Combat Operations, Hoi An, South Vietnam

Year Published: 1964

Creator: Department of Defense.

Format: 16mm/video file

Description: National Archives and Records AdministrationCombat Operations, Hoi An, South VietnamARC Identifier 31781 / Local Identifier 111-LC-52531 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). 1ST BATTALION, 6TH INFANTRY, 198TH LIGHT INFANTRY BRIGADE, AMERICAL DIVISION. Soldiers resting at base camp. Officer checks map (soft focus). Soldier sharpens bayonet. ANother man is sleeping next to him. MS, CU, soldier sharpens bayonet. (He has a large flower on his helmet). Soldier checks field gear. Soldiers relaxing. MS, CU, soldier reads comics. Soldier in foxhole reads birthday card. CU, C-ration can being heated on sterno stove. Soldier reads newspaper. Soldiers move down slope to rice paddy. Flight of UH-1Ds lands. Soldiers board the copters and they fly off. Soldiers run thru rice paddy; take cover behind dikes and prepare to assault village of Nghi Hai. Soldiers round up villagers. CU, captured Chinese-made rockets found on woman in village. Women and children huddled against hut. Soldier searches grass roof of hut. Officer examines Vietcong weapons and equipment found in village. Captured maps are checked. Soldier ties prisoner's hands behind his back. CU, prisoner with POW tag. Vietcong suspects lying flat on their backs. Captured equipment and clothing spread out on ground, Officer speaks over radio. Vietnamese interpreter talks with prisoners who are flat on their backs. Soldier lifts prisoner and leads him away from the group. Interpreter questions the Vietcong. Another prisoner is questioned. American soldiers look on. Soldiers look at a dead Vietcong. Soldiers keep watch on villagers huddled against hut. CUs, women and children. AVs, large clouds of smoke rising from burning huts.

Complete Record: National Archives and Records Administration Combat Operations, Hoi An, South Vietnam ARC Identifier 31781 / Local Identifier 111-LC-52531 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). 1ST BATTALION, 6TH INFANTRY, 198TH LIGHT INFANTRY BRIGADE, AMERICAL DIVISION. Soldiers resting at base camp. Officer checks map (soft focus). Soldier sharpens bayonet. ANother man is sleeping next to him. MS, CU, soldier sharpens bayonet. (He has a large flower on his helmet). Soldier checks field gear. Soldiers relaxing. MS, CU, soldier reads comics. Soldier in foxhole reads birthday card. CU, C-ration can being heated on sterno stove. Soldier reads newspaper. Soldiers move down slope to rice paddy. Flight of UH-1Ds lands. Soldiers board the copters and they fly off. Soldiers run thru rice paddy; take cover behind dikes and prepare to assault village of Nghi Hai. Soldiers round up villagers. CU, captured Chinese-made rockets found on woman in village. Women and children huddled against hut. Soldier searches grass roof of hut. Officer examines Vietcong weapons and equipment found in village. Captured maps are checked. Soldier ties prisoner's hands behind his back. CU, prisoner with POW tag. Vietcong suspects lying flat on their backs. Captured equipment and clothing spread out on ground, Officer speaks over radio. Vietnamese interpreter talks with prisoners who are flat on their backs. Soldier lifts prisoner and leads him away from the group. Interpreter questions the Vietcong. Another prisoner is questioned. American soldiers look on. Soldiers look at a dead Vietcong. Soldiers keep watch on villagers huddled against hut. CUs, women and children. AVs, large clouds of smoke rising from burning huts.