Vietnam Round-Up - Operation Pershing
This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA.	Tape Master:	1759
	Catalog #:	425820
	Clip Number:	425820-1
	Orginal Film:	040-031-02
	Timecode:	00:45:44 - 00:47:06
	Location:	Vietnam
	Year Shot:	1967 (Actual Year)
	Audio:	Yes
	Color:	No
	Headings:	CROWDS: Misc. LOCATIONS/SOUTHEAST ASIA: Vietnam (Indochina) MILITARY: Marines, US TRANSPORTATION/AVIATION: Helicopters WAR & CONFLICT: Guerrilla Warfare WAR & CONFLICT/VIETNAM: Aftermath WAR & CONFLICT/VIETNAM: Battle WAR & CONFLICT/VIETNAM: Casualties WAR & CONFLICT/VIETNAM: Refugees WAR & CONFLICT/VIETNAM: Vietcong
	Description:	"Operation Pershing knocks out a VC village in a search and destroy maneuver. Three war correspondents are wounded by a Cong booby trap as they travel a path south of Saigon. A skirmish on the Freedom bridge, linking North and South Vietnam makes the area a no-man's land. LS - Smoke rising from roof of village hut (no flames). TLS - Two U.S. Army soldiers armed with M-60 machine guns patrolling through village, passing group of villagers. TLS/MSs - Vietnamese refugees (women & children, many wearing conical palm leaf hats) walking toward cam with belongings. MS U.S. - Soldiers standing by side of road, tilt down to dead Viet Cong laying at their feet; TLS - Five G.I.'s holding M-16 rifles standing over body of dead VC; MS GI inspecting dead VC, seven soldiers standing in BG. MSs - ARVN soldiers walking with suspected Viet Cong prisoner. MS/CUs - Three wounded reporters (war correspondents) -- two South Vietnamese men & American David Snell -- lying in grass, waiting for transport. Nice MS - UH-1 medical helicopter landing. MSs - Wounded Vietnamese reporter on stretcher being loaded onto helicopter. LS - Freedom Bridge, linking North & South Vietnam. TLSs - Freedom Bridge, Vietnamese man wearing jeans & bush hat standing on quadrant. Low angle MS - Flag of South Vietnam billowing in wind. MSs - Artillery damage to Freedom Bridge. LS - Two men rowing boat on Ben Hai River.

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