AC-119G Gunship in flight with view of fields on ground. Flares fired from AC-119G Gunship descends in dark sky at night.
Crewman loads flares in dispenser aboard AC-119G Gunship. He flips switches on gun control panel. Airmen work on mini gun aboard AC-119G Gunship and adjust angle of depression.
1st Air Cavalry Dv. of Operation Delaware. A Shau Valley filled with smoke and pockmarked with craters all over. April 1968.
U.S. soldier interrogate native through native interpreter. American soldiers briefed in front of a map. Soldiers leave after briefing. American soldier fires .45 car pistol into the air. Natives step up to table and questioned by another native. Native marks the document. Natives search a prisoner outside a big hut. They pull a Vietnamese man out of the hut and forcibly bind his hands behind his back.
Vietnamese natives with rifles enter a compound. Native women weave cloth on looms. Native huts. Natives lined up with rifles. Native receives rifle aiming instructions from American soldier. Native troops in formation inspected by American soldier.
Natives receive rifle assembly instructions from American soldier of Special Forces. Native troops in formation inspected by American soldier. Native patrol leave compound with an American soldier.