U.S. Air Force aircraft targeting Viet Cong positions in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Aerial views of bombs exploding in a wooded valley. Heavy smoke rises due to the bombings. A U.S. Air Force A-1E Skyraider attack aircraft strafes the area.
U.S. Air Force aircraft targeting Viet Cong positions in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. U.S. Air Force F-4C Phantom fighter-bomber airplanes dropping GP (general-purpose) and napalm bombs in valley followed by F-100D Super Sabre dropping napalm bombs in the same area.
A film about aerospace medical evacuation and first aid operations for injured soldiers in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. An American soldier walks through jungle. Soldier talks over a field phone as he asks for medical help. An air ambulance helicopter takes off. Huey UH-1 helicopter flies over jungle. Wounded on litters being carried away and loaded onto the helicopter. Helicopters lined up on a field. Soldiers on a field as they fire at enemy position. A soldier requests for medical aid. A soldier in a jeep asks for medical aid. Men of the 283rd Air Medical Detachment locate the position of the wounded on a map and get aboard the helicopter. Helicopter in flight. Pilot talks to a soldier as he tries to locate their position. Pilot works on the throttle. Helicopter lands and wounded on litters being loaded aboard the helicopter while battle continues in background. Huey UH-1 helicopter lifts off and in flight. A soldier speaks on wireless. On landing, wounded soldier is removed from helicopter by nurses and doctors of medical team.
Flood relief operations being carried on in Vietnam. Vietnam air Force C-47 aircraft flies low as it approaches the landing strip at Rach Gia airport. Plane lands and taxis along the strip. Other planes parked at the airport. Aerial views of flooded villages in Mekong Delta area in Vietnam. Houses surrounded by water, fields filled with flood waters along river channel. Houses submerged in water, palm trees. Flooded areas. (Vietnam War period).
Scenes from massive offensive by 1st Air Cavalry Division against the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) in A Shau Valley, during the Vietnam War. Film opens showing scattered wreckage of a U.S. Army UH-1H helicoptor damaged by enemy fire or by collision with obstacles during landing. As troops work to clear wreckage, another UH-1 lands precariously in the midst of debris. United States Army soldiers dismount. Other soldiers work around the crash site. Nearby, a contingent of troops is busy carving out a proper landing zone, using small tools and a number of chain saws. Two of them pass close by the camera, carrying a huge tree trunk. Troops employ chain saws close to one another as they work on the tangled underbrush and trees. In the background, one soldier chops smaller brush with a machete. (Note: It has been reported that these scenes depict elements of B Company, 227th Assault Helicopter battalion, at LZ Pepper, and the UH-1H seen landing might be from the 1st/9th "Head Hunters.")
UH-1D Helicopters fly overhead at Camp Evans, Thua Thei Province, South Vietnam. 1st Air Cavalry Division troops work in camp area. M-110 Howitzer parked on ground. Crew loads shells into Howitzer. Ch-47 Chinook helicopter flies overhead. Quadrant placed on Howitzer to check level. (Vietnam War period).
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