Elephant being airlifted from Trang Phuc to Chu Lai Air Base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. United States Army (USA) captain Scott Gantt fire a hypodermic dart (M-99) from air gun. Natives observe preparations for loading elephant onto the aircraft. The elephant tries to get up and falls on the cargo net. The USA special forces tie the cargo net around the elephant. A forklift in the background. Natives stand near a jeep.
Views from U.S. 1st Air Cavalry Division positions during Operation JEB Stuart III in Vietnam. U.S. Air Force F-100 and F-105 fighter bombers hitting enemy forces on the ground. UN-1D helicopter fires rocket at enemy position. Explosion and smoke rises from terrain. Several helicopters flying in the area. AN-1G Attack helicopter fires rockets at enemy position. OH-13 helicopter touches down and immediately leaves again from U.S. fire base on a hill top. Several U.S. Army troops occupy the base.
Activities at VNAF air base in Vietnam. Secretary of U.S. Air Force, Robert C. Seamans, along with Gen. Lucius Clay, 7th AF Commander and other officers inspecting training center facilities at the VNAF's Nha Trang Air Base. He is being briefed about the activities at Nha Trang by the VNAF officer. He is also meeting the VNAF personnel and visits the operations room at Nha Trang. (Vietnam War period).
Excerpt from film entitled "Counterattack- Marine Air Ground Team," about U.S. Marines in the Vietnam War. Marines are seen walking cautiously across irrigation ditches in cultivated region of South Vietnam. Scene shifts to one marine looking down at a hole where smoke is rising at the base of a berm. Vietnamese families evacuating their village where marines are burning houses and huts. View from riverbank strung with barbed wire, where marines are relaxing while gunfire is heard and black smoke rises from fires burning across the river. Next, a city is seen jammed with Vietnamese refugees with their belongings (some being assisted by ARVN soldiers) making their way through the crowds. A fallen civilian seen on the ground, victim of the Viet Cong (VC). Buildings and places of worship severely damaged by the VC. A bearded old Vietnamese man wearing a non la (conical hat) and smoking a cigarette, is questioned by a U.S. soldier. (Narrator says civilians are reluctant to say much for fear of reprisals.) Marines walking slowly through a village, and then through areas of trees and brush, open areas, and dense jungle. View of underbelly of a U.S. jet fighter bomber in flight over water, carrying two BLU-10 250 lb Napalm Bombs. A Marine A-4 Skyhawk jet aircraft dives down and drops a bomb that explodes with large fireball and black smoke. Closeup of an A-4 in flight. View of pilot in cockpit and sound of conversation with ground controllers. Pilot asks if there are any more requests from the "grunts." Anachronistic Inserted images of two Marine F-4 aircraft from VMFA 232 (Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 232). They display "Red Devil" insignia on their sides. (They flew ground support in F-4s from Chu Lai Air base, Vietnam, commencing 1969.) View shifts to Marines "Grunts" in sandy area, with one communicating by radio. Next, a jet fighter bomber swoops down and unloads bombs that explode in succession on the ground. Marines in heavily sandbagged trenches. A jet fighter flies low overhead at very high speed. Another succession of bomb bursts is seen. Sea-going Marines arrive and exit Boeing CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters, at landing zone. Views of Marines exiting the choppers and then a variety of views of CH-46s in flight. Closeup of one in flight. View of interior, with a squad of Marines, inside, in battle gear. CH-46s landing and taking off.
Viet Cong prisoners being escorted under armed guard by Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) soldiers, in mountain areas near Tuy Hoa, South Vietnam. Vietcong prisoners are marched with hands above their heads. They are brought before ARVN intelligence officer, Lieutenant Nguyen Khoan and his American adviser, Capt. Edward N. Fletcher, of MAAG (Military Assistance Advisory Group) Team 28. The officers direct the guards where to take the prisoners.
Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) Intelligence Officer, Lieutenant Nguyen Khoan, and Captain Edward N. Fletcher, of U.S. Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG)Team 28, interrogate a Vietcong prisoner in mountain areas near Tuy Hoa, South Vietnam. The Vietcong (VC) prisoner under armed guard, is questioned by the officers. Afterwards, Captain Fletcher places a map on the ground, and both officers look at it.
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