United States aircraft carrier in South China Sea during the Vietnam War. Essex-class USS Hancock (CV/CVA-19) aircraft carrier sailing in the South China Sea. Inside the briefing room of the USS Hancock, Commander Warren H. Sells (Commander Air Wing 21) briefs the pilots prior to the Air Strike on North Vietnam. Commander C. BIRDWELL (Executive Officer of the VA-216) briefing pilots in ready room before an air strike. Commander Birdwell points to a diagram “VF-24 Checkertails”. Pilots listening to the briefing. A Douglas A-1H Skyraider and Vought F-8 Crusader coming in for arrested landing in the aircraft carrier. Pilot briefing recoveries of F8 and A4 aircraft and flight deck action. Pilot (Name: LCDR Rudy Miller) climbs the cockpit of Vought F-8 Crusader. Plane captain assists pilot before taxi. Aircraft label reads “LCDR Rudy Miller”. Pilot gives "thumbs up". Plane captain hands over helmet to pilot. Pilot wears helmet. Douglas A-1H Skyraider and Vought F-8 Crusader aircraft take off one by one from the aircraft carrier.
Chef rolling dough with rolling pin. Chef takes out a tray of bread from oven. Tray of freshly baked bread is placed in table to cool. Workers working at a construction site in South Vietnam. Workers levelling concrete and another uses a power float. Trucks and construction vehicles moving in rough, muddy roads. A Vietnamese man hammers a sign that reads “Fire Station”. Frames of a building under construction behind the man. A man squatting. American and Vietnamese workers working in construction site. Newly constructed houses. Man enters an inflatable tent. Workers inside an inflatable storage building. Hand with cigarette touches a blueprint. Vietnamese and United States soldiers building a Quonset hut during the Vietnam War.
United States Army doctor and medics treat an injured soldier’s leg in bed during the Vietnam War. The patient winces and reacts to pain. Doctor applies gauze on soldier’s leg. Military officials salute to a coffin draped with the American flag. Soldiers carry caskets of dead American soldiers, killled in action, into transport aircraft. Young United States soldiers board a plane. African American soldier assists another soldier reversing a motorized cart. Aircraft takes off. Bell UH-1 Iroquois Huey helicopter flying at sunset. Sunset in Vietnam.
United States Marine Corps trucks stranded on dirt road in rural Vietnam during the Vietnam War. United States Marines sitting on the back of a truck. Other trucks are carrying supplies and equipment. Gun truck and other U.S. military vehicles crossing a wooden bridge. Other USMC vehicles begin to move and cross the bridge one by one. Sign over gate reads “Esso Standard Eastern Inc.”. View of a dirt road as seen from a moving vehicle. Soldiers sitting on a parked truck are seen. Moving military trucks on the road.
South Vietnamese farmers spray rice field with pesticide before the U.S. Vietnam War. Farmers pound rice using a foot-powered rice pounder. Steam shovel bucket scoops rubble. Vietnamese miners strip mining coal. They push a cart filled with coal. A man extracts natural rubber from a tree. Workers at a latex processing facility. South Vietnamese women working at a textile factory with a large loom. United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower addresses the graduates at Gettysburg College in April 4, 1959. “We have learned, too, that the cost of defending freedom--of defending America--must be paid in many forms and in many places. They are assessed in all parts of the world--in Berlin, in Viet-Nam, in the Middle East--here at home.” President Eisenhower said. South Vietnamese men line up to enlist and gather their uniforms. Newly enlisted South Vietnamese soldiers climb into a truck for transport.
A U.S. Air Force aircraft hits targets along a canal in Toy Bien in Nam Phan Province during Vietnam War in Vietnam. Aerial view of the fields in Toy Bien in Nam Phan Province in Vietnam. Black smoke due to bomb explosions mushrooms into the air. White smoke in the nearby areas on the field. Napalm bombs, White Phosphorus bombs, and 20 mm ammunition being dropped on target areas along the side of the canal by U.S. Army aircraft. Smoke spreads over the bursts along the whole length of the canal. Fields on both sides of the canal. Smoke rises from napalm burst on the field.