Saigon Vietnam Viet Nam Jade Emperor Temple pagoda with incense

01:19:08:00 Vietnam War footage. Army of the Republic of Viet Nam ARVN soldiers fighting the the guerrilla fighters of the Vietnam National Liberation Front VNAF or Vietcong. Various scenes of ARVN soldiers in combat and on patrol wading through rice paddies and through the jungle. Viet-cong prisoners captured by the ARVN soldiers. Several helicopters in low flight over flooded rice paddies of Vietnam. U.S. aircraft damaged and destroyed by Vietcong raid on U.S. airbase in Vietnam. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara holds news conference to tell of U.S. response to Vietcong attack on U.S air base in Vietnam by striking North Vietnam military facilities and supply routes used to infiltrate men and materials into South Vietnam. U.S. aircraft firing rockets and strafing ground targets in North Vietnam. 01:23:20:03 Piasecki H-21 Shawnee Troop transport helicopter landing and unloading ARVN soldiers. Camouflaged tanks used by ARVN soldiers in South Vietnam. At a news conference Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara explains why U.S. ground combat units troops will be deployed sent to South Vietnam. Build-up of U.S. ground forces in South Vietnam. American ground combat forces troops arriving in South Vietnam by plane, by ship, and by landing craft.

EXTERIOR VIET-NAM RESTAURANT

ORIG. B&W NEG 300' (FTG CKED 08/03) JOHN SCALI SU ON GOVERNMENT PROBLEM IN VIETNAM, MASSIVE STRIKE IN SAIGON. THROWS TO CHARLES ARNOT IN SIANGON.

00:00:00:00 B-ROLL crowd gathers at Viet Nam Veterans Memorial Wall. (0:00)/

Navigator work on documents aboard aircraft AC-47. Viet Nam Air Force officer and crewman attach lanyard wires to parachute flares. (Vietnam War period). Location: Vietnam Bien Hoa Air Base. Date: April 23, 1967.

South Vietnam chief of state Bao Dai appears before press in the French Riviera and people flee the bloody civil uprising in Saigon, Vietnam

Saigon Vietnam Viet Nam busy traffic from the famous Rex Hotel roof

Vietnam - Unedited Vietnam stock footage: Tactical Command. Close air support (CAS) Vietnam. U.S. aircraft bomb enemy positions in support of soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, 173rd Airborne under attack by Vietcong. Smoke rises from explosions after each pass of attacking aircraft. Soldier on litter with leg wound being treated by medics, another wounded soldier with bandages on arms. Wounded Commanding Officer uses radio while being treated. Two UH-1D's helicopters hovering in cloud of smoke and dust, Vietnam combat zone. Wounded soldier laying in field, two more wounded soldiers in shallow trench. Soldier holds field radio mouthpiece in one hand and metal rod to clear jammed M16 rifle in other hand. Soldier helps another soldier with foot wound to walk. U.S. soldiers load and fire 81mm mortar.

Why Viet-Nam film begins - opener - troops in combat, a Vietnamese baby cries, burning rubble...

VIET NAM VETS WILL GO BACK AND RIDE THEIR HOGS.Special for WJKS

00:00:00:00 Broll of the '88 Presidential Cigar Poll/ People vote at booth/ smoke cigars/ proceeds benefit Viet Nam Vets. (0:00)/

COVER FOOTAGE AND GROUND SHOTSOF THE VIETNAM VETERANS 'S MEMORIAL. VIET NAM

Colombo Plan meeting in Ottawa, Canada

French newspapers report end of Indochina war. One article says: Enough blood shed, Peace in Viet-Nam. Ho Chi Minh stands beside a French official in rural Vietnam. They both look at a document. Location: Vietnam. Date: May 1954.

Covers TET observance program by VNAF (Viet Nam Air Force) 33rd Wing and U.S. Air Force Advisory Team No. 1 in Tan Tru village, Vietnam. Vietnamese villagers gather. Arrival of USAF (United States Air Force) and VNAF (Viet Nam Air Force) personnel. A VNAF officer speaks from a podium. Hamlet chiefs receive gift boxes. Vietnamese soldiers carry boxes away from the distribution point and people lined up for food. (Vietnam War period). Location: Tan Tru Vietnam. Date: February 4, 1967.

00:00:00:00 Bob Hope weathers thick falling snow to speak at Viet Nam War Memorial. (0:00)/

PAUL HARDCASTLE - NINETEEN PAUL HARDCASTLE - NINETEEN (USES FOOTAGE OF VIET- NAM WAR; COLOR AND BLACK AND WHITE NEWS FOOTAGE)

USS Kitty Hawk - Coast Of Vietnam 1966 Unedited footage. LT. JG Greenmayer, A-4E Skyhawk pilot, preflight checking his aircraft prior to launch strike on North Viet Nam. LTJG climbing up the ladder towards cockpit. Pilot looking down into cockpit. Pilot in cockpit. Plane Captain up alongside the cockpit assisting the LTJG with his gear. LTJG donning his hard hat. Brown shirt working alongside the aircraft hooking up the gear for starting the A-4E. Brown shirt giving rev up signal to pilot, helicopter lifting off from carrier deck in BG. Pilot giving thumbs-up. Brown shirts around the aircraft. MS Flight deck area of Kitty Hawk (CV-63), an A-4E off to the right. LTJG in the aircraft. Aircraft on deck. Rear view of a brown shirt giving two fingers up. MS A-4E on flight deck. CU Wheel of the A-4E turning as it moves towards the catapult. CU Nose wheel moving in place on catapult. Swish pan to an aircraft being launched. A-4E being launched; A-6A Intruder in place on catapult, A-6 Intruder launched. A-4E Skyhawk comes in for a carrier landing. Excellent scene of aircraft with tail hook extended, tail hook catching a wire of the arresting gear as plane makes a carrier landing. A-4E plane takes a wave-off and flies over the deck with tail hook extended. Navy prop plane lands. A-4E coming in for a landing. LT. JG Greenmayer walking along the catwalk en route to his quarters after the strike mission. Chief of the squadron of VA-113; Ordnance man, with his leg hanging out of the cockpit, talking to someone on flight deck (SV). Two A-4Es on flight deck (OX). Two aviation ordnance men (AOs) wheeling a cart loaded with bombs under wing of an aircraft. CU Men loading the 250 1b. bombs under wing of aircraft. CU Bombs hanging under wing of aircraft