Viet Cong soldiers with machine gun, mortar in dugout canoes in Vietnam. Enemy plane flies over head. A soldier speaks over a hand radio in a boat. (Vietnam War period).
View from UH-1 helicopter flying over Camp Holloway in Vietnam highlands, during period U.S. troops are commencing their incursion into Cambodia, during the Vietnam War. Rough dirt paths and landing areas have been carved out of the earth and scrub brush landscape. Half a dozen UH-1s are parked on the site, as well as trucks and other vehicles. A huge section of the site is barren, except for a white wind sock. View from the ground of a UH-1 coming in to land. It sets down on a ramp of marsden matting, aka pierced steel planking (PSP), as a CH-47 chopper takes off in the background. Camera is photographing from another UH-1 that takes off, still focusing on the one that just arrived. A C-130 aircraft is on the runway in the background. The departing camera-helicopter shows troops and equipment on the bare earth below. Scene shifts to aerial views of sky, clouds, and mountainous terrain. Shifting to view of ground, another advance base is seen below. Another UH-1 is seen in the sky.The camera-helicopter passes over a dirt field where a low flying formation of helicopters is raising huge dust clouds. In the midst of this site there is a long hard surface (PSP) runway, that the camera-helicopter flies along, at altitude.Troops and equipment plus more helicopters are in the dirt areas beside the hard runway.
U.S. Army helicopters fly over an area of operation during the Vietnam War. Aerial views of river and nearby shores as Riverine force boats head towards the shore. Aerial views of Bell AH-1 Cobra attack helicopter named "Patricia Ann" flying beside camera helicopter. Boats anchored in swampy areas. Men leave boats to cross swampy field. Colored smoke seen rising from a marked area. Aerial views of Vietnam landscape and Huey Cobra helicopter.
United States Army soldiers of First Infantry Division wade in chest deep waters in jungle swamps of Vietnam. Soldiers cross waters and move to dry land. A soldier speaks over radio. Soldiers discover and remove punji sticks in swamps. (Vietnam War period).
United States Army Soldiers of First Infantry Division display captured weapons during operation activities in Vietnam. An officer places a lit match near mysterious rocks. The rock ignites when kept near the lit stick. Brown sacks seen in the background. (Vietnam War period).
Unites States Army soldiers of First Infantry Division carrying rifles on roadside during operation activities in Vietnam. Vietnamese vehicles pass soldiers at roadside in village. Soldiers move out across fields and over railroad tracks. (Vietnam War period).