Damage to field hospital destroyed from previous attacks at 903rd Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron in Khe Sanh during the Vietnam War. Damaged corrugated metal roofing. A hole in wooden floor. A United States Marines C-130 plane takes off from runway, behind piles of crated supplies. United States troops dig through rubble in Khe Sanh. Soldiers place sandbags to shield from attack.
United States Marines at Khe Sanh Marine camp in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. U.S. Marine snipers in a sandbagged bunker sight through rifles. A Marine looks through binoculars. He drinks water from a canteen. He passes the canteen to other sniper. The sniper drinks water.
United States Marines at Khe Sanh Marine camp in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. A U.S. Marine sniper behind sand bag mounds as he looks through binoculars. Another sniper comes out of a sandbagged bunker and the two snipers move along trenches to look out points. The Marines fire rifles. Concertina wire encircle the camp area. Snipers in a bunker as one of them sights through a gun and another looks through binoculars and points out.
United States Marines at Khe Sanh Marine camp in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. U.S. Marine snipers behind sand bag mounds as one of them sights through a gun and another looks through binoculars. Concertina wire around the camp area. A sniper loads a gun as he smokes a cigarette.
U.S. Marines of 1st Battalion, 26th Division, move through thick grass and climb up Hill 557, Khe Sanh, Vietnam. Arms include M-16 rifles and equipment includes PRC-25 back pack radio. U.S. Marines prepare a demolition charge of C-4 explosive, and insert fuse into the C-4 and place it along with other explosives at the base of a tree. Two Marines pull the pins on fuses of C-4, and smoke rises from the burning fuses. The resulting explosion destroys the tree. Marines return to the site with entrenching tool. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. Marines advance through a jungle in Khe Sanh, Vietnam. A Marine in foul weather gear, smoking a cigarette, prepares to pull the pin on a smoke grenade, to mark a landing zone for medivac. Green smoke rises. Helicopter in flight overhead. Marines carry wounded comrade to landing site, where helicopter has landed. Marines unload "C" rations from UH34D helicopter and place the wounded Marine aboard the helicopter. They help one ambulatory wounded Marine to board. As helicopter takes off, gunner with M-60 machine gun can be seen in open door. (Vietnam War period).