1910s; 1940s; 1950s; 1980s 220345 220345 220345 COL&B/W SD BURMA, USA, Scotland, Pacific 09:20:18 - 09:29:51 [Air Force Now - Birth and History of the Air Force - Part One]
Fast Montage USAF from pre WWII early flight to Vietnam through to NASA Space Program, rockets launched. Incl. NY Times Headline: Senators Oppose the League of Nations.
09:21:14 - 18Sept47 Truman signs re creation separate air force. First Air Force Chief of Staff Carl Spaatz 1970s and still 1940s.
June 82 Maxwell AFB gathering for Walk Through History (re military aviation)
WWI Sopwith camel fighter planes on ground. WWI planes out of hangar and takeoff. Squadron in flight. 1970s interview with pilot re Sopwith Camel.
1941: US pilots, explosions.
WWII Colour footage 305th Bomb Group over Scotland. 1970s interview with commander Curtis E. Lemay. Bombing mission (B/W). Cu propellors. Bombs dropped. Firefighters putting out fire.
Pacific fighter operations. Commander in Chief Japanese Navy Isoroku Yamamoto (who suggested attack on Pearl Harbor). P-38 being modified by ground crew. Japanese Air Force pilots. Interview with Commander who planned ambush on Yamamoto. Footage of ambush 18Apr43.
Paul Tibbets re dropping nuclear bomb on Hiroshima - 1940s and 1970s interviews. Hiroshima atomic bomb explosion. Enola Gay. Tibbets and others by Enola Gay B-29. Plane's bomb hatch opening seen from inside then below and bomb dropped. Atomic blast.
1945? Test pilot Frank Everest re speed of sound and Jaeger. Jaeger in X-1 plane (breaking altitude record).

1920 - 1945 LN 501-273
220772 220772 check B/W SIL Indochina Vietnam France Paris 07:09:09 - 07:17:14 Life of Ho Chi Minh Reel 2
Ho Chi Minh reading newspaper. African crowd sitting. African man makes speech to mixed race French? troops.
Recruiting Vietminh guerilla fighters? :Ho Chi Minh walking through jungle - instructing group
Ho Chi Minh visiting village - peasants in rice paddies run to Ho Chi Minh; Ho talking with old woman and others, with children. offered gifts. Ho washing feet in river, writing by hut; giving talk to small group of men; riding horse in jungle. Vietminh? soldiers applaud. Cascade. Still ceremony Vietminh troops in jungle.
Revolt? pre- 1945?: Vietnam flag w/ star on palace and big crowd (all stills)
07:12:57: 02Sep45: ceremony to proclaim Democratic Republic of Vietnam & Ho Chi Minh speech.
Ho at airport leaving for France and with French dignitaries - newspaper headlines re trip. Vietnam flag on French building; chateau (Versailles?); conference with French.
07:14:09 Hammer & sickle w/ Vietnamese writing. Ho speech (at Viet Communist Party HQ?) and audience applauds; cheering under hammer & sickle. Ho talks to people outdoors.
07:14:53: Sign in Vietnamese re Vietminh. Ho Chi Minh at meeting.
Farmers plough rice paddies.
French? man with moustache.
07:16:27 - 1920: Letter from Ho in China re sending Vietnamese children to be pioneers in Russia.
Newspaper article and other documents re Ho under pseudonym N'Guyen Ai Quoc
Very grainy and scratched.
Indochina

1920s - 1930s LN 501-273
220772 220772 check B/W SIL Indochina Vietnam England USA France London NYC Paris 07:00:08 - 07:08:46 Life of Ho Chi Minh Reel 1
Lotus flowers. Vietnamese landscapes. Village and rice paddies. Shrine with portrait. Stills and illustrations shows colonial rule? Stills illustrious Vietnamese / Chinese?
Ragged people load sacks. Refugees? with women and children cross river and at camp; digging grave for dead. Sign " Société Indochinoise de Plantation d'Hévéas".
Boat on raging sea; waves; ship arrives at port. European (French?) family eating. Sea breaks on rocks. Unloading ship. Crocodile or alligator. Colonial dignitaries, White man carried by Africans, still White gentlemen and ladies in porter chairs; African crowd around White man - White man hits one African. Africans hoeing. Vietnamese pulling heavy load. African arrested by whites at gunpoint.
London street scenes: silhouette Big Ben, London Bridge, open-topped double-decker bus.
NYC Harbour with Statue of Liberty. Still young Ho Chi Minh? Statue of Liberty and CU with men climbing on her face. Prison exteriors and cells. Skyscrapers. Hoboes on bench. Ku Klux Klan meeting. Still lynching (do not use).
07:07:25 Policemen twirling nightsticks. Mounted policemen beating up protesters or strikers; beating woman; wounded woman carried; protester led by policeman on horseback; (very good, violence)
Oil wells? World War One - soldiers parade, explosions, military convoy, planes. Eiffel Tower.
Very grainy and scratched.
Indochina

1930s - 1941 LN 504-009 220330 LN 504-009 LN 504-009 Sd Japan Philippines Pacific Malaya Singapore French Indochina Australia Dutch East Indies Germany Thailand USA Philippines Pacific Malaya Singapore French Indochina Australia Dutch East Indies 02:12:59 - 02:22:38 Enemy Japan, The: Dream of Empire -- Part Two
Map of Philippines. Street scenes - high angle shot of traffic, billboards, lumber & train of logs. Hemp drying, mining chromite & loading onto ship. Malaya & rubber tapping & drying. Tin mining Malaya. Loading US ship in Singapore docks; dry docks with British Naval ship. Dutch East Indies / Java and Sumatra oil drilling, storage, peeling bark & making drugs for malaria. Dutch naval bases. Australia & resources - street scenes and industry. Sheep farming and shearing. Docks - ships loaded.
13:17:10 March 1941 Jap foreign minister welcomed to Berlin. Japanese flags flying from Brandenburg Gate - motorcade. Met by Goering, Hitler & other VIPS. Group after meeting on balcony. French turning over bases to Japan in Indochina. Ships unloaded, troops advance into Indo-China; Road marker re Hanoi, 170 km. Japan at Thailand border. October 1941 General Hideki Tojo becomes Prime Minister. Cabinet poses. Kenoye removed. Japanese Navy & ships, planes over. Bombing of Pearl Harbor & ships burning.

1938 - 1960s LN 890-001 220303 220303 B/W Sd USA Vietnam Germany 05:00:13 - 05:11:23 Why Vietnam Part One
President Johnson LBJ at microphone talking about a letter from a woman in the Mid West asking Why Vietnam ? Montage vietnam war shots.
05:01:17 Munich 1938 - Hitler in open top car - Chamberlain arrives - Munich pact - Chamberlain speaking re Peace. Montage shots - bomb damaged buildings - Mussolini - Ethiopia - Haile Selassie at League of Nations - Anschluss - Korean war.
05:03:16 Johnson speaking re reasons for War and fight for freedom
05:04:28 Background to US involvement in Vietnam. Dien Bien Phu in what was French Indo China. Battle scenes and dropping supplies. 1954 Hanoi refugees - French leave Hanoi as communist forces move in. Geneva conference which divides Vietnam into North and South. Refugees fleeing South. US support to South Vietnam.
05:06:45 Map 1954 17th Parallel - mountain shots. North Vietnam, Ho Chi-Minh with children. South Vietnam - farming and agriculture - building homes - elections. US economic aid - tools and grain. Gathering in harvest in the South following land reforms. Scenic shots - junks - coastline
05:08:46 Manilla 1955 signing of South East Asia Collective Defence Treaty. South Vietnam - shots of house building - narration tells of subversive activities from Communist North. - Terrorist activities - NV guerilla warfare - burning buildings - dead bodies.
05:10:08 South Vietnam - spraying rice fields - rice processed. Open cast mining. Rubber plantation - latex processing. Textile factory.

1940s - 1950s - 1960s - 1971 220371 220371 220371 COL SD USA, GERMANY, VIETNAM BERLIN 23:29:46 - 23:33:37 [Air Force Now - USAF 30th Birthday]
(1940s footage intercuts with XCUs decorating cake.)
26Jul47 - Truman signs re creation separate air force.
1948 - Berlin Airlift: loading supplies. Landing. Children eating.
27Jun50 - announces Armed Forces to aid Korea (no sound)
20May51 - Captain James Jabara, first American Jet Ace shoots down enemy plane
15Aug57 - Nathan F. Twining sworn in by Eisenhower as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
17Dec57 - Atlas ICBM launched (Intercontinental ballistic missile)
06Feb59 - Titan ICBM launch.
03Jun59 - graduation USAF Academy
14Oct62 - USA reconnaissance aircraft finds proof of Russian missiles in Cuba. Man inspects photo with magnifying glass. Headlines re Khrushchev ordering missiles removal.
01Jul65 - USAF crews down two MIG-17 over North Vietnam
20Mar69 Apollo 11 launch
16Jul71 Jeanne M. Holme first USAF woman general officer
Finished 30th birthday cake.

1940s - 1970s LN 504-033 220368 LN 504-033 LN 504-033 COL SD USA, Africa, Vietnam 21:13:08 - 21:23:30 [Air Force Now - Global Airlift]
LS plane takeoff at dawn.
WW2: Supplies loaded into plane. Dutch sign for Red Cross. Refugee children. Arab man into plane. Supplies dropped on African village.
26 July 1947 Eisenhower signs re creation separate air force. First Air Force Chief of Staff Carl Spaatz 1970s and still 1940s.
Berlin June 1948 street scenes; Train barrier. Plane maintenance. William H. Tunner, Commander Berlin airlift in 1970s talks about operation. Activities on airfield during Berlin airlift. Control room. Radar screen.
1949? supplies loaded on planes including crates of milk. Planes flying low.
June 1950 Battle in South Korea. Troops into plane. Lieut. Gen. Joe Smith 1940s and interview re operations 1980s. Planes on airfield. Trucks out of plane. Troops into lane. Supplies storage. Wounded on stretcher evacuated by air.
General Howell Estes Military Airlift Command from 1964. C-141 in flight. trucks on airfield. Troops boarding transport to Vietnam. Aerial view Vietnam harbour. Cargo vessels in harbour. Vietnam airfield and cargo unloaded. Wounded into plane. Nurses with wounded in plane. Supplies dropped by parachute. Tanks loaded into C-5
Cargo plane flies across snowy mountain (good). Graph C-141 stretch. C-141 on ground. Cargo loaded into Pan Am plane (name visible). Tanker cargo aircrafts fly over mountain range. General speech to camera re challenges of the future for airlift.

1940s; 1950s; 1970s; 1980s LN 504-020 220344 LN 504-020 LN 504-020 COL SD South Pacific - USA - Korea - Vietnam - Spain 01:22:09 - 01:28:35 [Air Force Now - USO]
Brooke Shields presents and narrates.
1940s USO. Well-dressed people waving in stands at USO camp show. Troops going into theatre show in tent in Bougainville. Egyptian pyramid. Violinist. Entertainers. Audience laughing. Joe E. Brown on stage. Actresses? in queue with servicemen. Stills outdoors performances and audience. Dancer does silly cancan with soldier. Bob Hope in uniform with troops; on stage jokes with actress. Celebrities / stars visit military hospital. VJ Day in New York City.
08:23:55 Korean War - CU apprehensive soldier looks up. Brief battle shots. Marilyn Monroe out of car. Bob Hope on stage at various locations incl. Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
08:24:14 Vietnam War - Helicopter over jungle. Blonde woman on stage disco dancing with soldiers.
USO volunteers. Airport scenes. Battleships at harbour. Canoeing.
08:24:59 Concert with Loretta Lynn? talking to audience .
08:25:26 Rock star talks to woman in hospital bed (Base hospital in Spain) then sings patriotic song (bland 80s soft-rock) at concert "God bless the USA... I'm proud to be an American... 'Cos at least I know I'm free" - very emotional audience, cheering, CUs crying, shaking fists, singing along.
Troops entertainment.

1940s? 1950s? LN 501-273
220772 220772 check B/W SIL Indochina Vietnam 07:24:02 - 07:35:30 Life of Ho Chi Minh Reel 5
Ho Chi Minh climbs down ladder of hut; leads outdoors exercise class; volley ball - training camp?
At desk studying; typing; playing with children; fishing; serving food; eating outdoors at camp with others; Hilly landscapes and rain. Troops walk in field. Crowd of villagers run to welcome Ho. Communist meeting and speeches by various people, some women. Applause.
Ho Chi Minh at HQ? village and planning with his men. Infantry battle, firing and explosions - Vietnamese capture many prisoners and parade victoriously under Ho's gaze. - crowds cheer; celebration. Ceremonial dance with fans. Fireworks over city. Ho & others vote. Meeting at conference table.
Women with soldiers. Anti-Diem poster? Demonstrations. Ho gives flowers to schoolchildren. People off boat welcomed at dock.
Re modernisation of Vietnam: Ho through crowds waving and gives speech; cheering. People on sides of river. harvesting and ploughing with tractors. Automated factory production. Printing press. Bulldozers. Factory. Modern buildings. Cargo ship at dock and loading goods. Schoolyard with kids. Cycling in street. Students at university; women in anatomy class; students at microscopes; lecture halls; portraits Marx & Lenin & Ho under Hammer & sickle. People cheer at Ho Chi Minh shrine. Applauding. Ho hoes to plant tree. Child with watering can. Kids and babies play. Ho writes. Ho'sbedroom; Ho walks down stairs; waters plant; plays with kids and makes them sing.
Very grainy and scratched.
Indochina

1941 LN 501-013 LN 501-013 LN 501-013 B/W sd Japan China Vietnam Singapore Peiping Peking
Saigon 18:00:48 - 18:12:00 Japanese Newsreel
Japanese sailors march on parade ground
18:01:42 Captured American prisoners of war walk down Peiping (Peking) street - several captured GIs embark freight train. POWs seated in room - Group of captured US personnel come on deck - Commander sends message to the President saying they were captured on Wake Island by the Japanese and were being treated well (Japanese subtitles in vision). 18:03:26 Saigon Street scene - taping windows against blast damage - buildings sandbagged - digging trenches for air raid shelter. Front of British Embassy - car parked in front of Japanese official building, British ambassador enters building. British embassy, probably Japan - American embassy probably Japan. Newspaper headlines re Pearl Harbor (Japanese) Tojo (Japanese PM) makes speech. Head of Japanese War Information Centre makes speech. News bulletin - moving electric banner showing battle results of December 8th. Japanese naval and army officers announce battle results - press. 18:09:03 Map of Pacific area - Japanese troops in tropical area preparing for battle - Japanese tanks and armoured cars advance on road - coconut trees. 18:10:12 President Roosevelt and Churchill meeting on British Battleship Prince of Wales - British preparing for action in Singapore - unloading military equipment from ships - Indian troops - British troops and artillery on parade ground.

1942- 1944 LN 504-033 220433 LN 504-033 LN 504-033 B/W Sd Burma (Myanmar), India Rangoon, Mandalay, Rangar 22:01:08 - 22:11:25 The Stilwell Road, Part 1 of 3 (also called Ledo Road)
Story of the China-Burma Indian front WW2.
Aerial shot over mountains. Animated map land Burma Road to China. Aerial shots Burma Road. Chinese workers building Burma Road, hammering on rocks by mountain. Snowy mountain road with camels, then trucks carrying ammunition. Animated map, pans West to show land bridge of Iran, arrows point to battles of El Alamein and Stalingrad. Pan East to Asia, (animated map) Japanese destruction of Burma Road.
10:04:41 MacArthur and Admiral Nimitz. Troops marching. Japanese planes bombing. General Alexander. general Stilwell with Chinese troops looking at map.
Map of Asia shows Japanese offensive. Volunteer pilots Flying Tigers and RAF taking off. Japanese offensive on Rangoon, buildings bombed, top shot Burmese on top of moving train, palm trees burning. Rangoon after fall, destroyed buildings and empty streets, Buddha statues amidst rubble. Japanese troops on way to Mandalay - road sign Rangoon, Mandalay, Hanza.
10:06:19 Japanese offensive on Mandalay, India, very high aerial shots of city bombed, explosions on ground, Indian children running and man carrying child. Japanese war planes. Burning buildings. Indian people on overcrowded train. Animated map shows Japanese progress and cutting off of Burma Road.
10:06:58 Indian refugees on road and Alexander's' troops retreating.
Allied Demolition squads destroying equipment and supplies, running off to row boats, burning buildings behind. Burmese refugees on road, some with military uniforms. European or US soldiers retreating, crossing rivers and mud on way to India.
10:08:17 India, refugees and troops at camp, wounded carried on stretcher, Stilwell says they ought to go back and retake Burma.
Map India, Burma, China, Indochina and Thailand. Burma, Buddhist temples, street scenes, woman smoking shilom, tribal Giraffe woman. Aerial shot Burmese. Allied troops through Burmese forest with mules. Turbulent river with raft, mountains, Himalayas, wind storm, swamp. Soldiers hacking through jungle with machete. Stilwell and other study map. CBI (China-Burma-India) military badge. Allied Chinese troops, carried on plane. Training station at Rangar, India, cleaning guns, shooting practice, crawling on ground.

1944 SN 501-054 200549 200549 B/W SD Indochina 07:02:36 - 07:04:55 France Libre Actualities No. 8 1944
General LeClerc and other VIPs at ceremony. Vietnamese troops stading in front of huge cauldron, incense burner? Man speaking in French (out of sync} speaking of the need to rid Indochina of the Japanese. Montage brief shots Buddhist temple. Bridge spanning river. Roads and trains. Reservoir. Hydro-electric dam, natives work in paddy fields. Exterior Institut Pasteur, interior with scientists working. Cholera vaccine packed. Natives do calisthenics. Fr. Indochina troops parade, elephant at right of frame. General de Gaulle makes speech (out of sync). Audience listening including Vietnamese.

1945 220473 220473 220473 B/W SD China Sea
USA Washington DC 11:23:07 - 11:25:56 Admiral Halsey's Sweep In The China Sea
Animated map shows US movement towards Japanese bases in south of Indochina using storm clouds for cover. Swarms of planes on deck carrier. US bombers raid on Japanese vessels. Bombing around river. Plane crash-lands on carrier and pilot taken out.
Ship in sea storm near Formosa or China Crew on deck rescues wrecked plane - saves pilot and plane thrown overboard.
Halsey speech at Washington news conference (Sd) re activities in South China sea. Says there is no intention of bombing the imperial palace in Tokyo, but if it is bombed by mistake... "I hope they don't get that white horse. I want to ride him."

1945 220475 220475 220475
B/W SD Indochina 15:52:24 - 15:53:25 War's Wake Brings Tragedy of Internal Strife to Indochina
Group of men carrying sticks. Refugees cross rice paddies with oxen. MCUs refugee families in carts and on foot. House burning. Children riding oxen.
1947 LN 501-051 LN 501-051 LN 501-051 B/W Sd Japan Tokyo 13:11:00 - 13:21:24 Japanese War Crime Trials
Wide shot courtroom. Prosecutor asks if the attack on Pearl Harbor will go down in history as just another incident. Defendant asked if his advice was sought as a cabinet member. Prosecutor asks defendant if he was an advocate of peace including towards China. Defendant was minister of Education in October 1937. Questions re French Indochina - Japanese troops sent abroad and negotiations with Vichy government. Defendant asked whether there 1,600,000 Japanese troops in China.

1947 LN 501-292 220795 220795
B/W SD Indochina Hanoi & outskirts 14:00:06 - 14:02:20 Rebellion Flares In Indochina (After failed independence negotiations)
Outskirts of Hanoi - aerial views huts on fire. French troops firing guns and burning houses. French troops in jeeps and searching buildings in burning streets; firing machine-gun at barricade. Vietnamese wounded and corpses. Vietnamese anti-French graffiti.
General Leclerc and French Overseas Minister Marius Moutet drive across bridge unde fire and arrive at wrecked Pasteur Institute in Hanoi - wreckage inside incl. smashed bust of Pasteur and vandalised rooms. French find Japanese helmet as evidence of Japanese equipment being used by Vietnamese. Vietnamese clearing up street.
Outs from this item on 5477x5

1947 LN 501-292 220795 220795
B/W SIL Indochina 14:07:56 - 14:09:05 Indo-China Cities Freed
Vietnamese refugees flee ruined city carrying belongings. LS burning city. French soldiers arrive in truck to wrecked, sandbagged official-looking building or mansion; shake hands with other French troops.
Interior damaged building with skeletons. Middle-class Vietnamese woman and children on church doorstep with priest .

1947 LN 501-292 220795 220795
B/W SIL Indochina Hanoi?? 14:06:21 - 14:07:44 Indochina War Rages
French troops and tanks past burning houses. French carrying wounded. Corpse rolls out grotesquely from bush. Vietnamese corpses. Vietnamese crouching behind French tank. French soldiers with machine-gun on top of roof. Fire raging. Soldier drags Vietnamese corpse roughly. Wrecked tank. French arrest Vietcong - Vietnamese brutally handled with rope round neck and thrown into truck.

1947 SN 501-054 200549 200549 B/W SIL Indochina Hanoi 07:00:06 - 07:02:25 War in Indochina
Aerial views smoke rising. General Leclerc inspecting troops. Unid. civilian with arm in sling and French Overseas Minister Marius Moutet. Remains of bomb damaged building. Bodies lying in street. Jeep crossing bridge. Tracking shots down streets of Hanoi, buildings burning. Troops searching buildings. Troops surrounding building. Marius Moutet in armoured vehicle. Artillery. Bodies in jeep.

1948 LN 501-051 LN 501-051 LN 501-051 B/W Sd Japan Tokyo 13:00:15 - 13:10:58 Japanese War Crimes Trials (Tojo Defence)
Wide shots courtroom and observers. Prosecutor asking question, translator heard. Tojo in dock says there had been letters between Roosevelt and Emperor Hirohito re French Indochina. Tojo asked when troops first moved to Indochina - he says September 1940 - questions re Vichy government negotiations. Questions re American / Japanese proposals. Tojo reads from paper. Questions re proposals and diplomacy.

1948;1950s; 1970s; 1980s 220345 220345 220345 COL&B/W SD Germany, Korea, Vietnam, USA Berlin 09:29:51 - 09:39:19 [Air Force Now - Birth and History of the Air Force - Part Two]
1948 Berlin Blockade and airlift - closing down electricity. Sign 'Russian zone "Berlin street. Loading supplies into plane. Planes takeoff. Landing at Templehoff. 1970s testimonies of pilots. Distributing food.
09:31:09 Sept51: Headlines "N. Korea Reds Declare War". Air combat. Korean War veteran 1970s interview re battle and colour combat footage. Plane explosion.
Jets takeoff and in flight. F-101 and F-102. B-52
Feb54 - atom blast - re ICBM thermonuclear warheads. Bernie Schrieber. V2 Rocket.
X-15 rocket research aircraft dropping bomb and pilot describes mission; landing.
09.34.43 Vietnam - war planes over jungles. Dropping bombs. Ground combat. Explosions on ground. Firing machine-gun from helicopter. Machine-gun bullets. Rescued pilot lands at base. 1967 wife of captured pilot interviewed with kids. 1973 Return of Vietnam POWs "Operation Homecoming"; aboard aircraft; welcome committee.
1970s developments: F-15 . F-16. A-10. B-1. AWACS. C-141. C-5. KC-10. Rocket launch. Space satellite. Rocket reactors. Vice-commander of Space Command at Colorado Springs Richard Henry. Space and stars.
Brief montage from early flight to space rockets.

195? LN 501-295 220798 220798 B/W SIL Indochina 19:11:46 - 19:12:42 [Indochina Bombed by French]
Bomber planes take off and drop paratroopers. Bombs dropped and explosion on ground
American planes?

195? LN 501-295 220798 220798 B/W SIL Indochina? 19:08:32 - 19:09:12 [Indochina?]
Civilians lined up on roadside and given talk by French officer.
Building huts with wooden structure - village.

1950s LN 501-104 LN 501-104 LN 501-104 b/w SIL Indo-China ( Vietnam ) 01:17:25 - 01:19:34 Indo-China Talks
Press corp. Geep stopped at control post. Lines of Jeeps - one has Dien Bien Phu painted on. MPs outside building. Interiors, various VIPs - nameplates of Van Tien Dung and Colonel Lennuyeux. Conference in session. Poster Ho Chi Minh. Various officers and VIPs leaving meeting.

1950s - 1960s SN 803-016 220309 SN 803-016 b/w Sd Germany, USA, South East Asia Berlin, Washington D.C., South East Asia 23:18:50 - 23:22:21 The Road to the Wall end Part 3 of 3 (second half) James Cagney narrates
Anti-Communist propaganda film
Corpse, hammer and sickle superimposed.
Map of World, Title "Berlin, 1961".
CU pan up bricks and barbed wire of Berlin wall. Shots wall being built. Checkpoint. Contrast West Berlin affluence and East Berlin grimness. Refugees crossing from East to West through forest with suitcases.
Plane taking off. House with bricked up windows. Barbed wire. Narration says Communists want to put wall around "moon, stars, outer space", these are shown.
Krushchev at UN making menacing gestures. Kennedy speaking at UN. Vietnamese or other S.E. Asian families with children helped out of pickup truck by US military. US troops in combat. War ships, Americans showing skills to others. Washington Monument, Lincoln memorial, Lincoln quote superimposed.
Cold War

1950s LN 501-105 220539 LN 501-105 b/w SIL Vietnam ? 04:02:10 - 04:03:27 [French Navy Ships Arrive in Asia]
Large military ship in harbor. Maybe Vietnam. French & Asian men watch it come in. Several docking. Probably the Loire & Montcalm.

1950s ? LN 501-240 220708 220708 B/W SIL China ? Asia Indonesia ?
Thailand ?
05:38:43 - 05:48:37 Native Street in Asia
Back street in shanty town - washing hanging over street, children. Dragon dance watched by children. Kids playing drums.
05:40:02 Man arriving at house by bicycle. Two men lying in room prepare opium for smoking. Smoking pipe.
05:42:20 Fairly large cargo and sailing boats / junks on river. Cargo unloaded - street scene.
05:44:03 Customs men checking suitcases and bags.
05:44:36 Men lay in opium den smoking pipe. Pinups of American filmstars on wall. Drug taking paraphernalia.
05:45:15 Man prepares heroin fix. Mixing powder with liquid - stirring with syringe. CU Man injects himself in leg.
05:46:53 Busy dock area - freighter Rotti tying up. Few passengers disembarking including Europeans. Ship Kalimantan coming into port.

1950s LN 501-269
LN 501-269 LN 501-269 B/W Sd/Sil USA 16: 45:10 - 16:51:50 [Dulles Returns from NATO]
Plane on runway and Dulles out and shaking hands with various VIPs.
Press conference on airfield (Sd) - Dulles mentions going to report to President later same day. Says he feels a great deal has been accomplished.
"... we have seen great events: the entry of Germany into NATO; the actual beginning of Western European union; good talks about China and about Indochina; the signing of the Austrian State treaty; and the agreement of the Western powers upon an invitation to the Soviet Union for a meeting of the four heads of government... I return feeling this has been an eventful week and that much good work has been done."
White House inserts?: Photographs. Clock. Family pictures. Globe. Encyclopedia on shelf. paintings. Pelican sculpture. Portrait beardless Abraham Lincoln. Medals.
Photographers and newsreel cameramen setting up. Nixon, Byrnes & Unid. man.
Dulles reporting to Truman in Oval Office. Many other VIPs present. Exterior White House.

1950s LN 501-270
220768 220768 B/W SIL Indochina USA? 00:10:12 - 00:18:48 [French troops in Indochina - atomic shelter]
Troop carriers through mud , rivers and fields.
00:13:18 POV on river boat in Indochina? French troops on board. Landing on beach. French capture Vietminh in jungle.
00:16:25 Building domestic atomic shelter outside house. Geiger counter. Thick door and lock. Inside shelter.

1950s LN 501-272
220771 220771 B/W SIL Indochina Hanoi? Saigon? 06:23:54 - 06:25:04 [Indochina fighting - City Battle]
Battle action in Vietnamese city - Hanoi? Saigon?
Military vehicle past and French soldiers at barricade. Crowd of civilians in city running away from fire & ducking for cover. Troops crossing street. Man with his two children runs for cover. Fire raging behind 'Patisserie" building. Police van. Wounded civilians amidst smoke

1950s LN 501-294 220797 220797 B/W SIL Indochina Vinh-Yen 17:19:16 - 17:22:15 [French Secretary of State Jacquet in Indochina]
Jacquet visit seeking negotiations with Ho Chi Minh
Marc Jacquet with De Lattre de Tassigny and other Vietnamese and French at front in Vinh-Yen north of Hanoi. Barrier with sign "Vinh-Yen" lifted. Aerial Vin-Yenh camp with name painted on roof. Officer shows map to Jacquet. Jacquet and others visit Buddhist temple - kids on side of roads wave tiny flags. Crossing river. Tassigny talks with other officer.

1950s SN 503-001 220292 SN 503-001 B/W SIL Indo China French Indo China 02:20:55 - 02:24:00 French Indo China - Parachute drops etc.
Mass parachute drop - aircraft flies over - medic taking plaster off leg - more parachutes - wounded into helicopter - more parachues - officers - parachutes landing- digging trench - crossing river - troops run in undergrowth - firing automatic rifle - wounded native - crossing river - officers - all very short shots.

1950s? LN 501-273
220772 220772 check B/W SIL Indochina Vietnam Paris 07:17:34 - 07:23:41 Life of Ho Chi Minh Reel 4
Troops burning villages. Wounded Vietnamese out of hut. French registering child. Old women and children begging for help to camera. Dead soldier tumbles out of bush.
07:18:41 General de Castries released (re Dien Bien Phu?)
07:19:13 Dragon festival in mountain Kuomintang? village.
07:22:11 Headline "Le Paria" newspaper
07:22:40 Meeting in village. Letters to USSR in hand-written envelopes - correspondence with Soviets?
Headlines with photo Maurice Thorez? & French article from Communist newspaper re visits to Vietnam.
Very grainy and scratched.
Indochina

1951 LN 501-268
220770 220770 B/W SIL Indochina 05:14:50 - 05:21:45
Indo-China Newsreel #2,375 & 2,377
Newsreel #2,375:
(CONTEXT: Hanoi-Laichau Airlift: In the region North-East of Laichau in the Thai country, unidentified Chinese bands have crossed the Sino-Tonkinese frontier at Lao- Kay, and have moved southward. One of the columns has taken Phong-Tho and Tainh-Ho, and progressed towards Laichau. An airlift has been established between Hanoi and Laichau, to carry reinforcements, there is a plane every six (6) minutes.)
SHOTLIST: North African troops and equipment being loaded into planes (C-47s) at the Gialam Airfield at Hanoi. Troops seated in the planes. Planes being loaded and taxiing along Laichau Airfield. General Salan conversing with Deo-Van-Long, Chief of the Thai country. Moroccan troops moving off airfield, through village and towards an improvised camp. Planes taking off with herds of oxen on the Laichau airfield. Improvised campsite. Radio operator seated alongside his equipment.
05:17:03 NEWSREEL #2,377
Attack on Bai-Thao Post: Views of Bai-Thao, located 15 km from Sept- Pagodes and 8 km from Bentam. Fly infested corpses after the attack. Sign post saying "Bai-Thao". Officer interrogating prisoner. Winding river.
05:19:11 NEWSREEL #2,378:
(CONTEXT: Pacification of a Region Southeast of Phy-Ly: The operation takes place on an island, bordered on one side by the Red River, and on the other side by the old river bed of the Red River, called "Faux Canal" (False Canal). Vietminh bands traversed this island in going to Haiphong. (The island is occupied by Vietnamese forces.)
SHOTLIST:M-4 type tank standing on road. Partisans walk eight prisoners to the rear. Partisans walking along road. Troops in combat advancing through underbrush. Vietnamese "dukw" being pulled out of the water. Civilians organising for self-defense construct bamboo palisade. Masses of civilians at work on the Red River dam under the protection of troops. Partisans loading prisoners into jeep. Prisoners seated on the ground with their hands tied behind their backs. Catholic village in the background where they were captured.

1951 LN 501-268
220770 220770 B/W SIL Indochina 05:04:09 - 05:14:41 Indo-China Newsreel #2, 379 - 2, 380
19Apr51 - 22Apr51
Visit of General de Lattre de Tassigny and President Tran Van Nuu at Dong-Trieu and Vinh-Yen--
Children waving flags. Reconnaissance plane landing. Colonel Sizaire, victor of Mao-Khe, greets and welcomes General de Lattre and President Tran Van Nuu. Group standing at attention saluting and then reviewing troops and equipment.
(This section is very poor quality up to 05:05:14)
Troops passing review section and standing at attention on the field. Two small cabing planes landing. General and President greet arriving officers. President, General and staff inspect the troops. CU, Faces of the soldiers. General de Lattre, President Tran Van Nuu and staff greet Vietnamese and dignitaries.
Official party inspect school children and athletic societies participating in the review. Officials listen and watch children's band.
Troops and school children passing review area. Military band playing.
05:09:13 Interior scene of General de Lattre drinking a toast to S.M. Bao-Dai and to the Vietnamese Governor.
LCT type aircraft loaded with troops making its way up the canal and landing the men on the riverbank near the port of Coi-Co at the junction of the Song-Thai-Binh and the Bamboo canal. Soldiers leaving LCT, crossing open field and small canal. Truck being ferried across canal. Advance is held up by the Vietminh Command post and air support is requested. Soldiers digging in, firing machine guns and mortars. Farm house burning. F-6-F Hellcats and B-26s bombing and strafing enemy position. Soldiers in prone positions during the air attack. Wounded men being treated. Soldier searching and removing weapons from a dead comrade. 105mm Howitzers firing. Soldiers advancing and passing burning buildings. 400 Viet Minh prisoners surrounded by parachutists are taken to the Command Post. Vietnamese sentry standing guard. Wounded men being treated.

1951 LN 501-270
220768 220768 B/W SD USA Washington DC 00:30:31 - 00:37:39 French General Jean De Lattre de Tassigny Makes Statement On Indochina
General de Lattre speaks in microphone - false start - explains in broken English that he is glad to be in the USA invited by General Collins. The general explains that France is not still in Indochina to protect colonial interests but to help the natives build their own independent country. This is difficult as they are also fighting a war against the Communists. French officers advise and help the native officers. It is a battlefield similar to Korea. The general repeats the above in French. CU, the general says "We fight against the Communists for democracy and for freedom of the world."
00:35:01 He repeats the same in French.
Good Sound

1951 LN 501-270
220768 220768 B/W SD USA Washington DC 00:58:49 - 01:06:14 Visit of French General de Lattre de Tassigny to Washington DC
General de Lattre de Tassigny and his staff coming down ramp from plane. They assemble on field and salute. Guns fire salute. De Lattre and other French officers saluting.
01:00:03 General J Lawton Collins, Chief of Staff, with General de Lattre at microphone. Ambassador Henri Bonnet and French officers stand in BG General Collins makes a speech of greetings, saying that they know of General de Lattre's great fight in Indochina. General de Lattre answers in English, saying at the end that the French are engaged in a ruthless war against Communism in Indochina. De Lattre makes a statement in French for Voice of America radio. Collins and de Lattre as the latter makes she same speech in French that he made above in English.

1951 LN 501-292 220795 220795
B/W SD Indochina - Cambodia 14:20:54 - 14:21:54 News in Brief - French Assault on Cambodia-Indochina Border
French forces assault on Cambodia - Indochina border - Sea-Air-Land operation - beach landing and into Vietminh cave with weapons, radio installation and portraits of Ho-Chi-Minh. Refugees evacuated incl. two Buddhist monks.

1951 LN 501-292 220795 220795
B/W SD Indochina 14:09:19 - 14:10:42 Indo-China - Red-Held Hostages Returned to French
126 Vietnamese hostages carried across by Red Cross into French-held territory - some look ill or wounded. Clothes distribution and children fed.

1951 LN 501-292 220795 220795
B/W SD Indochina 14:41:25 - 14:43:00 Indo-China - French Repel Reds In Furious Battle
Paratroopers dropped in Indochina Delta; wading in water; firing guns; French troops advance under Vietminh fire. Firing machine-gun. Spot where De Lattre de Tassigny's son was killed. Vietnamese run looking scared - French pointing guns at them. Raising French flag. French troops return to fort in trucks.

1951 LN 501-292 220795 220795
B/W SD Indochina Saigon 14:25:17 - 14:26:03 News In Brief - US Carrier Delivers Planes to French in Indochina
American aircraft carrier to saigon, Vietnam, to deliver US planes to French. Planes wrapped up on carrier - unloaded and driven through streets of Saigon as people watch

1952 LN 501-237
LN 501-237 LN 501-237 B/W SD USA 17:29:12 - 17:43:35 Longines Chronoscope with Michael (Mike) Mansfield
TELEVISION INTERVIEW: CBS News corrrespondents Larry Leseur and Bill Costello talk with Hon. Mike Mansfield, State Senator from Montana. Sentaor Mansfield talks re Foreign Policy in the Pacific, Formosa, Chinese Communists. Says if Chinese launch attack on islands off the mainland then there will be war. Talks of allied forces in South East Asia. Says that the United States has given recognition to Red China by asking UN to help in obtaining ceasefire in Formosa. Speaks re South Vietnam and the need to protect it against Communism.
17:41:07 - Sponsors advertisement for Longines watches.

1952 LN 501-270
220768 220768 B/W SD France Paris 00:37:52 - 00:48:01 NATO Conference (Press Conferences) Palais de Chaillot, Paris, France
Press conference held by Anthony Eden, Great Britain Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of Defense Earl Alexander of Tunis.
Eden speaks first and mentions the solemn problems confronting the group, which they will have to find a solution for. He mentions helping out with materials and supplies. If the British do well in Malaya, he says, it will react favourably in Indochina. Alexander then makes a statement about this being the first time he has appeared here, that he is favourably impressed, and that all the meetings are held in a friendly and co-operative spirit. At the beginning of his talk he mentions that he joins with Eden in paying tribute to Lord Ismay and members of the Secretariat.
Good sound.
00:45:02 Silent: Eden, Alexander walk into conference hall, take their places. Various cut-ins of the correspondents seated in the hall.

1952 LN 501-292 220795 220795
B/W SD Algeria
Indochina Saigon 15:16:31 - 15:18:07 Indo-China - French Repulse Red Attack On Hanoi
French Foreign legion trained at Algiers - parachuting.
Actual fighting in Indochina - wounded on stretchers. US planes napalm jungle. Dead Chinese volunteers. Aftermath terrorist bombing in Saigon - blood on steps and bloody Vietnamese corpse.

1952 LN 501-292 220795 220795
B/W SD Indochina Delta Region 14:57:15 - 14:57:41 News In Brief - Indochina Fighting
Indochina fighting in rice bowl region. Firing artillery. Wounded. Dying French soldier. Vietnamese fighting alongside French.

1952 LN 501-292 220795 220795
B/W SD Indochina Hanoi Delta 15:22:003 - 15:23:41 Indo-China - Offensive Mops Up Reds In Rice Bowl
Indochina French troops firing guns. American planes drop bombs. Vietnamese with white flag bow to camera. Wounded children. Vietnamese prisoners given cigarettes. French troops through rice paddies. Refugees on road; old man bows to camera.

1953 LN 501-251 220747 220747 B/W SD French Indochina 09:12:06 - 09:12:46 News in Brief - Indochina
French colonial troops moving across desert toward Hue - sand blowing. Tanks and military vehicles across sand. Soldiers walking over desert. Soldier firing machine gun from vehicle. Soldier drinking from water bottle

1953 LN 501-293 220796 220796
B/W SD Indochina 16:01:28 - 16:02:25 Indo-China - French Strike Massive Blow In Fall Offensive
French troops firing guns in North Vietnam. Wounded carried on stretcher in rice paddy. Spike trap. Tank through field; troops in rice paddy.

1953? LN 501-045 LN 501-045 LN 501-045 B/W SIL Vietnam ? Asia 06:09:01 - 06:14:24 Nixon visits Asia. Guard of Honour at airport as plane lands. Richard Nixon and wife Pat out of plane and greeted. Ceremonial outside building - Nixon in front of USIS microphone - People assembled with banners, one has Saigon ? - Nixon on walkabout with civilians, receives flowers. Motorcade with outriders arrives at government building. Party stands for anthems? - interior - speeches (MOS). Exterior more speeches - crowds with banners. Military band march past - VIPs watch and wave to crowd.

1953? LN 501-269
LN 501-269 LN 501-269 B/W Sd/Sil Japan 16:13:17 - 16:18:37 [Nixon Remarks at Japanese Luncheon]
- re threat of Communism for Japan
Pat Nixon in crowd.
Nixon at mic. Thanks delegates for attending lunch etc. then cuts into speech: "... there is only one threat to the peace of the world today... the international Communist movement with its power centre in the Soviet Union... If there were no Communist threat there would have been no war in Korea.... there would be no war in Indochina today... there would be no war in Malaya today... the nations of the world could embark on a program of disarmament.... If we want peace... we must remain militarily stronger" .
Says this administration is doing more for military strength than the previous.
"If the rest of Asia falls under Communist domination, Japan also will fall.... if Japan desires to be free ... it is essential that they work with the free nations...

1954 LN 501-111 220540 220540 b/w Sd USA Latin America Thailand Germany England Japan Vietnam Iran Malaya Greece London Saigon Tokyo Washington Salonika Boston 16:05:30 - 16:14:50 America Presents America - Work of the USIA- Reel 3
Latin America - communist agitator at outdoor meeting. Mobile unit of USIA takes film show on road to counter the work of the communists. People at screening.
16:06:12 Thailand - people riding elephant - planning meetings with USIS officers and Thais. USIA officer addressing locals.
16:06:50 Germany - USIA secretary with German couple. In Saigon, USIS English classes. In London - man carries film from taxi into Broadcasting House. In Iran - plane takes off, aerial views of American technical assistance project. In Tokyo, private publishing company translating American book. Other USIS activites - theatre - Porgy and Bess on tour. Audience applaud. Orchestra - Symphony of the Air performs in Tokyo. William Faulkner, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature talking with Japanese men on cultural / educational visit. Jesse Owens in Malaya
16:09:02 Exhibit in Washington re Peoples Capitalism. Overseas trade fairs - motor show. International Trade Fair in Salonika in Greece. Greek man using electric razor. People looking at displays. King Paul and Queen Frederika of Greece visit fair. Visitors looking at themselves on television.
16:10:17 Campaign re disarmament - Mutual Inspection for peace - The Open Skies Proposal.
16:10:44 Map showing Iron Curtain and VOA tranmitters. USIA Coast Guard Cutter Courier acting as floating radio relay station - transmitters - aerials - radios with people listening - radio jamming by Russians.
16:12:30 Cover of America Illustrated, magazine published by USIA - pages turned. American magazines on racks. Two Japanes ? women looking at small library of American books - Care shelf.
16:13:30 Cultural City Salutes - signs - City of Boston salutes Rome. Boston shops. Montage - Statue of Liberty - Atomic explosion - US troops marching - State Department - Voice of America broadcasting in various languages.
Cold War

1954 LN 501-270
220768 220768 B/W SIL USA Hickam AFB, Oahu, Hawaii 00:48:13 - 00:58:33 French Troops Returning To France From Indochina, Hickam AFB, Hawaii
Red Cross hostesses serve refreshments to Frenchmen wearing lei. Plane brings in wounded. Frenchmen, including the wounded, are greeted by hula girls and decorated with leis as they come off plane. One man is very happy and dances with a group of hula girls. American officers and an official greet the man. Litter cases are put into ambo-bus. An old woman on the field talks to Frenchman in bus. Buses with the Frenchmen aboard leave the airfield.

1954 LN 501-277
LN 501-277 220778 LN 501-277 B/W SD Indochina 01:36:17 - 01:37:47 Indo-China: Reds Reds go All Out As Geneva Parley Nears
- re Vietminh attempts to block supplies to Dien Bien Phu on Hanoi- Haiphong Road .
Vietnamese troops on road; tanks; Vietnamese with metal detector looking for and exploding mines on Hanoi - Haiphong road. Wrecked cart on roadside and military vehicle past. Wounded Vietnamese. Repairs to railway line and wrecked train from Vietminh attack. Locomotive past.

1954 LN 501-293 220796 220796
B/W SD Indochina Dien Bien Phu 16:13:55 - 16:14:47 Indo-China - Reds, French Locked In Crucial Battle
Dien Bien Phu - good battle footage. French troops of Foreign Legion in woods; wounded bandaged;
Vietnamese prisoners searched.

1954 SN 901-004 220293 220293 B/W SIL Indo China USA French Indo China 12:22:32 - 12:23:26 Indo-China Truce Hopes on Rise Despite Fury of War
Troops down road - explosions - troops running - devastated buildings - ruins - Natives running - military trucks on fire - troops and equipment down road - body of dead child on roadside.
12:23:08 Mendes-France out of plane - meets with Secretary Dulles.

1954? LN 501-274
220773 220773 B/W SIL Indochina 08:07:24 - 08:12:02 [Indochina Paratroops]
Parachute drop. French paratroopers on ground and battle action. Wounded evacuated by helicopter. Troops advance through jungle. Bulldozing jungle.

1958 - 1980 220367 220367 220367 col Sd USA Vietnam New York Farmingdale. 20:29:15 - 20:33:55 Air Force Now - USAF News Review No 20 - USAF Gets F-105 - Thunderchief
May 27th 1958 - Republic Aviation plant in Farmingdale New York. Ceremony as new fighter plane rolled out on to tarmac. Fighter plane which can carry nuclear bomb in internal bomb bays. Bomb loaded. Aircraft takes off.
20:30:00 Crashed F-105s
20:30:23 Maintenace engineer riding on back of truck says F-105s were unreliable. Fighter flies overhead. Fighter taking off - shots from rear of jet engine. Side on view take off. Line of Planes taxi on runway. Aircraft in flight. Flak. Dogfight with Migs. Bombs dropping - explosions - good combat shots. F-105 flying in formation.

1959 - 1960s LN 890-001 220303 220303 B/W Sd USA Vietnam 05:11:24 - 05:24:34 Why Vietnam Part Two
1959 Gettysburg College - Eisenhower (Ike) on the importance of defending freedom part over shots of US handing out aid in South Vietnam.
1960 Troops in S.Vietnam Railway line blown up by NV guerillas. Machine guns fired from SV troop train . Various war shots.
1961 Air Force One on tarmac. American aid to SV - machinery - military - USAF training South Vietnamese.
US soldier training in use of weapons - speaks Vietnamese. Various other sequences showing US
"advisors" and South Vietnamese troops. North Vietnamese guerillas under arrest
05:15:02 US advisor teams working in clinics and hospitals. American equipment and troops into Vietnam. Helicopters - South Vietnamese troops on counter attack. Wounded American soldier stretchered to coptor.
05:16:58 South vietnamese combat training - boats and landings. Jungle fighting. Explosion. Wounded SV. South Vietnamese soldier prays at shrine.
05:18:00 1964 President Johnson LBJ speech re renewed hostile action of the North Vietnamese and the Gulf of Tonkin. US naval aircraft carrier. USAF bomb North Vietnam. August - McNamara says US seeks no wider war. US troops with captured Vietcong arms. Chinese markings on warheads. Ho Chi Minh seated at table. US politician speaking re efforts to bring Vietnam to conference table and rejections by Hanoi and Peking.
President Johnson re US do not seek the destruction of any government South Vietnam must have democratic rights. We will not surrender.

1960s - 1970s ? 220487 220487 220487 Footage Farm col sd USA 03:49:06 - 04:03:22 The View From Mr Bain's Porch - Part 1 of 2
About rural community trying to survive economic changes.
Flowers, pan up to windswept field, someone throws a ball. Church. Grain plant. Field. LS high angle tiny village, title.
Old man's voice over says this is the best community he's ever lived in.
very old man (Mr. Bain) in chequered shirt and hat sits on front porch and describes town when he moved in in 1901. Field. Barn. Little country road with pickup truck. All idyllic.
03:50:41 At old fashioned local grocery store / shop, little girls buy sweets at counter from large lady, her husband in back.
03:51:12 Older man (school headmaster) CU interview says community is friendly, helpful like in the old days. Younger woman doing dishes says people care for each other, says all her family lives close to each other. View through her window of river.
03:52:04 Man with blue helmet says says good fishing, sports, biking in area. Other man in helmet says no trouble like in big cities like drugs.
Views of area, farms, mud roads, cows, tractor. Cow in pad, farmer washes her udders and milks her with machine as he talks of his work in voice over.
03:54:18 Idyllic farm, flock of sheep in field, sheep dog. Sheep in pad. Sheep farmer talks of his job in VO, how many have left the community. Shears sheep.
03:56:00: CU Mr Bain, very wrinkled talks of changes in community and farming practice.
Lumberjack workers at work with helmets amidst large area full of felled trees, they pull tree trunks out and forklift them. Red truck with tree trunk on top. lumberjack drives. Lumberjack voice over talks of work conditions. Says son in Vietnam war.
04:00:54 Car passes in front of houses. Mr Bain on porch talks of jobs.
04.01.34 Man interviewed CU talks of sawmills, change in economy.
04.01.52: Older man in white shirt with huge stuffed moose head and other animal heads in lounge talks of unemployment.
04.02.31 Sawmill, CUs wood and machinery.
Older man in yellow shirt says hard to get jobs.
Beautiful colour. Rural Americana

1960s - 1970s ? 220487 220487 220487 Footage Farm col sd USA 04:03:22 - 04:13:14 The View From Mr Bain's Porch - Part 2 of 2
About rural community trying to survive economic changes.
04:03:22 House by roadside and signs. Sign 'Home of tigers" with drawing if tiger, track back to reveal indoors basketball court. Ball in basket.
04:03:59 School classroom. Intercut with interview headmaster. Female teacher with bouffant hairdo at desk, voice over says children have many chores. CUs kids. Lovely shot children in classroom lined up with teacher at back. Record player. Schoolchildren on floor drawing.
04:06:53 School bus on sunny road past town. Headmaster driving. Kids out of bus, Bus past Petrol station / mini market, hoots.
04:07:32 Grocery store, sign on shelves "The Hornadays - Elver - Nancy". Pull back to shopkeeper in chequered shirt and overalls, shopkeepers couple talk re (Vietnam) war costing taxes and not benefiting country, sons in army, no jobs for them when they come back. Talk of people demonstrating for welfare, they don't understand it.
04:11:10 Dog yawns. Cow grazes. Beautiful tree. Barn.
Mr Bain says community is self-sufficient. Cut to fields, road. Old Mr Bain says will be 87 in July and went fishing last night.
Beautiful colour. Rural Americana

1960s late or early 1970s LN 504-011 220488 LN 504-011 LN 504-011 COL SD Vietnam
15:01:00 - 15:08:57 The Unique War - Three reels - Reel 1
re American helping ordinary Vietnamese in Vietnam War.
Narrated by Commander Glenn Ford, USNR - Dir. For Armed Forces information & education Dept of Defense
Map South Vietnam. MCUs soldiers; sailor; marine; signalman; Korean troops disembarking off ship; Australian soldier. Officer reads out letter from commanding officer to troops urging good behaviour towards Vietnamese. Various shots soldiers at attention.
06:17:55 Troops off truck. Briefing in class; out of helicopter. POV from plane. Vietnam landscape and jungle. LS village. Villagers.
Map shows battle line movements.
06:19:29 B/W destroyed town.
COL: GIs on ship w/ guns. Search carried out by Vietnamese on fishing boat. Troops rush out of helicopter. Vietnamese farm girl with cows. Child carrying lamp. Rice paddy by village - village scenes daily life: laundry, cleaning outside hut, kid killing snake, cooking , pulling water from well, kindling fire in hut, women chatting; selling vegetables.
GIs out of transport plane; strafing jungle; dropping bombs and explosions in jungle. Napalm. Dead or wounded Vietnamese tended by Americans after terrorist attack. Burning city.

1960s 220346 220346 220346 col Sd Vietnam Tan Son Nhut Mekong Delta 10:06:36 - 10:10:00 Air Force Now - Project Warrior - Vietnam
Map showing Tan Son Nhut. AC-47 - armed Gooney Bird take off and in flight - firing mini guns - F-100 strafe ground. B-57 Canberra in flight - bomb explosion.

1960s LN 890-001 220303 220303 B/W Sd USA Vietnam 05:24:35 - 05:31:18 Why Vietnam Part Three
1964 - Destroyed American air bases and troop installations. Aftermath of bomb at American Embassy in Saigon - ambulances . US Helicoptors - US troops firing from coptor. Wounded US servicemen in hospital. Lines of coffins covered with Stars and Stripes. Various shots vietnamese peasants - faces.
05.26.30 American troopship - soldiers disembarking. Combat units of US Marine Corp arrive Vietnam - out of landing craft. Army combat units arriving by plane. Military trucks - helicoptors - fighter planes. Planning meeting. Civilian casualities. South Vietnamese children in nursery school, washing hands and having meal.
President Johnson saying he doesnt find it easy to send young men into battle over stills of American youth. Mao Tse Tung and poster Ho Chi Minh.
05.29.30 prow of US naval ship through water. US Air Craft Carrier - fighters take off. B-52s dropping bombs. Tank - marines landing - troops in jungle. LBJ speaking re Why we are in Vietnam

1961 SN 803-013 220310 SN 803-013 B/W Sd South Vietnam, Formosa, Philippines Manilla 12:28:44 - 12:29:35 News In Brief - LBJ in Far East
Vice President Johnson leaves plane at South Vietnam or Formosa. In Manila LBJ in open top car down streets lines with cheering crowds. Interior Johnson shakes hands with President Garcia ? .
Cold War

1962 LN 501-219 220787 220787 COL SIL South Vietnam
03:35:49 - 03:44:38 Selected Scenes Southeast Asia - South Vietnam
CU, sign in Vietnamese tree outside compound. Tilt-up large tree with house in it. A ladder attached to trunk of tree (lookout post). LS, native soldier climbing ladder and entering house. US soldier interrogating native through native interpreter.
01:37:20 American Special Forces soldiers being briefed in front of map. Soldiers leave after briefing. CU, American soldier fires .45 cal pistol into the air. CUs, natives step up to table and are questioned by another local.
01:38:51 Natives searching prisoner outside building. MS, natives carrying rifles entering compound.
01:30:29 Native women weaving cloth on looms. Huts.
01:40:07 Native receiving rifle aiming and rifle assembly instructions from American military. Local livestock, pig and chickens.
01:41:40 Native troops in formation, are inspected by US soldier. Patrol leaving compound with an American soldier.
01:43:10 Patrol moving through jungle. Native troops marching. Natives being issued canteens and other equipment. NOTE: The American soldiers are Special Forces troops.

1962 LN 501-219 220787 220787 COL SIL South Vietnam
Saigon 03:44:50 - 03:52:44 Selected Scenes Southeast Asia - South Vietnam
MCUs, American soldier at map during briefing. American soldier talking to group of native soldiers. CUs, native soldiers. Rifle training.
01:48:23 Native patrol with an American soldier walking along jungle path.
01:49:07 Freighter at dock in Saigon. Armed hospital navy ship moving across Saigon River. Native boats moving up river. Scenic shots
Note: American soldiers are Special Forces troops.

1962 LN 501-220 220690 220690 COL SIL Vietnam Saigon 02:00:08 - 02:05:57 South Vietnam Operations March - April 1962
Junk with its sails down; lifeboat trailing behind - people working on junk
01:01:22 MAAG Headquarters, Saigon, sentry standing, with rifle, at entrance to gate. CU, Sign over doorway, reading, "US Military Assistance Advisory Group".
VSs, Workers working on contruction of new building, at MAAG Headquarters.
02:03:42 Rear View South Vietnamese sailors, with rifles at present arms looking out over water.
Submarine USS Bluegill (SS-242) approaching down stream, at Saigon. - South Vietnamese band palying. USS Bluegill in stream, underway to pier; crew of Bluegill, on deck.Crowds lining shore. LS, Bluegill underway, approaching camera.
Capt. Barry, CO of Bluegill and invited guests in conning tower, of submarine. MS, Man handling lines, on Bluegill during tying up. MS, Men at quarters on deck of Bluegill. LA, MS, commanding officer and officers on watch, in conning tower. CU, Bluegill tied up to pier. CU, Capt. J.B. Dracknick, Chief Navy Section MAAG, Saigon talking to Cdr. Parke, Naval Attache to Saigon, South Vietnam. CU, Capt. Dracknick shaking hands, with Capt. Barry, on deck of submarine.

1962 LN 501-220 220690 220690 COL SIL Vietnam Tuy Hoa, Phu Yen Province, South Vietnam 02:37:31 - 02:46:45 MAAG Team 28, Tuy Hoa, Phu Yen Province, South Vietnam 18th Nov. 1962
Vietnamese soldiers with Viet Cong prisoners walking along track through bushes. CU prisoners with hands on head. Prisoners interrogated by intelligence officer Lt Nguyen Khoan. Hand pointing to map location.
Various shots intellgence officers including US advisor Captain Fletcher with prisoner and map.
20:40:56 Prisoner under armed guard marched away. Soldiers bring more viet cong from bushes - check papers.
02:42:05 Vietnamese troops and an American helping women and children unload from CH-21 helicopter, these are Montaguard refugees. Two young women with children touch foreheads in greeting.
02:43:19 Helicopter landing and refugees off. Refugees helped onto military truck.
02:44:26 Flushing out viet cong and interrogation of prisoners.

1963 LN 501-092 220516 LN 501-092 b/w Sd Vietnam Saigon 01:02:40 - 01:04:54 The Vietnam revolt
Ngo Dinh Diem Toppled in South Vietnam
Military parade with Diem a few days before army revolt. Streets of Saigon, rebel troops in streets, rebel tanks rolling through streets. Civilians hanging out alongside tanks and soldiers firing guns at palace. Presidential palace with bullet holes and heavy damage. Civilian crowd outside palace gates, soldiers inside gates as palace is taken over. Crowd marching with banners, celebrations. Building burning, hosed down (Diem newspaper plant?), papers thrown out of window and burned.

1964 - 1967 LN 501-201 LN 501-201 LN 501-201 COL&B/W SD USA Germany Korea Russia Cuba Berlin
New York
Hyannisport
Moscow Washington 13:42:09 - 13:51:15 Pursuit of Peace Reel 2 part 2
Montage aid programmes - cargo ship unloaded - medical care in Africa - inoculations - construction work - education - Peace Corp volunteers. UN peace keeping troops in Middle East? UN Special forces military training - patrol walking through river. Mass parachute drop.
13:44:12 Vietnam war - Troops firing machine guns and rifles - helicopters fly in formation - battle scenes - jungle fighting. Casualty airlifted out by chopper. Helicopter crashed in field, troops running for cover.
13:45:13 Switzerland - Colour - UN flag flying - mural on ceiling of UN building. United Nations meeting to discuss Nuclear arms treaty.CU various delegates including William Foster for US - Russian delegate - Lord Chalfont for UK - empty chair for France. Russian delegate Sarobkin? speaking. Later at press briefing Russian representative says Soviet Union favours full discussion with US to stop spread of Nuclear weapons. Foster speaking re urgency of treaty.
13:47:43 Foster stands in park overlooking Lake Geneva. Flock of seagulls.
13:48:27 Girl folk singer at peace demonstration in Washington. Huge crowds watch in silence as she sings.
13:49:30 Montage children of all nationalities playing and laughing. Kids standing next to radar scanner. Close shots children's faces, some happy, some sad.
13;50:15 Interior missile silo crew room at Minuteman Missile Base, Malmstrom AFB, Montana - two man crew at consoles. 24 hour clock.
Cold War

1964 LN 501-081 LN 501-081 LN 501-081 col SIL At Sea ( Vietnam ) 13:00:12 - 13:11:11 Simulated Tonkin Gulf Incident
Much of this footage was taken aboard USS TICONDEROGA, USS CONSTELLATION, USS Maddox, and USS Turner Joy. This film attempts to reconstruct the activities which actually took place aboard these ships, during the period of Tonkin Gulf Incident.
R. C. Barnhart (CO of USS Turner Joy, DD-951) scanning the horizon, with a pair of binoculars; telephone talker is standing next to him, wearing phones and helmet; open sea off to right. LT. J. Palmer (Operation"s officer) looking through sighting area on pelorus, giving bearings. Signalman sending message by signal light, from USS Turner Joy. MS Signalman sending up a hoist, from flagbag.CU Lookout scanning the horizon, with his binoculars, sending a report over phones, scans the horizon. Interior - men operating the tracking devices; two men are on the radar; third man is standing in BG, with phones. Flashes from gun fire at night. Captain speaking on ships intercom. CU Officers and men gathered around chart table in radar room, plotting a course. CU Men on radar scope .
13:06:47 MS Pulling a 1000 1b. bomb, from bomb elevator, on small bomb cart, after the bomb arrives at the flight deck on the elevator. Unloading rockets from elevator, by a trailer, and pulling the rockets out of frame to left. CU Looking down over bomb elevator; 250 1b. fragmentation bombs come up on elevator; handle is attached to small cart; three of the bombs are pulled off. MS 1000 1b. bomb coming up on elevator to flight deck level; bomb pulled from the elevator, onto flight deck. MS A-1H plane on flight deck of USS Ticonderoga (CVA-14) bombs are loaded on wings of the aircraft. MS Ordnanceman hanging bombs on A-1H aircraft wing is a 250 1b. fragmentation bomb. CU Gas crew fueling the wing pod on A-1H aircraft; hoses in FG. MS Men pushing bomb carts over the flight deck, with bombs to be loaded aboard the aircraft. MS Four pilots in flight gear, walking toward camera, over flight deck. MS Two ordnancemen using the small bomb hoist, to hoist a 1000 1b. bomb under the under carriage of A-1H. Man boarding A-1H, climbing into cockpit. Plane captain comes up onto wing, hands the pilot his hard hat helmet, assists pilot with his harness; plane captain is A. Kolesar (ADRAN). ECU Ordnanceman working underneath the aircraft; 1000 1b. bomb is seen hooked up under undercarriage to left. Plane takes off.

1964 LN 501-081 LN 501-081 LN 501-081 col SIL At Sea ( Vietnam ) 13:11:19 - 13:19:35 Simulated Tonkin Gulf Incident
Much of this footage was taken aboard USS TICONDEROGA, USS CONSTELLATION, USS Maddox, and USS Turner Joy. This film attempts to reconstruct the activities which actually took place aboard these ships, during the period of Tonkin Gulf Incident.
Crew run to hatch door of gun mounting last man in closes hatch behind him during GQ. CU Twin rapid fire 3" gun being manned; men donning battle gear on double; director is seen in BG. CU 3" rapid fire twin mount being trained. LA CU Loader loading shells into 3" gun. CU Ready shell. CU Loader loading shell as gun commences rapid fire, stops and commences again, until shells are gone.
13:15:37 Operator on scope, man making markings on radar scope, and passing information over phone,
CU Two men working at chart table; both men are wearing phones. CU Man on radar scope, passing word over his phones.
CU Chief Quartermaster looking out over aviation chart, tracing route of ship thru Tonkin Gulf. Looking down over chart, showing road to MADDOX through Tonkin Gulf
HA MCU Ships doctor and hospital medic corpsman giving aid and saline solution transfusion to an engineman who collapsed from heat during attack in Tonkin Gulf- respirator is held up to man's mouth
CU Engineman being wiped down with alcohol by doctor; hospital corpsman holds respirator over mans mouth. CU Looking down over respirator held over mans mouth.

1964 LN 501-081 LN 501-081 LN 501-081 col SIL At Sea ( Vietnam ) 13:19:44 - 13:30:16 Simulated Tonkin Gulf Incident
Much of this footage was taken aboard USS TICONDEROGA, USS CONSTELLATION, USS Maddox, and USS Turner Joy. This film attempts to reconstruct the activities which actually took place aboard these ships, during the period of Tonkin Gulf Incident.
CDR. Ogier taking bearing on pelorus on wing of bridge of USS Maddox. CDR. Ogier and LCDR. D.M. Jackson talking on wing of bridge while in battle dress. CDR. Ogier talking on phone, telling crew the ship is under attack. Aircraft A-1H being catapulted from USS TICONDEROGA for weapons strike. RF-8A parked on flight-deck edge. MS Photographer loading and closing door on camera area of RF-8A, then walking off to right. LS Ship of Task Group on horizon. Pilots in ready room aboard USS TICONDEROGA being briefed.
LCDR. Bowling, one of the pilots involved in air strike on North Viet Nam. CU LCDR. Crayton, pilot involved in air strike on North Viet Nam, sitting in ready room during briefing. CU LT. ER and LT. Webber two pilots who are involved in strike on North Viet Nam, in ready room during briefing. CU CO of squadron, standing before a map of Viet Nam, briefing pilots.
CU Rear Admiral R.B. Moore in CIC room aboard other men on watch are off to left.
Moore in war room with Captain J.C. Daniels, Chief of Staff COMCARDIV 5
Catapult officer giving aircraft take-off signal aboard TICONDEROGA
A-G CU TICONDEROGA underway; A-4E and F-8E aircraft are taxiing up to catapult. RF-8A taking off from port catapult; PAN back to right, showing A-4E taking off from *1 catapult. A-G Looking down over flight deck, showing A-3B on *1 catapult; A-1H is taxiing up to *2 catapult. A-G A-1H taking off from *2 catapult.
13:27:16 A-G USS Maddox underway showing number, "731" on port bow
13:28:44 A-4E planes being landing on deck of aircraft carrier

1964 LN 501-081 LN 501-081 LN 501-081 Col SIL At Sea ( Vietnam ) 13:40:53 - 13:48:15 Simulated Tonkin Gulf Incident - A-4E & F-8Es launched
Much of this footage was taken aboard USS TICONDEROGA, USS CONSTELLATION, USS Maddox, and USS Turner Joy. This film attempts to reconstruct the activities which actually took place aboard these ships, during the period of Tonkin Gulf Incident.
A-1H catapulted. 4 A-1H planes in formation past CV-14, Ticonderoga. 2 F-8E's approach & fire rockets. Zuni rockets loaded on F-8E. Plane capt. cleaning windshield. Loading Zunis. 7A Rocket pod pushed to plane & lifted, connected to wing rack. CU of USS Ticonderoga NAVY VFP-65, markings on pods. Line of F-8Es on flight deck. Pilots walk out to planes and in (Hank Urban Jr). Lt. D.C. Anderson. ?? Sizemore. Nose wheel into catapult. Plane hooked to catapult. A-1H taxiing. A-4E catapulted off, F-8E catapulted off alternating.

1964 LN 501-081 LN 501-081 LN 501-081 Col SIL At Sea ( Vietnam ) 14:06:01 - 14:12:17 Simulated Tonkin Gulf Incident - Aerials of USS Turner Joy & USS Constellation
Much of this footage was taken aboard USS TICONDEROGA, USS CONSTELLATION, USS Maddox, and USS Turner Joy. This film attempts to reconstruct the activities which actually took place aboard these ships, during the period of Tonkin Gulf Incident.
Message coming in on teletype aboard USS Oklahoma City. Operator at machine waiting for message. Aerial of USS Turner Joy at general quarters & making high speed turn. USS Constellation, F-8E being catapulted from #1 catapult seen from distance.

1964 LN 501-081 LN 501-081 LN 501-081 Col SIL At Sea ( Vietnam ) 13:48:29 - 13:56:57 Simulated Tonkin Gulf Incident - Navy activity on USS Maddox
Much of this footage was taken aboard USS TICONDEROGA, USS CONSTELLATION, USS Maddox, and USS Turner Joy. This film attempts to reconstruct the activities which actually took place aboard these ships, during the period of Tonkin Gulf Incident.
Officers Connell & Ensign Bond on bridge of USS Maddox (DD-731) looking out with binoculars and into radar. Capt. Herrich in chair w/ Cd Ogier. Herich & Ogier in battle dress on wing of bridge. Gun director training, w/ radar on top. Smoke flare on water. Helicopter recovery made of pilot from A-4A that crashed on take off. Pilot leaves raft & swims to sling. Pilot hoisted up. Men in whale boat picking up part of gear. Roger McKeithan scanning horizon. L.C. Alexander scanning horizon with binoculars. Lt. Jg Corsett training gun director.

1964 LN 501-081 LN 501-081 LN 501-081 Col SIL At Sea ( Vietnam ) 13:57:11 - 14:05:53 Simulated Tonkin Gulf Incident - Navy activity on USS Ticonderoga, Landings & Bombs
Much of this footage was taken aboard USS TICONDEROGA, USS CONSTELLATION, USS Maddox, and USS Turner Joy. This film attempts to reconstruct the activities which actually took place aboard these ships, during the period of Tonkin Gulf Incident.
Aircraft A-1H landing on CV-14, wings folded, others land & taxi off. C-1A plane lands. A-1H lands, A-3B lands, E-1B lands, F-8E lands, A-4E being recovered. (18:32:30) Men mount fin on 1000 lb bomb, flange screwed on, bomb pushed onto elevator, door closed. Tail fin put onto 250 lb bomb and flange screwed on. 4 250 lb bombs pushed onto elevator. V. Adm Johnson COM 7th Fleet & staff around table. Stands at map & points with pointer to targets on Vietnam. Messsage coming in over teletype.

1964 LN 501-081 LN 501-081 LN 501-081 Col SIL At Sea ( Vietnam ) 14:12:29 - 14:21:26 Simulated Tonkin Gulf Incident - Aerials of USS Turner Joy & USS Constellation
Much of this footage was taken aboard USS TICONDEROGA, USS CONSTELLATION, USS Maddox, and USS Turner Joy. This film attempts to reconstruct the activities which actually took place aboard these ships, during the period of Tonkin Gulf Incident.
W signalmen sending up signal flags. UH-2B Helicopter taking off from Constellation; Aircraft F-4B taking off; E-1B off; F-4B off; Looking down on cockpit area with pilot climbing down. A-4A taxing onto #2 catapult. Plane catapulted off. Planes land & taxi off; pulled into hanger area, lowered on elevator

1964 LN 501-093 220522 LN 501-093 b/w Sd South Vietnam Saigon 02:18:36 - 02:19:49 New Saigon Regime - Civilian Premier Rules South Vietnam
Riots and demonstrations - students - buddhists. Khanh reported ill, civilian government at press conference - Dr Nguyen Oanh.
Vietnam war

1964 LN 501-093 220522 LN 501-093 b/w Sd USA Vietnam 02:12:19 - 02:17:58 US Bolsters Forces - Planes and Men Rushed to Asia
US ship Maddox, one of two patrol boats attacked off Gulf of Tonkin near North Vietnam. Aircraft Carriers USS TICONDEROGA, USS CONSTELLATION planes taking off. White house at night - President Johnson address to the Nation re crisis - unprovoked attack - US seeks no wider war - re instructions to Ambassador Stevenson. Exterior United Nations building. Interiors, Stevenson speaks re attacks in S.E.Asia.
18.15.33 US forces in South Vietnam - out of helicopter - across fields. Fighter bomber aircraft landing.
LBJ speaks re solemn responsibility - firmness will always be measured - its mission is peace.
Vietnam War

1964 LN 501-093 220522 LN 501-093 b/w Sd USA Hawaii 02:00:05 - 02:00:53 Asia Strategy Top US Officials Meet in Hawaii
Arrivals at Hickham AFB. Dean Rusk with Ambassador to South Vietnam Henry Cabot-Lodge.

1964 LN 501-257 220749 220749 COL SIL Japan Vietnam Tokyo Bienhoa 11:08:00 - 11:15:18 Vietnam stock footage
LS, bridge across moat at entrance to the Imperial Palace.
Night. Neon signs in the Ginza area. (excellent) Day, Low angle Tokyo Tower. High angle vehicular traffic on the Ginza at the corner of Harumi Dori Ave. LS, bridge to Imperial Palace as above.
11:10:09 Night, Neon signs in the Ginza area: NEC, Mitsubishi w/ logo. Dawn, Tokyo Tower. Olympic Swimming and Gymnastic Stadiums. The National Athletic Stadium. 11:11:47 Immense steel frame building under construction in the Akasaka area. Traffic on modern highway in the Akasaka section of Tokyo.
LS, the ultra modern Otani Hotel.
11:13:18 Slate 01Nov64 Ambassador Maxwell D Taylor And General William C Westmoreland, Comd Us Military Assistance Command, Inspect Vietcong Damage. Bienhoa Air Base, South Vietnam: 01Nov64: 176': A Vietcong group attacked the airfield with heavy-mortar fire. Six B-57 jet bombers, two Viet aircraft and CH-314 helicopter were destroyed. Eight other B-57s were damaged. A USAF officer briefing Ambassador Taylor and Gen Westmoreland on the extent of the damage. Int, damaged barracks showing rubble. Ext, row of damaged barracks. Smoking rubble of a completely destroyed plane. Damaged jet engine of B-57. Pan, B-57 with ripped-out section extending the length of the aircraft. LS, MS, Gen Westmoreland being interviewed by newsmen. US airmen sweeping debris for removal from field.
Excellent quality

1964 LN 501-263 220753 220753 COL SIL Vietnam Saigon 16:19:20 - 16:27:32 [Stock Footage Saigon 1964]
Two Vietnamese girls walking on street. Street vendors with their wares. Two women carrying baskets on their shoulders, crossing street. Lines of parked bicycles, motor scooters, and motorcycles. Night, neon signs in downtown Saigon. Most of the signs are in English.
16:22:15 Modern houses and buildings showing American and French architecture.
Catholic church. Virgin Mary Statue in F/G. Street sign in front of church "John F. Kennedy street". Street scenes with merchants on pavement. Different types of vehicles passing camera including cyclos (bicycle with a seat in front) motor cyclos, bicycles, motor bikes and cars. Two girls crossing heavily travelled street. Traffic & people walking in street. Sign, "Hertz Rent Car". Vehicular traffic in street. and people walking past bookstalls in bg.
Good street scenes

1965 220194 220194 182750 B/W Vietnam Vietnam 01:14:56 U.S. 'White Paper' -- Document Details Red Aggression
UN flag outside building; putting 'White Paper' into various boxes including USSR. POV from helicopter over river showing sunken gun boat; Copter lands, boxes and munitions carry them out of jungle and stack along river. Markings on boxes shown; rifles etc. and shells shown off. Chinese markings. US to step up naval patrols.

1965 220194 220194 182750 B/W sd Vietnam USA DC, Washington; Vietnam 01:26:19 McNamara on Vietnam -- New Moves Counter Red Infiltration
Sec. of Defense McNamara tells news conference that the US intends to step up bombings until all key supply lines from the north are destroyed. At press conference with map & showing photographs of 24 bridges destroyed. He rules out using nuclear weapons. Displaying a Red Chinese machine gun he says that North Vietnamese troops are now in the area. He says North Vietnam has run out of recruits to send into South Vietnam.

1965 220194 220194 182750 B/W sd Vietnam USA Vietnam, Pleiku; North Vietnam 01:05:31 - 01:11:14 Showdown in Vietnam.
At Pleiku, Vietnam airbase was attacked by Communist guerrillas. Destroyed planes shown; buildings damaged. 8 died. US & South Vietnamese forces retaliate. 49 jets from carriers & land strike back across the North Vietnam border. CU large picture of serviceman's daughter. (01:07:00) MacNamara at press conference in front of mics & pointing to map. Makes sound statement. Aircraft carrier& planes taking off seen from on board, in air and planes in flight. S. Korean flyers taking off from ground. Hawk ground-to-air missles. Sign: Camp Holloway. George McBundy arrives and talks with Kahn. Walk across metal airstrip, visits hospital with bandaged men laying on cots. At White House before mics & with newsreel cameras. Sd. Statement about Americans in Vietnam & sneak attacks.
1965 220194 220194 182750 B/W sd Vietnam MD, Baltimore - Johns Hopkins University; Vietnam 01:22:49 President on Vietnam -- Offers Peace Talks, Proposes Aid Program
President Johnson speaks on Vietnam & American policy at Johns Hopkins University. Announces US willingness to begin, without conditions, diplomatic discussions to end the war in Vietnam. US is ready to begin billion dollar investment to bring economic independence to all of Southeast Asia, including North Vietnam. Speech is intercut with scenes of Vietnam.

1965 220194 220194 182750 B/W sd Vietnam Vietnam - Danang; Dominican Republic - Santo Domingo 01:28:22 Marines in Action -- Dominican Rescue, Vietnam Offensive
US Marines sent into Dominican Republic as 3-man Junta takes over; fighting continues as attempt is made to return Pres. Juan Bosch to power. Marine helicopters take troops from aircraft carrier. Copters overhead. Landing in field. Troops standing & truck past. POV down river in South Vietnam the Marines fight the Viet Cong around Danang. Landing craft into shore & trucks off. POV from rear of truck. Low angle of Marines past in trucks. Sandbagged tent & bunkers.

1965 220194 220194 182750 B/W sd Vietnam Vietnam 01:11:17 - 01:12:45 Report From Vietnam
Aerial past machine gun; inside cockpit of helicopter; copters land. Journalist briefing. Marines move forward & check foxholes. Move single file up. Mortars set up. Captured weapons shown. Wounded treated & loaded on copter. View from cockpit. Jungle in Vietnam; minor battles; Vietnamese troops & foxholes near Saigon.

1965 220194 220194 182750 B/W sd Vietnam Vietnam 01:18:11 - 01:19:44 Operation 'Copter -- Air Units Rescue Wounded From Jungle
POV of helicopter cockpit. Guided into brush & jungle. Stretcher taken off as men stand guard. 2 men scream into each others ears as others gather wounded and put on board. Blacks, Vietnamese and White. Stretchers on racks in helicopter. Unloaded at base. (abrupt end)

1965 220194 220194 182750 B/W sd Vietnam Vietnam 01:19:50 Step Up Viet Raids -- Carrier Planes Strike Red Bases
Ready room of carrier and briefing for pilots and journalists. Prop planes & jets on board ship are readied. Bombs loaded onto wings in preparation for raids on North Vietnam. Planes take off. Jet lands smoothly.

1965 220194 220194 182750 B/W sd Vietnam Vietnam, Danang 01:17:23 Marines Land -- Begin Guard Duty at Vietnam Bases
POV ship off shore; Marines down netting into landing boats to shore and run across beach; some in troops carriers. Large trucks.

1965 220194 220194 182750 B/W sd Vietnam Vietnam, Saigon 01:12:53 New Vietnam Coup -- Push Diplomatic Talks As Khanh Resigns
Khanh w/ troops. Military move about & planes fly over as troops leisurely patrol streets & sit on parked tanks and jeeps. People watch. Troops move with weapons thru streets. Press conference with Kye (sp?) and Col. Thae. Tanks & personnel carriers thru streets past embassy or base. Street scenes.

1965 220194 220194 182750 B/W sd Vietnam Vietnam, Saigon 01:21:08 - 01:22:41 [Bomb Rips United States Embassy in Saigon]
Men run to wreckage; ambulance arrive. Americans bleeding heavily while helped away. Much blood. Medics and stretchers. Wrecked cars hosed down as people mill about. Offices wrecked. US flag limply flying over building with windows blown out.

1965 LN 501-093 220522 LN 501-093 b/w Sd Vietnam Da Nang 02:46:38 - 02:47:21
Marines Land - Begin Guard Duty at Vietnam Bases.
US ships at anchor - US marines into landing craft - troops onto beach. Military vehicles unloaded from landing craft.
Vietnam War

1965 LN 501-094 220523 LN 501-094 b/w Sd USA Vale New Jersey 03:16:30 - 03:17:13 New Vietnam Weapon - Cutters to Patrol Lonely Coast
Four Coast Guard cutters loaded aboard the cargo ship Pioneer. Cutter Point Glover hoisted on board, secured on deck. Cutters at dockside.
(Vietnam War)

1965 LN 501-147 220603 220603 b/w Sd USA Vietnam John Hopkins University 11:06:32 - 11:09:53 President on Vietnam - Offers Peace Talks, Proposes Aid Program
President Johnson (LBJ) at microphone makes speech re Vietnam since 1954. Says he intends to keep promises made to South Vietnam. Cutaways of audience. Talks re peace and an independent South Vietnam. Brief shot S.Vietnam industry - dam / factory. Says he will ask Congress to join in billion dollar investment aid package for S.Vietnam. Montage industry and agriculture in Vietnam. Vietnamese doctor seeing patients - interior factory - refugees. Johnson quotes from Bible re "choose life".

1965 LN 501-257 220749 220749 COL SIL Vietnam 11:23:01 - 11:29:52 Arrival Of 1st Inf Div (Big Red One),
American Colour Guard on beach. VS, General William C. Westmoreland, CG US Army Vietnam; Brigadier General John Norton, Deputy CG, US Army Vietnam; Major General Jonathan O. Seaman, CG,1st Infantry Division, and other officers talking on beach while waiting for troops to land.
11:23:53 LCU hits beach. General Westmoreland shakes hands with the first two soldiers who come ashore. Soldiers carrying barracks bags come off LCU. CUs, soldiers of the Colour Guard. LCU heading for beach. Shot from LCU as it approaches ship USNS Daniel I Sultan. Soldiers board LCU from the Sultan. VS, soldiers relax on deck of LCU. CUs, Negro soldier and others seated on barracks bags in LCU. Soldiers come off gangway from Sultan onto LCU. Shot of Sultan from LCU as it pulls away. HSs, LCU deck crowded with soldiers under way. LCU heading for the Sultan.
Excellent quality

1965 LN 501-257 220749 220749 COL SIL Vietnam Camp Holloway 11:15:30 - 11:23:01 Aftermath of Vietcong Attack
The attack was made on the Vietnamese II Corps Head Quarters area which includes Camp Holloway, home of the 52nd Aviation Battalion, Army Support Command, Vietnam. Seven were killed and 43 wounded, all Americans.
LS, entrance to Camp Holloway with identifying sign. Tracking shot of Camp Holloway Airfield. Military men looking at damage. CU, rubble of a destroyed helicopter. CU, ashes of another helicopter. American soldiers putting M-60 Machine Gun ammunition into belts. Partly damaged UH-1. MCU, sandbags around unexploded hand grenade. CU, unexploded hand grenade. Completely destroyed UH- 1 helicopter. Pan, gutted tail section of helicopter. CU, smouldering ashes and rubble. CU, bent ammunition container. Shot from moving vehicle of UH-1 helicopter standing on field. Corps sign.
Wreckage in American quarters in the II Corps compound. Quarters are completely destroyed: smashed roofs, exposed beams, bent metal. CUs, damage done to foundation. Pan, broken parts and rubble on the ground. Int, old ceiling fan turning on completely exposed ceiling. Tilt down to wrecked furniture. Tilt down on observation tower on airfield. LS, wreckage on field.
11:20:17 CU, sign on building: "Camp Holloway Airfield Operations". MS, Major General Delk M. Oden talking with an unidentified two- star Vietnamese officer and Major General Nguyen Khanh on airstrip. C-123 taxis to a stop. General William C. Westmoreland, Commander, US Military Assistance, Vietnam, and Mr. McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to President for National Security, get off plane. General Westmoreland and Mr. Bundy talk with General Khanh. CU, Great Seal of the US on side of plane. VS, Westmoreland, Bundy, and Khanh start on inspection tour. Others follow. CU, blown tire on plane landing gear; pan to hole in steel mat. CU, General Khanh talking to Mr. Bundy. MCU, General Westmoreland talking to Mr. Bundy and Major General Oden. CUs, rubbish strewn about. LA, ragged holes in blown roof of American quarters.
Excellent quality

1965 LN 501-257 220749 220749 COL SIL Vietnam Saigon 11:30:02 - 11:38:31 Results of Bombing of the US Embassy
Ints, extreme damage inside the building; smashed furniture, rubble strewn about, broken windows. MS, American and Embassy flags undisturbed in holders. Embassy personnel walking about.
11:31:43 Exterior views wrecked buildings across the street from the embassy. CU, blood on glass top of desk. Rubble in offices. Wall map of Vietnam hanging askew. LA, American flag flying from roof of the damaged building. Tilt down to entrance. Rubble outside building. CU, bent street car tracks with the ground blasted underneath. LA, shattered windows of the embassy. Wreckage of car which carried the explosives. Another damaged building. Wrecked cars in street. Burned-out motor scooter. LA, US Embassy seal above entrance. Smashed windows. American MPs on guard outside building. LSs, embassy. A few people in front.
Aftermath. Damage. Wreckage.
Some of these shots are soft.

1965 LN 501-295 220798 220798 COL SIL Vietnam 19:12:51 - 19:23:26 Operation Long reach, 1st Cavalry DIY (Airmobile)
05Nov65 - 06Nov65
Soldiers rush through elephant grass to downed UN-1D helicopter. Soldiers tie down rotor blades and secure equipment inside the helicopter. Soldiers take defensive positions around the UN-1D. CH-47 helicopter flies in and hovers over the downed UN-1D. Hoist is secured and the CH-47 lifts the UN-1D and flies off. CH-47 carrying the damaged UN-1D.
19:15:24 Good aerials of Camp Halloway. CH-47 lowers the UN-1D to ground at Camp Halloway. Three officers is discussion. Soldiers resting, sleeping, writing letters, and reading.
19:17:35 Medics treating a seriously wounded Vietcong.
19:18:45 Soldiers move through jungle to clearing. Tired and battle-weary men rest, smoke, and talk. CUs faces of exhausted soldiers. Men carry dead American soldiers on litter to UN- 1D helicopters. UN-1Ds take off.
Good dramatic coverage. Excellent quality

1965 LN 501-295 220798 220798 COL SIL Vietnam 19:23:35 - 19:32:51 Operation Long reach, 1st Cavalry DIY (Airmobile)
05Nov65 - 06Nov65 -
UN-1D helicopter lands. Soldiers jump out and run across grass. Soldiers come across a dead Vietcong. Sergeant searches through the clothing of the dead man. Two medics tend seriously wounded American soldier. Face of aidman showing anguish. Soldiers carry wounded on litters to UN-1D helicopter. UN-1D takes off.
19:25:56 Dead American soldiers are carried off on makeshift litters. Other soldiers are on the alert. Lt Colonel James H. Nix, Commander 2d Battalions, 8th Cavalry, 1st Brigade, going through brush checking the dead soldiers. Dead American in jungle. Two soldiers arrive, place the dead soldier on litter and carry the body off. Soldiers rush toward jungle (sniper fire). Pan, jungle area.
19:28:31 Gunner at door of airborne helicopter. Pilot and copilot at controls of CH-47. Shot from CH-47 as it picks up downed UN-1D helicopter and carries it over jungle to grassy field.
UN-1Ds take off. Sun is setting in bg. CH-47 lands in field (day)
19:31:55 Soldiers of the 2d Battalion, 8th Cavalry, 1st Brigade, load a 105mm How into the CH-47. Soldier examines a captured Vietcong 57mm RR.
Good dramatic and tragic coverage. Excellent quality

1965 SN 901-009 220294 220294 B/W Sd Vietnam ? USA ? at sea 14:29:21 - 14:30:28 "Enterprise" In War - Nuclear Air Craft Carrier Joins 7th Fleet
Off Vietnam coast she will be accompanied by nuclear powered frigate Bainbridge. Shots carrier with plane taking off and landing - AV frigate - radar dishes - on board - missiles.

1965 SN 901-009 220294 220294 B/W Sd Vietnam 14:43:52 - 14:45:27 Vietnam Action Enterprise Planes Support Troops.
Air Craft Carrier USS Enterprise - Phantom jet takes off from carrier. Jet flying over Vietnam. US troops with tanks and trucks. Ambush - American and South Vietnamese troops pinned down by enemy fire - wounded taken on stretcher to helicopter. Military trucks.

1966 LN 501-095 220524 LN 501-095 b/w Sd USA Vietnam 04:41:20 - 04:43:56 Vietnam Step-Up - Hanoi and Haiphong Oil Depots Bombed
Defence Secretary McNamara at press conference, points to map on wall. Press taking notes.
20:41:54 750lb bombs being loaded onto F-105. Jets taking off. Aircraft Carrier USS Ranger - jets take off.
20:42:47 McNamara at press conference giving details of bombing raids - some over aerial views bombing in Vietnam.
Vietnam War

1966 LN 501-095 220524 LN 501-095 b/w Sd USA Hawaii 04:00:00 - 04:01:43 Johnson in Hawaii - President Meets with Saigon Leaders
Crowds at Honolulu airport to greet LBJ. Air Force One lands and taxis. Johnson given lei. Catherine Westmoreland, daughter of US commander in Vietnam, who hitched ride with President to visit mother. Crowds lining street at night. Johnson greeting various people.
Vietnam war

1966 LN 501-095 220524 LN 501-095 b/w Sd USA Hawaii 04:06:42 - 04:09:25 Vietnam's Future - Hawaiian Parley Affirms U.S. Aims
Three day summit between US and South Vietnam leaders. Exterior meeting place. President Johnson with Premier Nguyen Cao Ky and Chief of State Nguyen Van Thieu - group pose for cameras. Meeting in progress seated round table. Exterior at end of meeting. In Los Angeles, V.P. Humphrey waits for return of LBJ. Press photographers. President holds press conference and makes speech re battle for peace "we shall fight all these battles successfully, and we shall prevail" (out of sync)

1966 LN 501-095 220524 LN 501-095 b/w Sd Vietnam Saigon 04:19:44 - 04:20:50 Vietnam Riots - demonstrations
Buddhists including monks and nuns hold hunger strikes in Saigon. Demonstrators march to Buddhist national shrine - banners - sit-down strike. Riots - police with batons. Rioters using police barbed wire to protect hunger strikers - barricades.

1966 LN 501-096 220525 LN 501-096 b/w Sd Vietnam South 05:06:48 - 05:08:00 Vietnam Votes - Election First Step Towards Democracy
Street scenes - election banners and posters. People entering polling station. Interiors, women getting voting papers. Ballot papers into boxes. Counting votes.

1966 LN 501-220 220690 220690 COL SIL Vietnam Da Nang 02:06:07 - 02:15:20 Naval Support Activities, Da Nang - Jan & Feb 1966
Barge alongside merchant ship in harbour at Da Nang; PAN back away from ship & lighter, Lighter alongside merchant ship during offloading of supplies onto the barge,
02:08:05 LCM-8 at sea in Da Nang river; the USS Bexar (APA-237) underway - shoreline in background.
02:09:28 Commercial Pier at Da Nang docks- warehouses. Mobile crane hanging its hook over the barge; PAN further L to merchant ship (unident.),
02:10:30 Looking across the river showing village; Landing craft enters scene R moving north down the Da Nang river (it"s Number is 1380); LCU leaves scene L; village seen on far shore of the river,
02:11:17 Dock area. PAN around port side of ON APL-30, floating barracks
APL-30 up to dock at Da Nang harbour. Small craft tied up to dock at the Da Nang harbor; small craft are the Navy YFRNs 997, 385, 412, F, UX.
Various small boats of varied descriptions tied up to dock in Da Nang harbour,
02:14:54 USS Bexar - LCVP moving up past the starbd. side and out of scene.

1966 LN 501-220 220690 220690 COL SIL Vietnam Da Nang 02:15:30 - 02:23:34 War Dog - Vietnam - Da Nang 1967
Military dogs and handlers loaded into trucks at kennel area. Rear view trucks down road. Truck stops and one handler with dog gets out at sentry post. Alsation and soldier on patrol past barbed wire fence.
02:18:05 Navy dog Sentry sign: "U.S. Navy, Sentry Dogs". Tracking shot past dog cages - dogs barking and snarling (mos) . Dog handler with dog walks past cages. Dog handler demonstrating various orders with dog. Handler training dog to jump fences. Dog walking on hind legs to command. Dog on leash attacking padded man as demonstration of attack dog. Dog racing across sand to "attack" fully padded man. Padded man pushes handler over - dog goes to rescue. CU dog panting. CU handler.

1966 LN 501-295 220798 220798 COL SIL Vietnam 19:33:04 - 19:41:08 Operation Kickoff - 173rd Airborne Brigade
02Jan66 - 05Jan66
Slate: "Operation R.U.N." - Napalm drops and interrogating Vietnamese villagers
A-1E Skyraider plane drops napalm on Vietcong positions and a few soldiers walk past. A-1 drops napalm bombs on Vietcong positions. Soldiers carry wounded man on litter. Officer sets off red flare to mark helicopter landing zone. Officer signals UH-1D to landing. Wounded on litters and walking patients are put aboard the helicopter. A-1E dives at Vietcong position with soldier on ground in fg. Group of soldiers on ground with one man speaking over radio. LS Shells bursting on Vietcong positions with American soldiers in grass in fg.
19:36:31 Two medics treating soldier who was wounded in the buttocks.
19:37:38 UH-1D flying over rice paddies. Soldier wades knee deep in mud of paddy - other soldiers of B Company follow him.
19:38:22 Soldiers of the 3rd Platoon, E Troop, search a suspected Vietcong farmhouse. Sergeant, questions woman. Soldier walks Vietcong suspect across paddy. Two Vietcong suspects questioned. Old man interrogated. Sergeant searching in brush near tree. Vietcong suspects questioned - they are blindfolded and their hands are tied. LS prisoners led away. Woman and children led out of farmhouse.
Good dramatic coverage. Excellent quality

1966 LN 501-295 220798 220798 COL SIL Vietnam 19:41:18 - 19:49:45 Operation Kickoff - 173rd Airborne Brigade
05Jan66 - 06Jan66
Soldiers listen to a captured Vietcong wind-up record player / phonograph.
19:42:07 Soldiers wade waist-deep across narrow stream. Several UH-1D helicopters land in field as soldiers wait in fg. Soldiers board UH-1D. Soldiers jump out of UH-1D and run across field. UH-1Ds fly off. Soldiers advance across field.
19:43:07 Soldiers with group of women and children sitting on the ground in field. Two soldiers walk along edge of tree line. Soldiers direct a group of Vietcong suspects (mostly women and children) across field.
Medic treats leg of a wounded soldier. Soldiers advance past an exploding yellow smoke bomb; an officer speaks over radio as he walks past. Soldier checks hole for Vietcong. Soldier searches old man with walking stick. Soldiers advance across field. Women and children come out of a camouflaged hut.
Soldiers walk along narrow dirt path.
19:45:56 Soldier of the 8th Battalion, 6th Army, cleans and services a 155mm Howitzer - shot from inside Howitzer showing soldier's face. Firing Howitzer (good sequence).
19:48:37 Rubber fuel tanks (bladders) are rolled out of C-123 aircraft. Forklift loads artillery shells into the C-123.

1967 - 1980s LN 504-034 220427 LN 504-034 LN 504-034 ? col Sd USA Washington DC 02:06:20 - 02:12:41 [Air Force Now - Project Warrior]
Fighter plane in flight.
Vietnam bombing through flak - POV from plane. Officer in Washington park interviewed re Project Warrior & mission to nurture patriotism & sense of purpose & belonging within the Air Force with various programs.

1967 220267 182749 + 181544 B/W Vietnam Vietnam, Danang; 14:17:14 News In Brief (Demonstration against Viet Cong)
Vietnam demonstrators w/ placards march past cameras. Separate groups of young women & boys.

1967 LN 501-084 220467 220467 b/w Sd England Spain USA London Madrid Detroit 03:39:30 - 03:41:21 Protests Galore
England - Anti-war demonstration / protest. Demonstrators scuffle with police. Demonstration organised by CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) Parade down street.
03:40:08 Madrid University - students demonstrate against America and Vietnam war - burning US flag.
03:40:36 Anti-hate demonstration in Detroit - hippies - painting car with legalise pot / dope - Love in. Girls dancing.

1967 LN 501-084 220467 220467 b/w Sd USA Italy New York San Francisco Rome 03:32:48 - 03:35:31 Peace March - Thousands Oppose Vietnam War
Anti-war demonstrators marching with protest banners - crowds in Central park - shots showing hippy fashions - draft card burning. Argument between soldier and peace protestors. Anti Anti-war march - signs Lets bomb Hanoi - Anarchy cannot be permitted in the USA. Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King leads procession to United Nations - police arrest demonstrators - dragging off.
03:34:12 San Francisco demonstration - parade with banners along Market Street - Rally in stadium - scuffle.
03:34:47 Rome - night peace demonstration outside US embassy - turns into riot - police - fighting - sit down protest - using water cannon.

1967 LN 501-084 220467 220467 b/w Sd Vietnam 03:19:00 - 03:20:31
Vietnam Action - Jets and Marines in Sharp Fight
AV bombs dropping on North Vietnam port. Troops firing howitzers. Helicopters carrying US Fourth infantry. Troops out of copter. Reconnaissance patrols through jungle areas.

1967 LN 501-084 220467 220467 b/w Sd Vietnam 03:41:22 - 03:42:04 News in Brief - Vietnam
American jet fighter bombers in vietnam. AVs bombs hitting ground - bridges and storage areas bombed.

1967 LN 501-096 220525 LN 501-096 b/w Sd Vietnam South 05:29:23 - 05:29:49 News in Brief - Vietnam
South Vietnamese Premier Ky greets Japanese Premier Sato. Guard of honour. Children wave Japanese flags. Ky and Sato on dais.

1967 LN 501-097 220526 220526 b/w SD USA New York City
5th Avenue 22:32:32 - 22:32:58 News in Brief - New York City
20th Annual Loyalty Day Parade on 5th Avenue by the VFW - Veterans of Foreign Wars. These parades originally started to counter Communist May Day parades. Various shots military in parade. Hon. Marshall Martha Raye, recently returned from Vietnam in parade.

1967 LN 501-097 220526 220526 b/w SD Vietnam 22:07:29 - 22:08:45 Vietnam Elections - Thieu and Ky Gain Victory
Crowds waiting outside polling rooms. Governor Hughes of New Jersey attends as US observer and Whitney Young. Interior - people voting. Thieu entering and casting vote. Thieu surrounded by press. Runner up Su. Thieu and Ky in chairs. (soft)

1967 LN 501-097 220526 220526 b/w SD Vietnam 22:18:45 - 22:19:20 News in Brief - Vietnam - Airboats demonstrated
Sign - airboats. Troops driving airboats / aircat - driven by aircraft propeller - over swamp land.
Inventions military

1967 LN 501-097 220526 220526 b/w SD Vietnam 22:51:35 - 22:52:24 News in Brief - Vietnam
334th armed helicopter company - troops arming chopper. AV over target area - soldier sitting in doorway of chopper firing machine gun. Mini-gun and rockets fired. AV over smoking jungle village.

1967 LN 501-097 220526 220526 b/w SD Vietnam DaNang area 22:25:30 - 22:26:03 News in Brief - Vietnam
US Marines round up suspected Vietcong and sympathisers including many women and children from village near Danang. Old women eating army rations. Medics tending to wounded soldier - bandaging chest. Troops carry wounded man on makeshift litter through swamp.

1967 LN 501-097 220526 220526 b/w SD Vietnam Danang Nr. 22:01:40 - 22:02:31 News in Brief - Vietnam
Marine Skyhawk jets strafe and bomb rice field south of Da Nang. Saturation bombing with Napalm. Troops on ground using machine gun and automatic rifle. Troops search area and find tunnel. Prisoner walked away for questioning.

1967 LN 501-097 220526 220526 b/w SD Vietnam Saigon 22:31:50 - 22:32:31 News in Brief - Saigon
New US Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker arrives in Saigon. Greeted off plane. Bunker and crowd into building. Outgoing Ambassador Cabot-Lodge surrounded by reporters and camera crews before he boards aircraft. Cabot-Lodge and wife wave from top of stairs.

1967 LN 501-183 220637 LN 501-183 B/W SD Vietnam 01:03:23 - 01:03:57 News In Brief - Vietnam
Aerial views from Navy Skyhawk jet over North Vietnam. Explosions as bridges are bombed. Rockets firing on boats.

1967 SN 501-027 220584 220584 b/w Sd Vietnam Saigon - Mekong River 10:17:48 - 10:19:13 Security - Saigon Prepares Against Terrorists
Special boats patrol waterways of Mekong River - American Soldiers searching native canoes. Shots of shoreline from boat - huts. Saigon street scenes with security posts. Military police search civilians.

1967 SN 901-010 220294 220294 B/W Sd Vietnam 14:49:50 - 14:50:30 Foe's last Line - U.S. Troops take Hill 875
US jet bombers overhead - US paratroopers through wooded area. US troops capture hill and large amount of North Vietnamese weapons

1967 SN 901-010 220294 220294 B/W Sd Vietnam Dakto 14:58:12 - 14:59:02 News in Brief - Vietnam - Hills and valleys surrounding Dakto - Chinook helicoptor bringing supplies to US troops - sign Battery 4th / 42nd Artillery Sandbaggers "You yell - we shell - like hell" open 24 hours daily. US Artillery firing into hillside- howitzers firing.

1968 & 1980s LN 504-023 220338 LN 504-023 LN 504-023 Colour Sd Vietnam USA Hanoi 03:11:43 - 03:17:55 Bombing of Hanoi and Development of Radar Jamming
Hanoi 1968 bombs dropped - excellent shots of explosions - Fighter bombers in flight - flak.
02:12:28 - EV-66 aircraft used to jam radar - interior plane showing electronic equipment.
02:12:55 EF-111A equipped with ALQ-99 jamming system - planes take off - interior showing pilot and equipment. EF-111 in flight. Graphics showing the different mission the EF-111 is used for. Captain tells of difference between EF-111 and F-111. Ground maintenance crews at work. Plane takes off, shot from behind, heat haze. Interiors and exteriors plane in flight including cockpit and equipment. Shot of plane against sunset

1968 + 1969 LN 501-220 220690 220690 B/W SIL Vietnam Hue
To Quoc 02:23:42 - 02:37:21 Communist Massacre in Hue - South Vietnam
Vietnamese Government film showing atrocities committed by the Viet Cong on the residents of Hue following the 1968 Tet offensive.
People fleeing Hue during seige ogf the city - refugees with belongings run as city is bombed. - Houses burning - woman crying.
02:25:17 1969 - Long line of Vietnamese on way to newly discovered mass grave. People digging - uncovering bodies which show signs of torture. Locals trying to identify dead. Second mass grave uncovered. Body parts. Third mass burial uncovered. Local authorities meeting.
02:29:30 Assembly point for hundreds of coffins - incense burning - mourners. Coffin opened and woman looks at remains. Flowers and incense burning on coffins. Buddhist ceremonies - shrine - coffins prepared for procession. Greiving women. Funeral procession which extends for miles. Sea of white coolie hats worn by mourners. Shrine at cemetery - incense - mourning. Civilians and military mourners - reburial.

1968 LN 501-297 220800 220800 COL SIL Vietnam Hue 22:21:36 - 22:26:56 Tet Offensive Footage
Sunken LCU-1482 in shallow water, much of upper part of craft above water.
Fuel truck moving over muddy road, truck and trailer carrying crates out of supply dump area.
22:22:03 Troopers taking cover and firing rifles during Tet Offensive.
22:22:23 CU Rear view, two soldiers wearing flak jackets firing M-16's
small palm trees seen in BG. Troops advance into foxhole-like affair, in front of barbed wire fence by river.
22:23:08 21st Feb 1968 Tanks at barrier on bridge firing. MCU Bazooka Team loading and firing.
22:24:54 ARVN troopers approaching up road, running past camera.across cement causeway towards buildings. Tank firing machine gun at wooded area across river
22:25:35 Vietnamese up on tank directing fire on phones; man is wearing a red beret,
22:25:53 Refugees and a wounded person on a stretcher, woman is crying as she helps carry the wounded Villagers gathered in groups standing along a roadside.
22:26:19 Tank with tread shattered, damaged tank. CU Heavy duty forklift moving packing cases over muddy ground.

1968 LN 501-297 220800 220800 COL SIL Vietnam Hue 22:27:20 - 22:34:30 Tet Offensive Footage
US troops in street fighting, tank turning. Rear view, mechanical mule being driven past damaged buildings, another mechanical mule seen approaching with supplies men come out of brush at L with M-16s
Damage to city of Hue - damaged buildings and littered streets, mechanical mule in MBG.
Rear view, US troops moving along sidewalks, past damaged buildings, looking for Vietcong. Troops running. Man driving mechanical mule over rough terrain and barren trees shot apart by shell fire; buildings at R are badly damaged. Soldiers running forward towards camera in BG along roadway past debris, as they move to mop up city; mechanical mule seen approaching in BG with few men aboard. Mechanical mule moving down dirty, dusty, littered street, damaged buildings
Mechanical mule with four men aboard moving over littered street, one man sitting on after end of vehicle holding head in hands.
ARVN trooper walking through rubble of building holding M-1 carbine. Pock-marked buildings, damaged by rifle and shell fire. PAN up to show damaged homes and devastation.
17th Feb 1968 Troopers around mechanical mule, injured man on back. Wounded men transported on mechanical mules. Soldier down road helping wounded comrade. Wounded into truck and away. Truck backing down over road. CU Side view, truck; more wounded personnel are carried on stretchers towards truck.
Troopers running forward, others carrying wounded.
22:32:11 MCU Three soldiers, part of mortar crew. Rocket being placed in mortar and fired many times.
22:33:15 CU Partially sunken landing craft.
22:33:21 CU Two troopers hiding next to building with rifles. US forces behind stone wall firing rifles.
Troops moving forward under cover of buildings.Street fighting.

1968 LN 504-023 220338 LN 504-023 LN 504-023 Colour Sd Vietnam Khe Sanh 03:47:25 - 03:53:13
Project Warrior - Battle of Khe Sanh - Colour
Khe Sanh Jan - April 1968 battle scenes. Air Force support - B-52 bombers - Supply drops by tactical airlift. Major McGuire - sign Welcome to Khe Sanh Matcu 62 Airfield. Air force activities - helicopter - transport plane takes off - bombs dropping on airfield - fires. Different methods of dropping supplies shown - container delivery system, dropped by small parachute - low altitude parachute extraction. C-130 transport planes. Excellent shot as mortar explodes - airmen dive into foxhole - fire on airfield. Battle scenes, bombing, artillery. Aircraft on bombing runs, excellent bombs away shots including incendiary and napalm. Artillery fire. B-52 bombers dropping 500 + 750lb bombs. Night bombing using radar and skyspot. Marines moving out by helicopter. Relief troops marching along road. President Johnson (LBJ) praising gallantry of marines and airmen - battle shots. Viet village - sign Interstate 9 Open to Khe Nan - US artillery - marines - South Vietnamese troops - troops down road (Black) - shots military base.

1968 SN 501-052 220749 220749 B/W SD Vietnam Saigon 11:48:25 - 11:06:46 Target Zero, Saigon
Pro-American Vietnamese psychological warfare production covering 1968 TET offensive on Saigon with emphasis on the role of ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam) psychological warfare teams in defeating VC forces.
Street scenes in Saigon in preparation for TET festival: market; praying to ancestors. Saigon under attack and buildings burning incl aerials. Vietnamese leaving city during siege. US/ARVN troops in house-to-house combat. Vietcong prisoners being taken.
Saigon radio station on fire. Dead Vietcong.
11:53:34 Interrogation of VC prisoners. Captured weapons of Chinese or Russian origin. ARVN psychological warfare team in combat area. Vietnamese civilians, including wounded, leaving combat area with belongings. Saigon fire department putting out fires. Vietcong surrendering. More Vietcong corpses, wounded and captured weapons. Refugees. Combat. Medical care for wounded Vietcong.
12:01:06 Interrogation of captured Vietcong looking distressed. Captured weapons on display.
Rubble in combat area and Vietnamese searching through debris. Care and feeding of Vietnamese in refugee camp incl. children. Medical care of refugees. Refugees eating. Children playing. Large trucks remove debris. Saigon traffic with people cycling and tuk-tuks. LS street corner. Aerial Saigon.

1968 SN 501-058 SN 501-058 SN 501-058 B/W SIL England grosvenor Square,
London 16:04:49 - 16:10:39 Demonstration at US Embassy, London
anti-Vietnam protest
Pro-American Group, carrying American, British, South Korean and South Vietnamese flags and banners - "Southampton University Monday Club" - "Stop Vietcong Terror" etc.
LS Police a standing by & police vans. Looking down over dense crowd of Anti-American protesters with North Vietnamese flag & banner "Susses Univ." - LS protester getting pummelled by police? Anti-American demonstrators in altercation with police - some violence. MCU Mounted police. Protesters throws flour on police - Che Guevara portrait in crowd. LS over looking Grosvenor Square showing the square filled with demonstrators milling around and police trying to disperse crowd - throwing water??
Arrested demonstrators taken to police vans. More overhead views Grosvenor Square w/ protesters. Police van drives off. Group of policemen & mounted police charging through crowd.
Evening - police and vans outside square. Police arrest young woman.
16:09:45 Police carry off protester. Grosvenor Square & street littered with papers. Police carrying off some banners; running off with stretchers and carrying back wounded on stretchers into ambulance.

1969 220350 220350 220350 col Sd Vietnam
USA 15:27:34 - 15:32:48 Air Force Now - Medal of Honor
Drawings of servicemen. Hand opens box containing medal of Honor - Airman 1st Class John Levito ? to camera re being the only enlisted man in the history of the airforce to recieve medal.
15:28:21 AC-47 lifts off from runway of US AFB in South Vietnam. Interior aircraft - Mk-24 flares prepared. Flares deployed in night sky. Firing mini-guns from aircraft at night. Crew of aircraft as get orders to illuminate certain area. Artists impression of events - aircraft is jarred and hit by mortar. Crew wounded some lying on floor.
15:30:42 Airman to camera re events intercut with drawings of events - flare towards ammunition cans - Airman manages, although wounded to throw flare from aircraft thus saving all the crews lives. CU medal of Honor

1969 220486 220486 220486 Footage Farm b/w sd Vietnam 01:01:04 - 01:13:44
People's War Part 1 of 3
The Newsreel - Radical documentary
Horrors of and everyday life during Vietnam War as seen through North Vietnamese eyes.
POV shot from car driving in countryside, passes military vehicles and people. Night, Vietnamese people on roadside lit by headlights.
Ruins and rubble of country village. Voice over Vietnamese accent says Americans destroyed everything in village incl. schools and hospitals, says US wants genocide. Villagers gathered outside, woman talks, then child with injured face says how school was attacked. Vietnamese at funeral. Other talks of bomb attack. GV ruined village.
01:05:00: Attack on village: civilians running in smoke, Vietnamese soldiers. Wounded on stretcher. Child crying. Village burning, extinguishing fire.
Woman pulling water from well and making tea, still inside house. VO her story, with Vietminh husband & her involvement in armed struggle, planting bombs etc. Underground shelter inside her house
01:08:00 Scenes at neighbourhood market, buying goods, scales, weighing vegetables. Fish, poultry. VO woman says why she joined the Communist party. Fishermen at sea, carrying baskets of fish. At market, carrying carcasses. Trucks. Street scenes, people eating in outdoor canteens.
01:10;27 Militia training
VO volunteer explains why she and others joined.
Women with guns at their feet. Target practice. Young recruits, two girls with bicycle carrying gun. Factory floor of cloth plant. Good shots machines and workers.
Students in library amidst stacks of books. Chemistry class and lab

1969 220486 220486 220486 Footage Farm b/w sd Vietnam Hanoi 01:13:44 - 01:25:27 People's War Part 2 of 3
The Newsreel - Radical documentary
Horrors of and everyday life during Vietnam War as seen through North Vietnamese eyes.
01:13:44 US air attack seen from ground, Vietcong fire anti aircraft guns. Woman fanning child at night (grainy). Underground tunnel with machines and equipment, manufacturing weapons? Performance, women sing Vietnamese song and comic scene with man going off with gun and girlfriend. Actor with fake beard.
01:17;50 Rebuilding houses. Gathering parachutes in field. US soldiers arrested by Vietminh. team put flowers around anti-aircraft gun. Celebrations, singing. Souvenirs of raids around house: pieces of downed planes, US pilot helmet, photographs.
01:19:38: Communist rally in Hanoi with Communist Party dignitaries.
01:19:53: Charred landscape. VO testimony of Vietnamese veteran from Dien Bien Phu re reconstruction.
Children at school during air bombing raid hide in holes. Babies in baskets carried out to hide. Ringing alarm bell. Villagers with weapons in trenches.
Rebuilding of Vietnam: Camouflaged lorries on road. Villagers meeting. Classroom outdoors. Harvest. Refilling craters. Rafts. Digging trenches. Large canon and radar. Hanoi Polytechnic lab.
01:24:08: Air raid in Hanoi (?), Vietnamese run out to defence, on roofs with guns, firing. City burning. Soldiers at railway station with packs. Crowds, demonstration in Hanoi (?).

1969 220486 220486 220486 Footage Farm b/w sd Vietnam Hanoi 01:25:27 - 01:37:16
People's War Part 3 of 3
The Newsreel - Radical documentary
Horrors of and everyday life during Vietnam War as seen through North Vietnamese eyes.
01:25:27: Hanoi, mass meeting of Vietnamese representatives. Appeal by Ho Chi Minh read by Pham Van Dong announces 3/4 of country liberated, announces democratic elections and demands withdrawal US troops. Various shots Vietcong troops.
01;27:16 Workers in rice paddies, buffaloes. Ho Chi Minh poem sung to audience.
Village cooperative meeting to carry out Ho Chi Minh appeal. Farmers and soldiers. Nurse. Collective rebuilding roof. Children sing in school and recite. On beach preparing for assault? Forge, sawing wood, manufacturing. Vietminh war effort.

1970s - 1980s LN 504-029 220369 LN 504-029 LN 504-029 COL SD USA, VIETNAM 23:01:00 - 23:08:59 Air Force Now - Not Forgotten (Part One)
re Vietnam POWs
Dramatic painting of eyes behind bars.
12Feb1973, first POWs from North Vietnam released: out of bus and in line to shake hands with Vietnamese military. POW on crutches. Vietnamese authorities at desk. POW plane takeoff. POWs aboard plane laughing, smoking. Plane lands in USA. Families on airfield await arrival behind huge sign 'This stop: freedom". First POW out of plane shakes hands with officer and makes speech re opportunity to serve their country & God Bless America. Latino family waves. Family w/ sign "God Bless America My Home Sweet Home" & other patriotic welcome signs.
22.04.57 Montage:
Medical examinations, POWs eat at cafeteria, clothes given, haircut, manicure, woman in miniskirt out of car, church, shop windows. City (NYC?) at night, Walk / Don't Walk lights, neon signs, Coca Cola sign, airfield and welcome home signs, hugging wives.
22.06.22 Interviews ex POW re: Vietcong telling POWs the USA considered American POWs criminals; Vietnamese pushing POWs to write anti-war statements; finding closeness to God; circumstances of capture; "getting used to miniskirts is a big shock"; men's 1970s fashion styles.
Americana

1970s 220373 220373 220373 COL&B/W SD Vietnam 02:45:47 - 02:51:01 [Air Force Now - Project Warrior - Vietnam Rescue Mission
Vietnamese in jungle. Hut burning. Vietnamese shooting. Portrait Ho-Chi-Minh (B/W)
American troops on foot, advancing, shooting. Helicopters.
Vietnamese firing gun (B/W). Hut on fire. US troops.
Plane rescue mission: in flight and strafing. Downed American pilot on ground (staged). Explosion in jungle. US plane strafing ground as helicopter waits.
Rescue pilot Bernie Fisher receives Medal of Honour from LBJ.
Huge explosions in jungle. Strafing from helicopter. Rescuer down on rope.
A-1E on airfield and takeoff.
Gravel-voiced narration
Vietnam War

1970s 220430 220430 220430 COL SD USA Vietnam 00:19:48 - 00:26:17 [Survival Training]
Air Force Chief of Staff General Lou Allen Jr. interviewed re improving AF employees.
CU hand grasps barbed wire .
Survival training course intercuts with reconstruction lost soldier walking through jungle and elephant grass (supposedly Vietnam) and being rescued by helicopter.
Briefing around campfire. Classroom teaching. Outdoors reading map; building hut in snow; radios demonstrated.

1970s LN 504-033 220368 LN 504-033 LN 504-033 COL SD USA, Vietnam 21:31:20 - 21:34:16 [Air Force Now - Medal of Honour]
Prisoner of War in North Vietnam awarded medal
Stills Colonel Day. Reconstruction plane shot down and pilot ejects from plane. Thru jungle at gunpoint and arrive at camp. Illustration Day in jail. Day interview re escape. Escape and pushed into water by two Vietnamese (recapture)
Actual footage release 13Mar1973 and arrival in USA.
Medal of Honour awarded 1976.
POW

1972 + 1983 220350 220350 220350 col Sd USA Vietnam Seymour Johnson AFB North Carolina 15:43:45 - 15:47:16 Air Force Now - Vietnam - Air Ace
Montage shots Vietnam intercut with stills.
15:44;17 F-4 Phantom taxis - Mig "kills" on side of plane - pilot and crew out of plane. Weapons officer Capt. Chuck Debellevue - second airman to become ace by shooting down five Migs. Aircraft in flight and shooting down Mig. Crew on ground interviewed.
15:44:46 Aug. 1983 Lt Col. Debellevue interviewed at Seymour Johnson AFB North Carolina. He tells of events in Vietnam over shots crew celebrating and painting " kill " on plane in Vietnam. Debellevue and Captain Ritchie - also ace. F-4 taking off and in flight. Shooting down Migs.
15:46:10 335th Tactical Fighter Squadron - montage shots training - aircraft in flight - war preparedness - operations control room - good aircraft in flight.

1972 LN 501-297 220800 220800 COL SIL Vietnam Hue 22:10:38 - 22:21:24 NVA Invasion of South Vietnam Part Two May 1972 - Some soft focus
Shots through fence of military vehicles and tanks passing. Tracking shot past abandoned military vehicles.
22:11:21 Bridge. Pan round tanks etc. Locals on bicycle and motorcycle. Abandoned vehicles. Two soldiers relax.
22:13:21 Troops out of truck. Vietnamese troops march down road. Volunteers forming up. Two very young boys with guns. Guard of honour with flags, one flagbearer with long white beard and many medals.
22:16:24 American CORDS personnel watching. Vietnamese officer troops the line.
22:17:10 Vietnamese flag raising ceremony. Various shots Americans and civilians.
22:18:40 LS, troops marching through streets of Hue and crossing bridge. MS, Military band. MS, Honor Guard passes watched by locals.

1972 LN 501-297 220800 220800 COL SIL Vietnam Hue 22:00:06 - 22:10:36 NVA Invasion of South Vietnam May 1972 Some soft focus
ARVN troops in streets of Hue. Vietnamese children sitting on gun. ARVN tank moving over road. LS, pan, ARVN compound. Truck convoy lined up in street. Truck convoy up and past. South Vietnamese troops digging in at base hqts. Tracking shot from lorry past walking soldiers. Troops on either side of road walk towards camera.
22:02:50 Military vehicles on side of road. ARVN soldiers filling sandbags.
Barely visible F4 Phantom jet making bombing runs. Smoke rising from bombs.
ARVN APCs moving into position on road.
22:05:28 CU, refugees board two 1/2 ton trucks. CU, refugees including children loaded in truck. Travel shot from truck passing refugees walking on road. Refugees disembarking from trucks with belongings.
22:08:31 Military police being falling in outside building. Sign on Hqts bldg: "BCH Tieu-Khu Thua-Thien."
Vietnamese flag tilt down to three ARVN APCs parked in citadel.
22:09:16 Vietnamese flag being lowered.
22:09:35 President Nguyen Van Thieu coming out of Hqts bldg and walking past Guard of Honour to jeep. 22:10:00 Defences inside the citadel. Quiet road, native sitting on hut.
22:10:21 Military truck carrying troops, some injured. Tracking shot past wrecked vehicles.

1977 220371 220371 220371 COL SD VIETNAM, USA Randolph AFB, Texas 23:09:49 - 23:13:07 [Air Force Now - Monument to Soldiers lost in Vietnam Conflict]
Vietnam POWs released. POWs aboard plane.
Military cemetery. Military Funeral (Red River Valley Fighter Pilots Association). Monument with planes looking like crosses. Barry Goldwater?? Officer speech to dedicate monument to soldiers lost in Vietnam War. Uncovering plaque. Other officer speech. Military funeral. Planes fly over monument in slow motion.

1980 LN 504-014 220350 LN 504-014 LN 504-014 col Sd Philippines - Pacific Islands
Vietnam Philippines 16:04:06 - 16:09:56 Air Force Now - Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Service
May 1980 - American airman returns to Philippines - arrives in village in motorcycle taxi - greets locals. Villagers talking with airman. (excellent colour)
15:04:47 Library film Vietnam - Stretcher team run to helicoptor - casualties into ambulance.
15:05:21 Airman Wayne Fiske to camera re rescue work. Airman jumping from helicoptor - parachutes. Fiske walking through grassy field talking about his lfe in the military - says freedom in America has to be fought for quotes Daniel Webster.
15:06:42 Good shots as helicopter lands and search team wearing camouflage make their way through long grass. CU US soldier lying in grass with insect on face as "enemy" passes. Search team find man.
15:08:07 De-brief
15:08:19 CU crying Fillipino baby - Fiske tending to wound on baby's head. Fiske giving basic medical attention to villagers. He paid over $5000 of his own money to get doctors to help. (philanthropy / charity )
Fiske to camera. Fiske in shadow as voice over tells that in 1980 he was selected by the Chamber of Commerce as one of the ten outstanding young men of America.

1980's LN 504-023 220338 LN 504-023 LN 504-023 Colour Sd USA Arlington Cemetery Virginia 03:53:14 - 03:59:00
To Honor With Dignity
Arlington Military Cemetery - President Reagan at military funeral for the unknown soldier. Funeral service
02:52:28 Honour Guard training - drill - slow march. Indoor drill - marching.
02:53:45 Various ceremonial events with Honour Guards returning to funeral for the unknown soldier - coffin on gun carriage - military parading. Vietnam memorial - funeral - Vietnam veterans - Reagan lays wreath on coffin - ceremony overlaid with Reagan speech. Rifle salute fired.

1980s & 70s LN 504-035 220337 LN 504-035 LN 504-035 Colour Sd USA Vietnam George Air Force Base California 06:30:26 - 06:37:50 F-4G's - Wild Weasels + F-105 Jet Bomber - colour faded
AF officer in front of and talking about F-4Gs - Wild Weasels. Arty shots against sun around plane showing fuselage, missiles, engines etc. Weasels mission is to search and destroy surface to air missile (SAM) sites. 01:32:06 Aircraft taxiing - pilot talking about Wild Weasel missions. Air to ground shots bombing mission in Vietnam - explosions.
01:32:44 F-105 Jet Bomber in flight - dropping bombs over Vietnam. Aerial railroad bridge North Vietnam - bombs exploding on ground. Pilot in cockpit on ground talking about F-105 Jet Bomber and new electronic package it can carry. Mig fighter and F-105 on target screen - missile fired. F-4 coming in to land. Ground maintenance crew working on Wild Weasel aircraft. AF officers in class training for F-4G Weasel. Various shots at sunset of planes at base - two take off - jet engines - in flight.

1980s 220345 220345 220345 COL&B/W SD USA 09:53:10 - 09:53:59 Air Force Now - Coming Attractions
Eagle Keepers of First Tactical Fighter Wing at Langley AFB, Virginia
Project Warrior re Vietnam
Peacekeeper Missile

1980s 220350 220350 220350 col Sd USA 15:36:46 - 15:37:16 Air Force Now - Air Force 40th Anniversary
Short ad re first flying ace in Vietnam - Capt Steve Ritchie. 1972 Capt being congratulated after shooting down 5th Mig.

1980s 220355 220355 220355 COL SD USA, Vietnam 16:49:32 - 16:54:30 [Air Force Now - Project Warrior - Medal of Honor]
Native American Indian in silhouette at dawn and titles superimposed.
Winner Medal of Honour John Levitow narrates. Reconstruction of his heroic deeds in Vietnam follows:
AC-47 takeoff. Levitow aboard plane prepares and throws