1st Battalion of 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team on Airmobile Tactical Exercise in Vung Tau, South Vietnam, during Vietnam War. Captain Raymond E Marshal and Vietcong officer interrogate a Vietcong prisoner in forest area. Soldier eats food from a can. Troops walk into forest area. Soldier looks into hut with his M-16 rifle.
1st Battalion of 173rd Airborne Brigade during an Airmobile Tactical Exercise in Vung Tau, South Vietnam. Troopers moving cautiously through narrow jungle trail. Next, a suspected Viet Cong (VC) is seen with hands raised as he shows identification to an American trooper, who also frisk searches him. Next, he is seen being interrogated by a Vietnamese officer, while being guarded by a trooper. View of troopers moving along the jungle path and ducking under fallen tree trunks. (Vietnam War period).
Vietnamese band plays outside Beach Comber club in Vung Tau in Vietnam. War weary soldiers of United States Army sit and enjoy the music being played. Vietnamese girl dancers perform to entertain the soldiers as one of the dancers from the audience walks up to the stage and join the dancers.
Vietnamese refugees board a ship to evacuate them from Vung Tau, South Vietnam in final days of the Vietnam war. The ship appears to be a naval vessel with the number "34" stenciled on her superstructure. The refugees board with all manner of belongings, such as mattresses, luggage, bicycles, and anything they could carry. They completely fill the deck of the ship.
U.S. Army aircraft in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. A U.S. Army attack aircraft OV-1 Mohawk taxis at Vung Tau Army Airfield. A crewman walks up to the cockpit area of the aircraft and speaks to the pilot. U.S. Army 1st Aviation Brigade insignia on the aircraft. A U.S. Army CH-47 Chinook helicopter in flight carrying a UH-1 Iroquois helicopter in a sling. An OV-1 Mohawk aircraft and a CH-47 Chinook helicopter taxiing on a runway. A few ground men beside the OV-1 Mohawk during a preflight inspection. Two men on the top of the aircraft checking the engines. The engines of the aircraft are started. The aircraft taxiing on the airfield.
Operation 'Jackstay' in Vung Tau, Vietnam. U.S. Navy ship USS Princeton (CV-37) underway in Dong Tranh River. A Deck Petty Officer gives a signal for a helicopter lift off. A man talks over a telephone behind him. A shoreline in the background. The officer gives signal for take-off. Crewmen on the flight deck. Helicopter UH -34D lands on the flight deck. Men rush up with a stretcher. Men offload wounded men on stretchers. A wounded man is carried on a stretcher by three other wounded men. The wounded men lowered on the elevator to the hangar bay level en route to the sick bay. Personnel stand around the wounded men. The elevator arrives to flight deck level. Seriously wounded men are taken back to helicopters for removal to shore facilities. Men arrive at the side of helicopters with stretchers. Armored jackets lying on the deck. (Vietnam War period).