Operation Cedar Falls in South Vietnam. United States soldiers of 1st infantry division examine captured Viet Cong weapons. A major General and Brigadier General James F. Hollingsworth, Assistant Commander, 1st Infantry Division, converse with a Lieutenant Colonel who holds some maps and charts. A machine gun on a tripod. A machine gun on tripod with a dead snake wrapped around it. Soldiers carry captured guns and place them in a helicopter. (Vietnam War period).
Operation Cedar Falls in South Vietnam. United States soldier of 1st infantry division digs into sandy soil above Viet Cong tunnel and removes munitions from it. Shells placed on ground. Soldier digs the ground with a spade. Other soldiers stand besides him and watch. Soldiers carry the captured munitions through the jungle. (Vietnam War period).
199th Light Infantry BDE during search and destroy operation in Vietnam. Three Vietcong suspects in front of a hut in village. Two boys walk past the hut. U.S. soldiers walk in line and lead Vietcong out of village along dike of rice paddies. Soldiers slog through deep mud in dense foliage. Soldiers stand at the shore of a river. Two Vietnamese stand in water with small boats. Four soldiers sit in boat, Vietnamese walk and push boat through water. Soldiers get off the shore across river. More soldiers cross river in boat. (Vietnam War period).
199th Light Infantry BDE during search and destroy operation in Vietnam. The soldiers walk on road through a village. They walk past water. Aerial view of UH-1D helicopters from pilots cabin. Rice paddies flooded with water. Soldiers walk through rice paddies. Helicopter in low flight. Soldiers get off from hovering UH-1D helicopter into flooded water of rice paddies. Silhouettes of soldiers walk in flooded paddies. Soldiers swim and bathe in channel and cross it. Some soldiers put baggage on rubber air mattresses and swim with it tied to a rope. Soldiers wear cloth, rest and dry out. Soldier checks and cleans his M-16rifle. Soldiers use rope to guide themselves across the deep water on their air mattresses. (Vietnam War period).
199th Light Infantry BDE during search and destroy operation in Vietnam. U.S. soldiers stand and sit by a hut. A soldier sits and holds cigarette in finger. Soldiers sit by hut. A soldier rests under tree. Field in the background. (Vietnam War period).
United States GI Combined Force soldiers during Cedar Falls Operation in Vietnam. Soldier fires machine gun. Another soldier pours oil on its barrel to cool it down. Soldiers walk searching through jungle to locate enemy supply and ammunition installations. Soldiers cross pond surrounded with wild foliage. Soldier in field, stand by a demolished hideout. Soldiers stand while a soldier talks on walkie talkie phone. A soldier hides behind tree. Bombing in jungle. (Vietnam War period).