United States Air Force (USAF) Forward Air Controllers (FACs) in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. USAF and Vietnam Air Force (VNAF) FACs checking a map. USAF O-1F Bird Dog aircraft parked in the background. FAC Captain Lawrence Reed does preflight checking of the aircraft and smoke rockets. He boards the aircraft.
Aircraft AC-47 takes off from runway at Bein Hoa Air Base. AC-47 in flight. Camouflaged AC-47 parked at air base. Crewmen aboard AC-47. Pickup trailer loaded with parachute flares arrives. Trailer is detached from truck. Crewmen place parachute flares in flare rack aboard AC-47.
199th Light Infantry BDE during search and destroy operation in Vietnam. The soldiers walk on road through a village. They walk past water. Aerial view of UH-1D helicopters from pilots cabin. Rice paddies flooded with water. Soldiers walk through rice paddies. Helicopter in low flight. Soldiers get off from hovering UH-1D helicopter into flooded water of rice paddies. Silhouettes of soldiers walk in flooded paddies. Soldiers swim and bathe in channel and cross it. Some soldiers put baggage on rubber air mattresses and swim with it tied to a rope. Soldiers wear cloth, rest and dry out. Soldier checks and cleans his M-16rifle. Soldiers use rope to guide themselves across the deep water on their air mattresses. (Vietnam War period).
Tactical Communications, Operation Junction City at War Zone-C in South Vietnam. U.S. soldiers of 2nd Battalion, 173rd Airborne Brigade in action. Four U.S. UH-1D medical helicopters in flight. Helicopters land besides signal smoke. Soldiers board the helicopter and take off. Soldier at doorway of helicopter. Air to air view of helicopters. Smoke rises from terrain. Helicopter lands on strip. (Vietnam War period).
A U.S. Air Force aircraft drops bombs on target areas during the Vietnam War in Vietnam. White smoke rises over fields due to napalm bursts in Vietnam. A U.S. Air Force A-1E aircraft drops bombs over huts along the sides of the canal in Toy Bien in Nam Phan Province in Vietnam. Smoke rises from the bombed areas. The aircraft in flight.
United States Air Force (USAF) Forward Air Controllers (FACs) in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. A Vietnamese observer seated in a USAF O-1F Bird Dog aircraft. The wheel of the aircraft move. An FAC team is briefed in a forward area. ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam) troops firing in the background. A briefing map shows troops positions and suspected Viet Cong positions. A Province Chief briefs SSF and USAF personnel on a field. An O-1F aircraft circles overhead. ARVN troops firing in a battle line.
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