United States soldiers prepare 105mm Howitzer rounds for firing at Fire Station Base Elliot in South Vietnam. M-107 Howitzer with 175 mm gun moved into firing position. Soldier lifts projectile from its rack. Soldier removes gravel in front of the Howitzer. (Vietnam War period).
United States soldiers prepare 105mm Howitzer for firing at Fire Station Base Elliot in South Vietnam. Soldier lifts projectiles from its rack and places it next to the howitzer. U.S. Army soldiers, including one African American soldier, load and fire M-107 Howitzer. (Vietnam War period).
Chan Tho Training base in South Vietnam. A large group of students of Popular Forces troops in a karate class. The men salute and stand at parade rest. They face each other, salute and stand in position for practicing karate blows. Two students salute the instructor and smash stack of thin boards kept in front of them. They smash the stacks with hands and salute the instructor. Four students salute and then break two bricks each. A student breaks the bricks with his hands. A student straddled on the shoulders of other student. Another student gives a high kick to kick something out of the other student's hands. Student up the shoulders of other students holds a thin stack. Another student kicks it. A student leaps over three students bent down. Two students fight each other. (Vietnam War period).
Students in karate class at attention. They stand in formation salute the Korean instructor at Chan Tho Training base in South Vietnam. Korean instructor gives a command to the class. Men break up from the class and run. Two students in karate uniform walk along a walkway. Popular Forces troops march in the compound. Small group of men walk in karate uniforms. A white square stone monument which reads 'To Quoc' and 'DHAN-EU'. The troops march to eat with mess kits in their hands. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. 3rd Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division operations at Phu Bai Combat Base near Hue, Vietnam. Film begins showing a sign for the 85th Evacuation Hospital, with its motto, "Miracularum Laborantes" that the hospital staff translated as "Miracle Workers." Next a jeep is seen driving out of the hospital compound. It has the name "Fearless Fly" stenciled beneath its windshield. In the background hospital enlisted quarters can be seen. The jeep stops leaving the compound before joining traffic headed North on Highway !, where it passes a building on the left reportedly converted into basketball and volleyball courts. Considerable traffic is seen in both directions on the road, including trucks carrying various army cargo and personnel. A Vietnamese couple is seen riding together on a motorbike. An army flat bed truck drives next to an area with many buildings and a red and white checkered water tank. The camera focuses on a sign at the entrance to that road which points to: "528th QM Co Package POL Yard & filling station." The camera then pans across an open field showing buildings in the distance. Change of scene shows a fenced compound with buildings and a parked truck inside. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. 82nd Airborne Division operations at Phu Bai Combat Base near Hue, Vietnam. Sign reads 'Liftmaster Pad'. U.S. Army CH-47 Chinooks parked in revetments at a helipad. Helipad control tower. Chinooks in revetments (Vietnam War period).
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