ARVN Airborne repell Vietcong attack, Saigon, South Vietnam

Year Published: 1964

Creator: United States Information Service

Format: 16mm/video file

Description: National Archives and Records AdministrationARVN Airborne repell Vietcong attack, Saigon, South VietnamARC Identifier 31921 / Local Identifier 111-LC-52748 1968Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations. U.S. Army Audiovisual Center. (ca. 1974 - 05/15/1984). Silent. ARVN soldiers under cover along wall of the French National Cemetery. ARVN soldiers make their way across cemetery. American officer firing M-16 rifle along with Vietnamese soldier from behind cemetery wall. Dead Vietnamese soldier on litter. Burning building. ARVN soldiers behind wall with rifles at the ready. ARVN soldiers carry dead comrade on litter to ambulance. ARVNs in ditch. Wrecked building and burning rubble in cemetery. ARVN soldiers drive off in vehicles. Vietnamese soldier with M-60 MG at corner of building. ARVN soldiers tie and search Vietcong prisoner. Another Vietcong is given packet of food. CU, faces of ARVN soldiers. CU, Vietcong prisoner's hands tied behind his back. Vietnamese soldier feeds prisoner. Dirty Vietcong eating. ARVNs watch. CU, Vietcong. CU, ARVN soldier. A wounded Vietcong stands in sewer system manhole with hands over his head. He steps out of the manhole. CU, dirty, bleeding feet of Vietcong. ARVN soldier holds up captured rifle. Prisoner is searched and questioned. VS, damaged and burning houses. LS, smoke pouring from building. Vietnamese soldier speaks over radio. ARVN soldiers run across intersection and take cover behind wall in Esso service station. Smoke coming from bldg in bg. ARVN soldiers behind wall of cemetery. Burning and wrecked houses. Vietnamese soldier aims rifle thru gate of cemetery. Ambo-jeep drives past. ARVNs firing weapons (overexposed). Shell service station bldg burning furiously. Smoke pours from the building. ARVN soldier fires cal MG mounted on truck into houses. Shell service station burning. Dead Vietcong strewn about in street. ARVN fires 50 cal MG from truck. Dead Vietcong. Burning building. ARVN soldiers in foreground. Smoke pouring from building. Household effects lining streets. ARVN soldier fires his weapon down alley. Vietnamese soldiers search Vietcong bodies. Captures rocket shell. ARVN soldier at 50 cal MG, another with M-16 rifle at the ready. CU, picture of little girl taken from body of Vietcong. ARVN soldiers checks papers. CU, Vietcong propaganda leaflet found on the body.

Complete Record: National Archives and Records Administration ARVN Airborne repell Vietcong attack, Saigon, South Vietnam ARC Identifier 31921 / Local Identifier 111-LC-52748 1968 Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations. U.S. Army Audiovisual Center. (ca. 1974 - 05/15/1984). Silent. ARVN soldiers under cover along wall of the French National Cemetery. ARVN soldiers make their way across cemetery. American officer firing M-16 rifle along with Vietnamese soldier from behind cemetery wall. Dead Vietnamese soldier on litter. Burning building. ARVN soldiers behind wall with rifles at the ready. ARVN soldiers carry dead comrade on litter to ambulance. ARVNs in ditch. Wrecked building and burning rubble in cemetery. ARVN soldiers drive off in vehicles. Vietnamese soldier with M-60 MG at corner of building. ARVN soldiers tie and search Vietcong prisoner. Another Vietcong is given packet of food. CU, faces of ARVN soldiers. CU, Vietcong prisoner's hands tied behind his back. Vietnamese soldier feeds prisoner. Dirty Vietcong eating. ARVNs watch. CU, Vietcong. CU, ARVN soldier. A wounded Vietcong stands in sewer system manhole with hands over his head. He steps out of the manhole. CU, dirty, bleeding feet of Vietcong. ARVN soldier holds up captured rifle. Prisoner is searched and questioned. VS, damaged and burning houses. LS, smoke pouring from building. Vietnamese soldier speaks over radio. ARVN soldiers run across intersection and take cover behind wall in Esso service station. Smoke coming from bldg in bg. ARVN soldiers behind wall of cemetery. Burning and wrecked houses. Vietnamese soldier aims rifle thru gate of cemetery. Ambo-jeep drives past. ARVNs firing weapons (overexposed). Shell service station bldg burning furiously. Smoke pours from the building. ARVN soldier fires cal MG mounted on truck into houses. Shell service station burning. Dead Vietcong strewn about in street. ARVN fires 50 cal MG from truck. Dead Vietcong. Burning building. ARVN soldiers in foreground. Smoke pouring from building. Household effects lining streets. ARVN soldier fires his weapon down alley. Vietnamese soldiers search Vietcong bodies. Captures rocket shell. ARVN soldier at 50 cal MG, another with M-16 rifle at the ready. CU, picture of little girl taken from body of Vietcong. ARVN soldiers checks papers. CU, Vietcong propaganda leaflet found on the body.