Construction work at the 3rd Field Military Hospital in Saigon, Vietnam. A hospital building under construction. Three ambulances parked in the premises. Construction in progress. Traffic moving along busy street on the right. Several vehicles in the foreground. Vietnamese workers wearing typical conical hats (“Non la”) and several in hard hats, work within the foundation of the hospital under construction. A worker uses a hand saw to rip a 2 X 4 piece of wood. A Vietnamese worker smooths cement on a masonry wall. '3rd field hospital' written on a building. A U.S. Army sentry with a rifle guards the entrance. (Note: Expansion of the hospital, which included a modern emergency facility and surgery suite, among other things, was managed by U.S. contractor, Pacific Architects and Engineers. Most of the construction workers on the project were Vietnamese.) (Vietnam War period).
Ngo Dinh Diem's Nationalist troops fire during a short battle in Saigon, South Vietnam. Wounded natives. Captured weapons on display. Nationalist Vietnamese soldiers stand and march. Vietnamese Army soldiers and sailors marching in South Vietnam, Indochina.
U.S. Army 1st Infantry soldiers move inside the jungles in Lai Khe, South Vietnam. Soldiers sit in a group at the jungle. One of them demonstrates the use of wireless radio telephone sets. The other soldiers listen to him carefully. Views of the radio backpack unit. One soldier holds portable radio units and examines them. He holds them near the backpack unit. (Vietnam War period).
Port construction in South Vietnam. Activity seen. Cranes, derricks. American soldier stands on steel platform overlooking activity across the water. (Vietnam War period).
United States soldiers mark the date onto containers with a chalk and load it onto a ship in Vietnam. Cargo is brought near the ship by vehicles driven by United States soldiers. After marking the date cargo is loaded onto the ship with the help of a crane. A United States soldier reads a piece of paper. (Vietnam War period).
A huge wooden box unloads from the ship at Saigon port in Vietnam. Vietnamese help unload it and it is carried away on a vehicle driven by a Vietnamese driver. United States Army soldiers look on as they sit on wooden planks. A carrier vehicle unloads from the ship. United States soldiers and Vietnamese people help unload it. It is labeled as a shipment under the USAID program. The vehicle is carried away by tractors driven by Vietnamese and United States soldiers follow in a military jeep. (Vietnam War period).
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