S. Marine jet aircraft dives low and drops a bomb on a Viet Cong position. View from overflying CH-46A helicopter of others maneuvering low over rice paddies, where smoke rises from some small fires, possibly from helicopter M60 machine gun fire. Helicopters parked with rotors turning on a large open field. Helicopters maneuvering low above the ground, and then climbing and departing the area.
U.S. Marines in Quang Ngai, Vietnam during Operation Rio Grand of the Vietnam War. Film opens showing a line of U.S. marines patrolling in area of rice paddies. A hut is burning in the background. Closeup of two marines consulting maps. One points in a direction. Camera pans from the burning hut to the marines with the maps. (Another one has joined them.) Camera focuses on marines leading two suspected Viet Cong men wearing nón lá (conical hats). Next, the marines are seen herding an entire family of suspected Viet Cong including women and children. A Viet Cong suspect, stripped to the waist during interrogation, puts on his hat and shirt. He is given a packet of documents. Closeup of Vietnamese woman. Marines relax taking a break.
U.S. Marines in Con Thien, Vietnam during the Vietnam War. United States Marine Corps A-4 Skyhawk and F-4 Phantom II aircraft patrol an area. Smoke rises from an area after bombing. Explosions occur and smoke rises. U.S. Marines advance across an area.
U.S. Army soldiers in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. U.S. Army UH-1D Iroquois helicopters approach a field for an assault landing. The helicopters land and troops disembark. The soldiers advance across a field. They enter into a dense jungle. Infantrymen seated in a field as they listen to an officer.
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