MINES AND BOOBY TRAP COURSE, CU CHI, SOUTH VIETNAM

Year Published: 1963

Creator: Department of Defense.

Format: 16mm/video file

Description: National Archives and Records AdministrationMINES AND BOOBY TRAP COURSE, CU CHI, SOUTH VIETNAMARC Identifier 31749 / Local Identifier 111-LC-52474 1967Department 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). Instructor showing students booby traps. Soldiers are briefed before entering course. Students enter the course. VS, instructor talking to students seated in stand. CUs, booby traps and mines laid out on table. Instructor with class. Vietcong weapon is passed through the class. Student enters booby trap display area. CUs, various types of punji traps. Students exits from display area. Signs in display area. MS, mock cemetery. CU, gravestone inscribed : "Could This Be You." Explosion by sign "Boobytrap." Board listing VIP casualties headed by Gen. William C. Westmoreland. Sign at entrance to course area. Officer describes purpose of the school. Students going thru the course. Instructor explains one of the traps to the students. Students continue along trail of the course. Instructor explains another trap to the students. MS, mock grave marker with smoke billowing around it. Zoom in on word: "Yours".

Complete Record: National Archives and Records Administration MINES AND BOOBY TRAP COURSE, CU CHI, SOUTH VIETNAM ARC Identifier 31749 / Local Identifier 111-LC-52474 1967 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). Instructor showing students booby traps. Soldiers are briefed before entering course. Students enter the course. VS, instructor talking to students seated in stand. CUs, booby traps and mines laid out on table. Instructor with class. Vietcong weapon is passed through the class. Student enters booby trap display area. CUs, various types of punji traps. Students exits from display area. Signs in display area. MS, mock cemetery. CU, gravestone inscribed : "Could This Be You." Explosion by sign "Boobytrap." Board listing VIP casualties headed by Gen. William C. Westmoreland. Sign at entrance to course area. Officer describes purpose of the school. Students going thru the course. Instructor explains one of the traps to the students. Students continue along trail of the course. Instructor explains another trap to the students. MS, mock grave marker with smoke billowing around it. Zoom in on word: "Yours".