United States Vice President Richard Nixon visits a military training camp in Saigon, Vietnam. Vietnamese soldiers stand in as honor guards to welcome Vice President Nixon. Vice President Nixon watches South Vietnamese soldiers as they jump over wooden obstacles during a training session. Vice President Nixon speaks with South Vietnamese officials. South Vietnamese soldiers practice firing as the Vice President with other officers looks on. South Vietnamese soldiers in prone position while firing. Vietnamese soldier conveys a message over a wireless field telephone as Richard Nixon and other officials stand next to him.
United States Naval patrol bomber SP-2H patrol the coast in Saigon,Vietnam as a river in the background is seen winding into the sea. Bomber flies over inhabited areas and junks. Aerial view from cockpit. A crewman speaks over the mike. Aerial view of water and shoreline as bomber flies over three swift boats and Nha Trang, where naval advisory radio station is located. Smoke is seen rising from the area.
United States ambassador to South Vietnam Maxwell D. Taylor and other officials leave Montagnard Technical School. They visit a Vietnamese Catholic Girls School. Ambassador Taylor speaks to a Vietnamese girl and an American nun as photographers take pictures. Luman also speaks to the nun.
United States ambassador to South Vietnam Maxwell D. Taylor presents Commendation Medal to Captain Gerald Geringer, medical advisor, in a ceremony held under a parachute tent at 23rd Infantry Division headquarters. Ambassador Taylor introduced to 23rd Division staff officers. Luman talks to Colonel Brown.
UH-1 Huey helicopters of the U.S. Army First Aviation Brigade, approach and land in trail formation at Camp Holloway, Pleiku, Vietnam. Numerous other helicopters are seen at the airfield. Change of scene shows U.S. army troops of the 101st Airborne Division boarding the helicopters, which then lift off and depart, in a trail formation of a dozen or so, UH-1s. Many of the troops ride, with their legs dangling from the choppers.
Groups of U.S. soldiers, from 101st Airborne and 4th Infantry Divisions, walk toward helicopters of the 1st Aviation Brigade, at Camp Holloway, Pleiku, as they prepare to depart for an incursion into Cambodia, during the Vietnam war. Several arriving UH-1 Huey helicopters fly low past parked ones. Six are seen hovering in formation just a few feet over the field and then moving forward toward the runway. Troops walking toward their helicopters include one contingent carrying a large American flag. Some soldiers assemble in groups, placing their gear on the ground. They are dispatched to helicopters in orderly groups. The contingent with the flag has it furled as they climb aboard a UH-1.