United States Army 1st Infantry Division nicknamed 'Big Red One' arrives at the beach. American color guard on a beach in Vietnam. General William C Westmoreland, Commander General, U.S. Army, Vietnam, on the beach landing area. Major General Jonathan O Seaman, Commander General 1st Infantry Division, on beach. He converses with Brigadier General John "Jack" Norton, Commander of the 1st Air Cavalry Division and Colonel Curt Aronson of his Division. .A Landing Craft Utility (LCU) arrives carrying the first contingent of the 1st Infantry Division. As the troops disembark, General Westmoreland shakes hands with first two soldiers. The soldiers carry barrack bags. Remainder of the film shows troops offloading from the LCU and making their way across the sand past the Generals and the color guard.(Vietnam War period).
Air kinescope of TV news broadcast about U.S. soldiers taken as prisoners of war (POWs) by the Viet Cong. Large illustration of POWs on wall behind newscaster, Charles Collingwood. A map of Vietnam highlights Con Thien, on the Vietnam-Laos border. Viet Cong film shows them, covered with foliage camouflage, firing small arms as they move through brush and surprise a group of American soldiers who surrender and are taken prisoner. The Americans are escorted by armed Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army soldiers. Views of individual American POWs. The news anchor speaks with a sign in the background that reads ' Causality reporting officer ' (Vietnam War period).
Soviet Union RPG-7 anti tank rocket fired during a demonstration in Vietnam. Fuel drums filled with dirt being used as targets as a Soviet RPG-7 rocket hits them in Vietnam. A cloud of smoke rises. A second round being fired and strikes the target. Rocket being removed from the rocket launcher by an American soldiers. After section of the rocket launcher as smoke and flame come out of the rear tubes. Captain M.S. Fletcher of the United States Army carries the rocket. Another soldier spins something off rear of the rocket. Captain Fletcher holds the rocket. Rocket bing inserted into the launch tube. Soldiers grouped around the rocket launcher. Rocket being launched and an explosion takes place in mid air. (Vietnam War period).
Flood relief operations being carried on in Vietnam. People walk on a street and Lieutenant Colonel L.K. Cuong talks to Vietnam Air Force officers. Boats leave the dock with VIP's and return. Huts submerged in water as a result of heavy floods. Over flooded river channel as a small boy operates an outboard motorboat. Two Vietnamese men row a boat through the flooded area with houses submerged in water. (Vietnam War period).
North Vietnamese documentary propaganda film. North Vietnamese gun boats firing in a river. North Vietnamese antiaircraft guns firing. Wreckage of downed U.S. Navy airplane. Captured U.S. pilot under guard by armed North Vietnamese sailor. Viet Cong firing machine guns at American aircraft. A transport plane hit by gunfire and burning in flight. Armed American soldiers running from a crashed helicopter. American MPs in a jeep pass a cyclist on city street. President Lyndon Baines Johnson; Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara; Secretary of State, Dean Rusk; U.S. Air Force General Curtis Lemay. Dean Rusk and Robert McNamara meeting with Vietnamese officials.Vietnamese man looking through periscopic binoculars. The North Vietnamese flag. Waterfront with factory on shore and Junks in the water. A manufacturing complex. Harvester in farm. Vietnamese school girls dancing in school yard. Vietnamese gun crew at an antiaircraft gun. Vietnamese Navy gun crew on deck of a gunboat. Vietcong preparing booby traps. Viet Cong escorting South Vietnamese prisoner. Vietnamese paratroops. Headlines of American newspapers saying U.S. officials urge raids against North Vietnam. Map showing U.S. attacks on Vietnam. Map highlights date 30th July 1964 and Tau Chien. U.S. aircraft carriers and task force underway at sea. Map highlights Hanoi and date 1st August 1964. Map highlights 2nd August 1964. Guns on ships fired by gun crew. Battleship underway at sea. Map highlights date 3rd August 1964. Map highlights Gulf of Tonkin and date 4th August 1964. Officials in a meeting. U.S. President Lyndon B Johnson speaks at mike. Men under a plane parked on airfield. U.S. carrier underway at sea. Map highlights date 5th August 1964. Aircraft takes off from carrier to attack North Vietnam. Vietcong fire on U.S. planes overhead. Machine guns fired. Men fire guns from North Vietnamese torpedo boat. Torpedo boats and American destroyers in fight.
Napalm and white phosphorus bombing by American forces during the Vietnam War. Smoke filled air over trees on riverside due to a bomb blast in the area by a U.S. A-1 Skyraider aircraft during the Vietnam War in Vietnam. A water body flowing between the trees, and huts nearby. A blast on the river side caused due to a bomb dropped by U.S. Army aircraft. Thick smoke rises and spreads over the area over the trees. Aerial view as aircraft passes low through smoke and near fire coming upward from explosion in target area. Several trees on both sides of the river.
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