A CH-47 helicopter brings ammunition and howitzer to United States Fire Support Base (FSB) Normandy and flies off. Soldiers set a 105mm howitzer. Another CH-47 brings a howitzer and sets it down. It then flies off. A CH-54 brings howitzer in sling. A CH-54 delivers a truck on top of a hill of the base. The aerial supply operations are conducted by the U.S. Army 160th Combat Aviation Group, in support of the 101st Airborne Division. (Vietnam War period).
Aerial views of Fourth Infantry Division main base camp (Camp Enari) and airfield. Three UH-1D helicopters in flight. Aerial view of the main base camp. Flying over AH-1G in revetment. Soldiers walk away from UH-1D helicopters at the camp. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. Army 9th Infantry Division in Vietnam. Aerial view of water filled rice paddies. Formation of helicopters in flight. Pilots in helicopter. Aerial view of base camp. Buildings and sheds at the base. Trucks parked. Nose art on helicopter reads "162nd Assault Helicopter Company, Vultures."
An air stair moves toward Air Force One aircraft (VC-137C SAM 26000) at Andrews Air Force Base near Morningside, Maryland. The casket bearing the body of President John F. Kennedy is taken out of Air Force One. President Kennedy’s casket is loaded into the hearse. The hearse is followed by a group of staff cars. President Lyndon B. Johnson and First Lady Lady Bird Johnson stand at microphones to make comments to the press following the assassination of President Kennedy in Texas.
U.S. Fire Support Base Ripcord in the A Shau Valley, South Vietnam, under siege by North Vietnam Army forces during the Vietnam War. Several 105mm towed howitzers are positioned atop the base, with barrels at high elevations. Camera focuses on Gunners loading and firing one. The wind is blowing very hard, complicating their activity and causing the cameraman trouble too, as it buffets his camera. The camera views several guns operating in the battery. The Battery then level their guns to fire point blank at their targets. (They also increase their powder charge to 7, the maximum.) the resultant recoil strikes and injures SP/4 Bowing of a gun crew, who falls and is seen lying at the back of his gun. The crew calls for help and carries him to the ground. Cameraman stops filming briefly.. Next, a soldier is seen leaning over SP/4 Bowing, rendering aid.
Vietnamese Coastal Group junk base in Degi, Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Aerial view: A river flowing. A heavily populated area. A junk base. A village and the junk base directly in the background. A pier extends over from a river bank.
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