| Viet Cong Prisoners - Wounded Children - USS Repose | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1757 |
| Catalog #: | 425646 | |
| Clip Number: | 425646-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 040-009-05 | |
| Timecode: | ||
| Location: | Vietnam, Saigon | |
| Year Shot: | 1967 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | AGE GROUP/CHILDREN: School-age child CROWDS: Misc. HEALTH AND MEDICINE: Pediatrics HEALTH AND MEDICINE: Refugee & Disaster Relief LOCATIONS/SOUTHEAST ASIA: Vietnam (Indochina), South Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) TRANSPORTATION/BOATS & SHIPS: Hospital Ships WAR & CONFLICT: Prisoners, POW WAR & CONFLICT/VIETNAM: Medicine WEAPONS: Explosives WEAPONS: Firearms WEAPONS: Guns, Machine | |
| Description: | Viet Cong prisoners are taken after a V.C. regiment is crushed in the heaviest fighting near Saigon since the start of the war. Meanwhile, the hospital ship U.S.S. Repose cares for thousands of Vietnamese civilians and children in a tradition of mercy. Establishing shot - A crowd of young men (Captured Viet Cong prisoners) sitting on the ground surrounded by the South Vietnamese soldiers. CU - Confiscated weapons, grenades, riffles, ammunition and machine guns. CU - The soldiers are blindfolding the captured Viet Cong prisoners. MS - A medical helicopter is landing on a hospital ship the USS Repose with wounded Vietnamese children. MS - A sailor washing very gently a little Vietnamese boy. MS - Vietnamese children sitting in their hospital beds aboard the USS Repose. MS - Children being led on the deck of the USS Repose by a Naval Nurse. Aerial Shot - USS Repose. | |
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