Soldiers of 3rd Brigade of United States 25th Infantry Division under cover in a ditch in Vietnam. Explosion and smoke in jungle from jet air strikes. M-48 tanks move forward and soldiers fire from M-60 machine guns from the ditch. Soldiers follow the tanks as they pass through wrecked village. M-48 tanks knock over trees and soldiers walk past burning huts. (Vietnam War period).
Funeral of Apollo 1 Astronauts at Andrews Air Force Base. Flag-draped Caskets of Astronauts Virgil I. Grissom, Lieutenant Colonel, USAF and Lieutenant Commander Roger B. Chaffee, USN, are met by officials and honor guard upon arrival on C-135 airplane at Andrews Air Force Base (11 FSS/FSFR 1191 Menoher Drive JB Andrews, MD, United States 20762). People gather at the airbase to pay respect to the Astronauts. Other airplanes in the background. Operations building in the background. Officials stand. Airplane arrives at the airbase.
Flood relief operations being carried on in Vietnam. Aerial views of flooded villages in Mekong Delta area in Vietnam. Houses surrounded by water, fields filled with flood waters. Houses submerged in water. 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. (Vietnam War period).
First scene shows U.S. marines descending rope net ladder from side of the USS Pickaway (APA-222) in waters off Da Nang, South Vietnam. Next, marines of 2nd Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment are seen hitting the beach at Danang, from her Higgins boats on 7 July,1965. Scene shifts to U.S. Air Force C-130 aircraft carrying U.S. army troops who are photographed as they step from the aircraft. Trucks carrying some of these soldiers drive along a road in South Vietnam. Officer confer over tactical map of an area. Vietnamese civilian refugees are seen struggling to depart. Small Vietnamese children at a school or other institution, are photographed as they line up and wash themselves before eating a meal. Smallest children are seated in high chairs. President Johnson seen saying "I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle." Pictures of young American men and women are shown in various places and circumstances. A young couple. A man in cowboy hat. A factory worker. A young man laughing. a steel worker on an I beam during construction of a high rise building. Young people assembled at some sort of occasion. Images of Chinese Chairman, Mao Zedong, and Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh. Bow of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier cutting the water, and then broad view of entire ship, the USS Randolph (CV-15). (Note: the Randolph played no role in the Vietnam War.) Aircraft being catapulted from a carrier. USAF B-52 bombers dropping bombs in Arc Light missions over Vietnam. Bombs exploding on the ground. U.S. Marines operating a type of landing craft tracked. Troops deploying from a landing craft at a beach. American troops making their way through jungles. Scene reverts back to President Johnson still speaking (July 28, 1965).
Bombardment of Viet Cong concentration by U.S. Air Force aircraft around Bien Hoa during Vietnam War in Vietnam. Trees and fields, 6 miles Southwest of Bien Hoa Province with Viet Cong concentration. U.S. Air Force aircraft bombs the area. Flares in view along the sides of the canal. Smoke rises from a napalm blast in a bombed area among the trees. Several fields in the area.
The U.S. Air Force aircraft drops bombs over Viet Cong huts in Bien Hoa Province during Vietnam War in Vietnam. Several fields in the area in Bien Hoa Province. A water body flows between the fields. Few Viet Cong huts on fire. A U.S. Air Force A-1E aircraft piloted by Captain Markl drops a General-purpose bomb on the target area in the region. Black smoke rises from the blast and spreads in the region
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