An officer in flak jacket looks through binoculars on USS Mansfield (DD-738) during Operation Sea Dragon in Vietnam. A man inside bridge talks on phone plotting some information. Captain Brooks W Setzer, Commanding Officer, Destroyer Division 152, donning his flak jacket. An officer looks through binoculars. Signalman uses a signal light to send a message to the USS Hanson (DD-832) in a distance. A second signalman looks through a telescope.
Opening scenes, photographed from the USS Mansfield (DD-728), shows a U.S. Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer bombarding the Vietnamese coast, during Operation Sea Dragon in the Vietnam War. Next, a sailor is seen looking through binoculars at the Mk 37 Director position above the bridge of the Mansfield. Closeup of the gun director. Next the Mansfield fires a salvo to port from one of her forward twin 8-inch guns. Smoke is seen above the shoreline. More views of the gun director punctuated by more salvos from the 8-inch guns. Closeup of gun barrels as they fire. Sailors on deck watching as smoke from firing drifts away. View forward from amidship, showing sailors looking over railing. A Browning .50 Caliber Machine Gun (M2) dominates foreground, where it is affixed to the ship railing. More salvos are fired from the Mansfield's forward guns. Shells strike the shore area.
Film opens showing covered body of fallen Viet Cong besides a dirt road. United States soldiers have carefully tied it to a jeep with which they cautiously move it forward along the edge of the road, causing the coverings to open, revealing a booby trap. Closeup of the booby trapped remains (undetonated). (Vietnam War period).
Inshore Fire Support Ship, USS Carronade (IFS-1), underway in waters of Vietnam, during Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase III. Sailor in combat gear leans over rail of USS Carronade (IFS-1) and makes notes in a pad. A U.S. O-1 spotter plane flies low past the ship and crewman waves to direct it. Shoreline is visible in background. Sailors perform maintenance on rocket launcher. Two sailors sand outside of barrel on 5 inch gun.
Inshore Fire Support Ship, the USS Carronade, firing rockets at night during the Vietnam War. Showers of sparks accompany the rocket firing. Deck of ship is illuminated by the light of rockets.
Showers of sparks fly as the USS Carronade (IFS-1) fires rockets during inshore fire support operations at night in the Vietnam War.
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