Know Your Enemy: The Viet Cong (1968)

I mean his organs rapid again which is the jeribai to see you work dude wants to go near the Cambodian border 73rd airborne forget many of the blue I can see themselves sequence retaking behind enemy lines first origins of the VC in combat these themes of preparation and action we're probably but they do show the Vietcong fund and prisoners will be taken the registers the attack attack is against an American armored personnel carrier bring the battle or marched barefoot through the jungle trees of newsreel sequences on Vietcong attacks against allied units of Vietnam with China the first time you fractured equipment the South Vietnamese forces walk into the ambush and the Vietcong opened fire this next sequence the Vietcong company commander plots an all-out attack against a small South Vietnamese Hamlet the bugler once again sounds the charge on the settlement the Communists have undergone grueling physical training and they're identified as members of the civilian irregular defense guards and the tenth Vietnamese government Army division the PWS as in the earlier sequence are marched off for interrogation with the battle one it's important to remember that the film you've seen and will see is Vietcong propaganda its purpose is to show you one side the Communist side of the conflict in the Republic of Vietnam at the same time it does provide a realistic insight into the motives and the methods of the VC now we've seen the enemy in combat now let's look at another side of the Communist war effort in South Vietnam in the area of operations that shows the Vietcong work in the fields of logistics and demolition much of the food weapons and equipment used by the Vietcong is transported into technical areas by walking the material across the country here bags of rice are carried across a river and into the jungle women many of them half of the communist transportation force another of the Prime prisoners are generally thorough in their utilization of captured weapons and equipment demolition experts disassemble unexploded bombs and removed their destructive contents blacksmiths then use the metal to make grenade casings and gun barrels in the guerrilla warfare that the Vietcong are waging nothing is wasted everything is utilized train that has been derailed is grim witness to the effectiveness of the VC tactics Tigers placed at the joints of the rails on both sides of the track can tear open gaps that are undetectable at a distance and will almost certainly cause a derailment here with the aid of a model bridge a Vietcong instructor briefs a communist guerrilla before sending them out with the demolition team the explosive charge is prepared by other members of the guerrilla unit the VC moved through the jungle toward their objective the Communists adapt their ways to the war they must fight booby-traps are fashioned by hand and planted at night outside the perimeter of u.s. and South Vietnamese camps up to now we've been through the eyes of the Communist camera at the battle front of the Vietcong in this sequence now we're going to focus on various propaganda and non military activities of the enemy will tour war zone see with Chinese communist correspondence visit the BC printing office explore an underground hospital and watch a propaganda lecture by a four-star North Vietnamese Army General who's the political officer and commanding general of the self-proclaimed South Vietnamese Liberation Army this third segment of our captured Vietcong newsreels opens with banners and signs welcoming Communist Chinese riders on their arrival for a tour of qazvin facilities in war zone see there is the customary exchange of toasts between the guests and their hosts and is part of the welcoming reception the representatives of the two communist nations the communist correspondents visit a printing plant that publishes the Vietcong Liberation's paper and other propaganda leaflets and literature they watch the setting of tight by a VC craftsmen and they see the operation of the primitive press by the printer and his apprentice the North Vietnamese Army when these films were made the general was the political officer and commanding general of the Communist army in South Vietnam here general Thanh walks among the wounded talking with them and listening to them continuing his tour of the underground facilities the general commends the hospital staff for its contributions to the Vietcong war effort general Thanh has a final visit and a word with a wounded BC soldier pledging continued reinforcements and communist support from the north now a meeting of qazvin officials held to plan the winter spring offensive of 1967 and to bolster troop morale for these campaigns the featured speaker is the chief of the political section of Cosman Brigadier General Truong doe the general tells the troops that there are 400,000 men in North Vietnam that can be sent south to aid the Viet Cong forces in conclusion he promises that North Vietnam will never negotiate for peace until it has achieved a measure of victory in combat that can be used as a bargaining power in such negotiations this then is the challenge posed by the Vietcong and her supporters in South Vietnam we've seen from their own motion pictures that they're resourceful disciplined ruthless determined alert to this threat aware of this danger South Vietnam and her allies must meet and defeat the enemy challenge for in this confrontation between communism and freedom only one can prevail which one it'll be is simply stated why free men fight in the Republic of Vietnam