United States planes and soldiers are rushed to Vietnam, responding to the Gulf of Tonkin crisis. U.S. Destroyer Maddox seen underway in the gulf of North Vietnam following reported skirmish with North Vietnamese torpedo boats (the "Maddox Incident.") Narrator indicates U.S. war planes from two carriers avenged the unwarranted Red communist assault with 64 sorties against North Vietnam. An airman boards a U.S. aircraft. Night view of the White House in Washington DC. President Lyndon Johnson addresses the American people in a midnight speech on August 4, 1964 describing U.S. actions in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident. Scenes of South Vietnamese women and children evacuees looking exhausted and scared beside nearby American helicopters. The President's speech continues, including, "We Americans know, although others appear to forget, the risks of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war." View of the United Nations building in New York and flags of various nations at the UN building. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson is seen making his report of the Gulf of Tonkin attacks to the UN Security Council and affirms U.S. position that it wants the people in Vietnam to be free of North Vietnamese intervention and agression. United States military advisors and U.S. Army soldiers board helicopters. A gunner aims at a target on the ground. Vietnamese troops accompany U.S. soldiers. South Vietnamese forces exit a helicopter and wade through water and rice paddies. U.S. soldiers advance in trucks with artillery. A Douglas TBD Devastator aircraft takes off armed with a torpedo. Another one lands at an airfield. A TBD plane, armed with a torpedo, taxis with wings folded. several TBD aircraft parked on a flight line. The President concludes his remarks referring to "firmness in the right" being indispensible for peace. (Vietnam War period).
United States 1st Cavalry Division soldiers during phase II of Operation Mosby in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Soldiers of United States 1st Cavalry division walk towards United States Army UH-1D helicopter on a field in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Soldiers board the helicopter at Ankhe, Vietnam. African American soldier stands beside the helicopter. Closeup view of a soldier inside the helicopter and then it lifts off. Pilot at controls of an airborne UH-1D helicopter.
Artistic depiction of United States Marine Corps (USMC) Marines in Vietnam. Soldiers of the 5th Marine Division march in at Camp Pendleton . A medical officer holding a mass inoculation gun. An officer wearing a helmet that reads “EMBARKATION”. The Marines load supplies into the back of a truck. Marines boarding the helicopter carrier USS Iwo Jima (LPH-2) bound for Vietnam. A Marine kisses his wife while holding his daughter before he leaves for Vietnam. Family members wave goodbye to departing Marines. A Marine kiss his daughter’s cheek. A drawing depicts Marines boarding a helicopter to Vietnam. Bell UH-1 Iroquois Huey helicopter shooting at enemy positions in flight. Boeing CH-46 helicopters landing in Vietnamese jungle. Artistic depiction of Marines fighting in the Vietnam War. Marines in fox hole. Marines stand and point their bayonets at wounded North Vietnamese abandoned on the battlefield. Navy corpsman treats wounded Vietnamese soldier. Body of dead Vietnamese soldier and recovered weapons gathered on the field.
Rear view of United States Army Bell UH-1 Iroquois “Huey” helicopters during the Vietnam War. U.S. Army helicopter pilot and soldier crew member in cockpit. South Vietnamese soldiers using a field phone. Republic F-105 Thunderchief fighter bombers in flight. Aerial bombing of Vietcong positions. An officer points to a map. Hand traces marked positions on the map. Vietnamese civilians evacuate from their homes. An injured civilian is taken on a helicopter. A Vietnamese child cries. Vietnamese children wash their hands and dries them with washcloths. A girl combs her hair. A boy lays a tablecloth and glass on the table. A girl holding a bowl of biscuits. A boy is given a biscuit and eats it. “I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle,” says United States President Lyndon B. Johnson during a news conference at the White House on July 28, 1965. Photographs of various young American men of different backgrounds, some with their girlfriends or working. A photograph of American teenagers or young adults. Communist Chinese leader Mao Zedong smiling. A portrait of North Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh over a flag of North Vietnam. View of a ship’s bow. The United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Wasp (CV-18) or USS Lexington (CV-16). A Douglas A-4 Skyhawk fighter jet takes off from aircraft carrier. A pair of bombers dropping bombs over Vietnam. Bombs falling from bomber. Aerial view of bombs exploding in North Vietnam. A USMC LVTP-5 amphibious armored personnel carrier. United States Marines land on beach head and moving in jungle. “This, then, my fellow Americans, is why we are in Vietnam.” President Johnson ends his speech.
American WAC (Women's Army Corps) Advisors and the Vietnam Women's Army Forces Corps in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. The Vietnam Women's Army Forces Corps standing in formation in front of a building. The corps saluting. The Vietnamese flag being hoisted on a flag pole in front of the building. Two corps securing the rope of the flag. View of the Women's Army Forces Corps standing in formation. Two American WAC Advisors, Major Kathleen I. Wilkes and Betty L. Adams, and a Vietnamese Women's Army Forces Corps officer saluting. The Vietnamese Women's Corps marking time. A vehicle in the background in front of a building. The corps marching in formation on the ground.
A documentary series titled 'The Big Picture' on Mission Montagnard of United States soldiers during the Vietnam War. An animated map showing North Vietnam and South Vietnam. An aerial view of the central highlands of Vietnam. These places have been infested by guerrilla forces. A village in the highlands. Tribal people stand outside their huts. Some people walk along a street. Men cut wood. U.S. soldiers stand outside a building and discuss amongst themselves. They are accompanied by Vietnamese special forces. The soldiers seated in a jeep pass along the street. Villagers gather outside their houses. The soldiers meet them. They give candies to children and talk to them. A medic drives a jeep. He opens a box of medicine and places it in the jeep.
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