463rd Airlift Operations in support of humanitarian and combat operations in South East Asia. Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam. Sign board reads 'Intelligence and Briefing'. Airmen attend class while instructor points at a map on wall. Students listen carefully to the instructor. (Vietnam War period).
French Forces fight the Communist forces in Vietnam, French Indo-China. Aircraft in flight. French soldiers descend on land through parachutes. A soldier watches them. Other soldiers erect bunkers on the land. Some of them stand along the barbed wire entanglements. An aircraft in flight. Bombarding on the field causes the smoke to rise. Soldiers look at the rifles and other ammunitions. Smoke from fire in the background as forces from Communist Vietnam and France battle.
United States Navy base Chu Lai in in Dung Quat Bay, Vietnam. Helicopters in flight in formation. Pilot seated in the cockpit. South Vietnamese Troops advance across the jungles. Troops loaded on jeeps. Helicopters in flight over jungles which conceal Viet Cong members. United States jet-powered bomber aircraft B-52 Stratofortress bomb on isolated hide-outs of Viet Cong. (Vietnam War period).
Operation 'Jackstay' in Vung Tau, Vietnam. U.S. Navy ship USS Princeton (CV-37) underway in Dong Tranh River. A Deck Petty Officer gives a signal for a helicopter lift off. A man talks over a telephone behind him. A shoreline in the background. The officer gives signal for take-off. Crewmen on the flight deck. Helicopter UH -34D lands on the flight deck. Men rush up with a stretcher. Men offload wounded men on stretchers. A wounded man is carried on a stretcher by three other wounded men. The wounded men lowered on the elevator to the hangar bay level en route to the sick bay. Personnel stand around the wounded men. The elevator arrives to flight deck level. Seriously wounded men are taken back to helicopters for removal to shore facilities. Men arrive at the side of helicopters with stretchers. Armored jackets lying on the deck. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. 3rd Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division base camp operations in Phu Bai near Hue, Vietnam, during the Vietnam War. Soldiers form a human chain as they unload sandbags from a truck. Tents in the background. Soldiers construct a sandbagged bunker. An American flag in the foreground. Soldiers fill and tie sandbags. (This camp was later named Camp Eagle in March 1969).
U.S. 3rd Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division base camp operations in Phu Bai near Hue, Vietnam, during the Vietnam War. Soldiers attach antenna to the rear of a jeep. An officer and soldiers look at a map spread out on hood of the jeep. Soldier takes compass readings. Officer and soldier get into jeep stacked with concertina wire and drive off. Soldiers unload concertina wire from keep. Soldiers carry roll of wire to perimeter and spread it out. (This camp was later named Camp Eagle in March 1969).
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