USMC 104681: ""Khe Sanh, Victory for Air Power""

Item Description
Title
USMC 104681: ""Khe Sanh, Victory for Air Power""

Citation information
USMC 104681: ""Khe Sanh, Victory for Air Power"". (00118; FR-1009.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
04/868

Marine Corps Library Number
0000-16

Additional identifiers
00118; FR-1009

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 104681

Decade
1960

Date
1968-05

Description
A narrator recounts the details of the Battle of Khe Sanh, focusing on the combined air power of the Marine Corps and Air Force. Footage of marines firing weapons, aerial views from planes firing artillery and dropping bombs. Maj. Bill Loftus ejects from downed A4, followed by shot of his return--still walking-- to Khe Sanh. Marines unload and load USAF carrier aircraft. Footage of Air Force reconnaissance operations, insert shots of maps. Combat footage shows shelling, explosions, marines running to safety, and injured marines being loaded onto carrier aircraft. Marines put out fires in the wreckage of a downed plane. Supplies drop via parachutes. Footage of command operations inside an airborne battlefield command center (narrator notes that these are inside modified C130 aircraft). B52s drop bombs.

Location(s)
Kh� Sanh (Vietnam); Mactu-62 Airfield

Camera crew
United States Air Force; 600th Photo Squadron USAF; Aerospace Audio Visual Service, Military Airlift Command

Producing entity
United States Marine Corps (Production unit)

Genre
Informational

Item collection
United States Marine Corps Film Repository

Original color
Color

Original audio
Sound

Original gauge
Film: 16mm

Original generation
Postive

Original physical length
600

Original aspect ratio
1.37:1 (Academy)

Original media type
Motion pictures (visual works)

Language
English

Contributing organization
University of South Carolina. Moving Image Research Collections


Digital collection name
United States Marine Corps Films


Rights information
Public domain.

Digital media type
Moving Image

Date digital file created
05/02/2022

Digitization information
High definition access copy derived from a scan of a film original on a Lasergraphics ScanStation 6.5k

Digital runtime
16:09

Digital file type
video/H264

Keywords
Vietnam War