Views from a slow moving aircraft (possibly a helicopter) of the port facilities at Cam Rahn Bay, during the Vietnam War. The port has 5 deep water piers, 4 for general cargo and one further north for ammunition. Cranes installed by Sea-Land are seen on pier 4. Sorry there was no navy base or training center in 1970. This clip shows the Army base and port.
Madeleine Hartog Bell of Peru (Miss World, 1967) and Bob Hope at the 4th Infantry Division's base Camp Enari in Pleiku, South Vietnam. Madeleine Hartog Bell comes on the stage and waves to the soldiers gathered there. Bob Hope and Madeleine Hartog Bell speak. A soldier, John W. Spencer, joins them on stage. John Spencer speaks to Bob Hope and Madeleine Hartog Bell. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. Army Special Forces operating near Ba Me Ga west of Ban Me Thout, Vietnam. A Special Forces Mobile Strike Force (Mike Force) soldier slits open a Vietcong rice bag. The team encounters a dying Vietcong soldier in brush. Mike Force member searches the VC's body for documents. Information about Vietcong anti-tank mines and tax collection documents are reportedly found on the VC. ( Note: It has also been reported that some elements of the Mike Force unit drove over an uncharted anti tank mine on the way back to base, after the mission, killing and wounding members of Special Forces, Australian Army Training Team Vietnam, and Montagnard strike force troopers.)
Aerial view showing smoke rising from a bombed jungle in the Vietnam War. Helicopters flying over a jungle just south of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone during Operation Hastings. Helicopter landing in open field. United States Marine Corp (USMC) Marines commander Major General Lowell E. English talking outside a tent with officers. Major General Lowell E. English points to a map of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone, showing where the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) forces are building up in the Vietnamese DMZ and the United States Marines positions at the beginning of Operation Hastings. United States helicopters landing near the Vietnamese DMZ. United States Marines Sikorsky H-34 helicopter landing in field. Marines run and assume prone position along a fence line, possibly the DMV. Marine Corps officer Major Donald Cook discusses how the Marines acted as Operations Hastings developed in the Vietnamese DMZ. A map of the DMZ is seen behind Major Cook. A Marine firing a gun. A United States fighter jet dropping an incendiary bomb. Marines running across the battlefield. Fairchild C-123 Provider takes off from an airfield. Sikorsky H-34 helicopter in the foreground. Dong-Ha Combat Base as seen from an aircraft cockpit. Reserve battalion unload weapons and supplies at Dong-Ha base. A tractor pulls a Howitzer. Lockheed C-130 Hercules parked on runway. Soldiers loading boxes in the back of a truck. Marines moving across dusty field. Some Marines climb into a Boeing Vertol CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter. A helicopter lifts off and flies away. Marines inside a Boeing Vertol CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter. A fighter drops bombs over a field, bombs explode upon impact. A Boeing Vertol CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter lands and a group of Marines exit rear door. The helicopter flies away. Combat scenes showing Marines fighting in the battlefield, with one throwing a grenade. Marine fires M60 machine gun while another drips oil on it to cool it down. Marine hunkered down while trying to unroll a bandage. A Marine communicates with a field telephone.
U.S. Air Force C-130 airdrop operations in 1968, during Vietnam War. C-130 aircraft in flight. View of supplies being airdropped. View from inside cabin of a C-130, as South Vietnamese paratroopers jump from the aircraft. A heavy pallet of supplies being pulled onto a runway by parachutes, from the rear of a low-flying C-130. Scene shifts to October 14, 1973,at Lod International Airport, Tel Aviv, Israel, where a U.S. Air Force Military Airlift Command C-5 aircraft is unloading 186,200 pounds of military assistance cargo, at the start of the U.S. "Nickel Grass" airlift operation during the Yom Kippur war or Arab-Israeli War of 1973. Pallets of ammunition are seen being offloaded, followed by a 175mm self-propelled gun, covered with wooden cargo boxes. Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir and other observers watch stand on the airport ramp. Golda Meir meets and greets members of the U.S. Air Force crew.
A film about aerospace medical evacuation of wounded American soldiers during the Vietnam War. A United State Air Force Military Airlift Command C-141 aircraft lands at an airport in Philippines to pick up wounded American soldiers and ferry them back home. View of medical air evacuation equipment tied down in the aircraft's cargo hold. Trailers pull up near the aircraft. Men unload cargo from the aircraft and put it onto the trailer. Trailers pull away from the airport. Airmen prepare the interior of the aircraft for medical air evacuation.. Seats being put up. Poles being erected. Oxygen masks and other medical equipment being set up aboard the airplane.
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