United States Army soldiers read letters during mail call and look out from Fire Support Base West at Que Son Valley in Vietnam. CH-47 Chinook in flight. CH-47 hovers over hilltop and flies off. Helicopter lands. Soldiers sit on sandbag bunkers. Position overlooks the Que Son Valley. UH-1 Iroquois starts to come down and flies off. Soldiers read letters from home while standing and sitting around bunkers. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. Army soldiers of B Company, 196th Light Infantry Brigade making their way across a valley in Vietnam. They dismantle and flatten a wooden pole hut in an empty village that had been used by North Vietnamese NVA 2nd Regiment. Next, a U.S. soldier strikes a match and they set fire to roofs of empty huts and crushed huts to destroy them. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. Army soldiers of 196th Light Infantry Brigade in Vietnam during Vietnam War. Soldiers throw mats laden with rice on ground. Other soldiers watch. The soldiers empty out a partially destroyed pagoda or religious building Soldiers throw out mats from Pagoda. Soldier opens bag of rice and empties it on the ground. Soldiers inside the shelled pagoda break down the walls by hitting them with wooden beams, kicking and pushing with hands.
UC-123Bs of the U.S. Air Force 12th Air Commando Squadron (Ranch Hand) spraying defoliant Agent Orange, during Operation Tired Bill in Vietnam. UC-123Bs in flight over mountains and forests and then.descending in trail to target area. Ten UC-123Bs flying wing-to-wing in two waves, spraying defoliant agent orange over a ten mile strip between Con Thien and Gia Linh. An F4C can be seen briefly, high in distance, flying cover for the operation. (Vietnam War period).
An orientation film for United States Air Force personnel assigned to Southeast Asia. USAF personnel in Vietnam. An airman near a lookout tower. A hut, tent and bed nearby. A loud speaker fixed on a height. Sandbags near the tent. A danger sign on a barbed wire fence reads 'Cam Vao Bai Min Nguy Hiem - Mine Field Keep Out'. Hay along the wire fence. Sheds, a check post and a lookout tower around the field. (Vietnam War period).
An orientation film for United States Air Force personnel assigned to Southeast Asia. A USAF Base in Vietnam. An airman stands guard near sand bags on the air strip. U.S. aircraft parked in the background. Equipment and trolleys around the airplane. Enclosures on either side of the airstrip. The guard on duty with aircraft parked in the background. Aircraft with the cockpit hoods open. Airmen in a sandbag enclosure at a check post. A military jeep approaches, halts and passes. The guards with a rifle and a machine gun. A military jeep halts, the guards give the driver directions and the jeep moves on. The guards with their weapons. (Vietnam War period).