| Vietnam Action | ||
|---|---|---|
| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1761 |
| Catalog #: | 425900 | |
| Clip Number: | 425900-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 040-041-01 | |
| Timecode: | ||
| Location: | Huong Hoa Air Base, South Vietnam | |
| Year Shot: | 1967 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | CROWDS: Misc. LOCATIONS/SOUTHEAST ASIA: Vietnam (Indochina), South Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) MILITARY: Marines, US WAR & CONFLICT: Battle WAR & CONFLICT: Casualties WAR & CONFLICT: Prisoners, POW WAR & CONFLICT/VIETNAM: Battle WAR & CONFLICT/VIETNAM: Bombing WAR & CONFLICT/VIETNAM: Saigon WAR & CONFLICT/VIETNAM: Vietcong | |
| Description: | Sprawling Huong Hoa Air Base target for Viet Cong rockets blasted an air plane hanger and a smaller air strip just north of the capital city of Saigon. In back and forth fighting, U.S. airbases are blasted by Vietcong; U.S. Marines clobber the enemy at Hills 861 and 881; Marine pilots blast Cong missile sites violating the neutral zone; and Marine ground troops clear a VC village. In all, close to 12 hundred enemy killed. Camera panning - Huong Hoa Air Base and jet planes parked on the tarmac. MS - A destroyed air plane hanger. MS - A small crowd of air base personal gather to look over the aftermath of the bombing. CU - A soldiers shoe laying among the rubble. MS - A soldiers bunk bed sitting in the mist of a destroyed building. LS - Smoke rising from the Vietnam hills. A explosion takes place and a cloud of black smoke rises. Rear shot medium - Two fully dressed for combat soldiers walking through the field in the foreground you can see bombs exploding. "Operation Baker" US Marines meet up with a communist attack at a point blank range. MS - Marines and tanks, High Angle shot - Viet Cong prisoners taken, a Marine holds one by the arm leading him through some high grass land. CU - A Marine handing another Marine confiscated communist weapons. CU - Marine standing with one of the assault weapons that were confiscated from the Viet Cong. Medium High Angle shot - Two dead Viet Cong laying on the ground. CU - US Marine tank with soldiers sitting on top of the tank with their machine guns at the ready. | |
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