Dump truck backs up to a tractor crane near mountain at Phan Rang rock crusher site. Crane shovel picks up a scoop of rock from mountainside and dumps it into truck. Large dump truck is filled with rock by crane shovel. Rock crusher in operation. Dust swirls around. Truck loaded with rock arrives at rock crusher site.
A United States C-130 plane lands on a dirt runway in a Khe Sanh airfield, part of 903rd Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron field hospital. A United States soldier stands ready with a ramp for the plane.
United States Air Force 903rd Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron troops carry a patient on a stretcher from the field hospital clinic. Other wounded who can walk are guided to the airplane. Aeromed squadron loads a marine or soldier patient onto a C-130 plane. Soldiers in Khe Sanh airfield. United States soldiers enter a C-130 plane from the cargo door.
The United States 1st Brigade Lancers of the 25th Infantry Division get off a U.S. Army CH-47 Chinook helicopter. They climb up the well bunkered Nui Ba Den Mountain also called 'The Black Lady Mountain'. Sign with 'Welcome to Nui Ba Den ' seen. Soldiers talk and relax. A soldier holds a cup in his hands. Another fills his cup from a container. Soldiers walk in a single file. CH-47 helicopter in flight overhead. Patrol moves downhill through dense foliage. Soldiers climb down rocks carefully. (Vietnam War period).
USO troupe singer, Sondra "Blinky" Williams entertains sailors aboard aircraft carrier USS Hancock, during the Vietnam War. Musician accompanist playing a flute. Blinky Willams performs with tambourine in hand. U.S. Marine stands guard, at parade rest, next to the stage stairs. Musicians with instruments play onstage.
George Rhodes,orchestra and cast rehearse for USO troupe show during Vietnam War. George Rhodes assembles musical notes papers on chair. Musicians play trumpets and other instruments. Drummer plays the drums. George Rhodes stands and gives instructions to the musicians. Musical note reads 'rock a bye ending'.