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10:00:00

F05284

Saigon: Khanh press conference

2/2/1964

GENF0895

0:39

Recall: 137A690U2

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Syndication

Various interior shots showing journalists at a press conference as Lt-General Nguyen Khanh and his principal South Vietnamese army colleagues arrive in the conference room, various of Khanh speaking to the present: also present wearing glasses is the South Vietnamese army chief of staff, General Tran Van Minh.

Storyline: Lt-General Nguyen Khanh, South Vietnam's new strong man, holds a press conference in Saigon.

10:00:45

F04349

Saigon: Anti-Communist Demonstration (sic)

21/7/1964

GENF0837

1:17

Recall: 1Q821U2

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Various shots of Vietnamese civilians taking part in a pro-government demonstration held on 19th July 1964 in the centre of Saigon - the banners held by marchers and hung from buildings read 'We ask the Free World to come to our help in our North War March", "July 20th - our day of shame" and several anti-Chinese slogans.

Various shots of General Nguyen Khanh, the current South Vietnamese strong man, and other military leaders attending a ceremony with the US ambassador Maxwell Taylor, and a wreath-laying ceremony.

Various shots of the South Vietnamese army chief of staff, General Tran Van Minh, making a speech.

Various shots of Vietnamese youths riding on a motorised rickshaw carrying effigies of General de Gaulle and Ho Chi Minh and demonstrating in front of a part-vandalised French First World War memorial with placards in French reading 'Down with de Gaulle'.

Storyline: At a rally held on 19th July 1964 that coincided with the tenth anniversary of the signing of the 1954 Geneva Accords which divided Vietnam in two, the South Vietnamese regime whips up anti-French and anti-North Vietnamese opinion.

10:02:07

F02522

S. Vietnam: Ranger patrol

15/8/1964

GENF0700

0:33

Recall: 1Q290U2

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Syndication

Various shots of soldiers belonging to a South Vietnamese (ARVN = Army of the Republic of South Vietnam) Rangers unit armed with M-1 carbines with fixed bayonets looking for Viet Cong in rice-growing country and discovering a dead body lying face down in a paddy field..

Various of three Vietnamese Rangers looking at and examining the body of a male Vietnamese lying on his back.

Brief shot of two Rangers dragging another corpse out of a drainage ditch.

Storyline: South Vietnamese troops from an elite unit trained by the Americans track down Viet Cong guerrillas.

10:02:45

F05916

Saigon: Racial Riots

31/8/1964

GENF0931

0:57

Recall: 137A761U2

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Syndication

Various shots showing youths in a street in Saigon's Cholon District after a riot against the city's Chinese community, a Vietnamese soldier comforts a small child, various shots of a woman being filmed as she mourns a relative killed in the rioting and other Chinese mourners standing by a row of bodies wrapped in shrouds, the victims of anti-Chinese riots.

Various shots of youths armed with sticks, metal poles and other objects in a street in the Cholon district of Saigon and hurling furniture and lumps of wood at the police during a riot, South Vietnamese troops with fixed bayonets advancing on the rioters to disperse them.

Storyline: Anti-Chinese rioters take to the streets of Saigon to attack Chinese-owned properties during a period of chronic political unrest in the South Vietnamese capital.

10:03:48

F02734

Vietnam: Army success against Commies (sic)

18/9/1964

GENF0726

0:42

Recall: 1Q781U2

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Shots of a display organised for journalists at a South Vietnamese army barracks showing two male Viet Cong (VC) suspects, seen crouching on the ground looking fearful, and captured VC weaponry - a miscellany of bolt-action rifles, light machine-guns, a 57mm recoilless rifle and ammunition and a French-designed MAT-49 sub machine gun.

Storyline: To boost its own morale and prestige, the South Vietnamese army displays the results of one of its modest successes against the communist Viet Cong guerrillas.

10:04:35

F02576

S. Vietnam Strikers' Protest

29/9/1964

GENF0705

0:46

Recall: 1Q759U2

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Various shots showing ordinary Vietnamese citizens on foot and in motor rickshaws marching in an anti-government demonstration in Saigon near the presidential palace (?), police forming up to deal with the demonstrators, students (?) brandishing banners taking part in anti-government protests on a building, a line of police blocking a street, foreign TV news cameramen and press recording the demonstration, a speaker, using notes, addresses the demonstrators.

Storyline: Strikers in Saigon voice their opposition to the US-backed regime of General Nguyen Khanh.

10:05:26

F05275

Vietcong troops killed in fighting

14/10/1964

GENF0894

0:37

137A685U2

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Various shots showing Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) or South Vietnamese soldiers putting captured Vietcong weaponry on display - a heterogenous collection of Soviet Moisin-Nagant bolt-action rifles, an American Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR) with spare magazines and bullets, a Soviet PPsh Model 1941 sub machine gun (seen being examined by two ARVN soldiers), a Czech ZBvz/30 light machine-gun. Various shots of six or so male corpses wrapped up in straw matting, allegedly Viet Cong guerrillas killed by the South Vietnamese army.

Storyline: A display of one of the South Vietnamese army's modest successes against the Viet Cong.

10:06:08

F03597

S. Vietnam: swoop on Vietcong

6/11/1964

GENF0768

0:41

Recall: 1Q780U2

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2 rolls - pos + dupe neg

Syndication

Various shots showing a the South Vietnamese flag flying over a South Vietnamese army barrack square, a Huey helicopter, its rotor blades still turning, in the square.

Aerial view of a hamlet in rice-growing country.

Various shots of two South Vietnamese army Rangers after they had disembarked from a helicopter, the body of a Viet Cong (VC) guerrilla killed in action with the South Vietnamese army.

Various interiors of a modest haul of captured VC weaponry on display inside a barrack hut.

Storyline: US training and equipment assist the South Vietnamese army (ARVN) in the war against the North Vietnamese-backed Viet Cong.

10:06:54

F03951

Saigon: Riots at schoolboys (sic) funeral

2/12/1964

GENF0812

0:50

Recall: 1Q03U2

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Syndication

Shots outside a cemetery in Saigon showing a Buddhist funeral procession for a youth killed by government security forces during a demonstration entering the cemetery past South Vietnamese soldiers on anti-riot duty and press photographers, various shots of a crowd of young people running up to the cemetery, two truckloads of soldiers arriving on the scene in dramatic fashion, young people climbing over the cemetery wall en masse to escape from the soldiers, shots of violent confrontation between the soldiers and the demonstrators - a young man is grabbed and kicked by a soldier in front of press photographers, various shots of youthful demonstrators being frog-marched by soldiers after being arrested.

Storyline: A violent confrontation takes place between anti-government demonstrators and South Vietnamese army soldiers during the funeral of a youth killed during a riot against the Khanh regime.

10:07:50

F03960

Vietnam: Operations against Vietcong

30/11/1964

GENF0812

0:52

Recall: 1Q03U2

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I roll - dupe neg

Syndication

Various shots of South Vietnamese mechanised infantry equipped with US-built M113 armoured personnel carriers taking part in a sweep against Viet Cong guerrillas, US-manned Sikorski UH-34D helicopters on the ground nearby, a US Special Forces advisor attached to the South Vietnamese armoured personnel unit hanging on to the sides of a Bell Huey helicopter, M113 armoured personnel carriers on the move.

Various shots of male corpses - allegedly dead Viet Cong guerrillas - lying on the ground and Viet Cong suspects, crouching and looking submissive, awaiting interrogation.

Storyline: US-equipped soldiers of the South Vietnamese army's 7th Division take part in a sweep for Viet Cong guerrillas in IV Corps' area of operations in the Mekong Delta.

10:08:47

F04011

Vietnam Premier visits wounded in Saigon

8/12/1964

GENF0815

0:51

Recall: 1Q104U2

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Syndication

Various shots of the entrance to a South Vietnamese army hospital in Saigon, various shots of the South Vietnamese civilian premier, Tran Van Huong, inspecting wards where South Vietnamese soldiers injured in the fighting with Viet Cong guerrillas are recovering from their wounds; one soldier seen sitting on a hospital bed with both of his legs amputated. Accompanying him are the medical staff and several local press photographers - at no stage is he seen talking to any of the army patients.

A shot of Tran Van Huong and medical staff walking outside a hospital ward protected from Viet Cong mortar fire by a row of small round objects.

Storyline: South Vietnam's prime minister, Tran van Huong, pays a visit to a South Vietnamese army hospital.

10:09:43

F03833

Vietnam: Hamlet formed for communal defence

9/1/1965

GENF0803

1:11

Recall: 1Q681U2

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Various shots showing a South Vietnamese Regional Forces militiaman on duty by a road block at the entrance to a protected village, an anti-personnel barrier forming the village perimeter in the background comprised of a mass of panji stakes (bamboo sharpened to a point) and a barbed wire fence, peasants carrying firewood on their backs pass the entrance to the village.

Various shots of women pounding rice (?) in large pestles in the communal cookhouse, three militiamen armed with M-1 carbines on sentry duty.

Various shots of South Vietnamese Regional Forces militiamen on patrol and checking a peasant for his identity papers, his papers are returned to him and he is allowed to proceed on his way.

Storyline: Scenes in one of the 4,000 strategic hamlets established by the US-backed Saigon government in an attempt to separate the rural South Vietnamese population from the Viet Cong.

10:11:00

F05592

End of Khanh power in Vietnam

27/2/1965

GENF0912

0:46

Recall: 137A708U2

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2 rolls - pos + dupe neg

Syndication

Note: the dupe neg is 18 seconds longer than the print.

Various interior shots of a press conference in Saigon where the South Vietnam's ambitious and flamboyant air force commander, Air Vice Marshal Nguyen Cao Ky, addresses the gathering of foreign and local press and TV journalists

Various shots showing Presidential Guards and South Vietnamese army troops on parade as Guards of Honour at Tan Son Nhut airport, a shot of a senior South Vietnamese official hanging a medal around the neck of General Nguyen Khanh, the army guard of honour presenting arms.

Various shots of journalists and senior South Vietnamese military officers and officials crowding around Khanh and his wife as they make their way across the airport tarmac to board a Pan Am Boeing 707 passenger jet, which is seen taxiing before taking off..

Storyline: General Khanh's time as South Vietnam's strong man comes to an end as he and his wife are allowed to go into exile by the new military junta in Saigon.

10:11:52

F03257

Vietnam: Australian troops arrive

4/6/1965

GENF0764

0:34

Recall: 1Q676U2

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Syndication

Shots showing soldiers serving with the 1st Battalion Royal Australian Regiment disembarking wearing the traditional Australian bush hats and US-style steel helmets and armed with NATO-standard Belgian FN 7.62mm semi-automatic rifles disembarking from a chartered Quantas Boeing-707 passenger liner at Bien Hoa air force base (AFB) and climbing on boarding US Army trucks, senior Australian army officers in conversation with a South Vietnamese army commander, an Australian army sergeant smoking a cigarette before boarding a truck, an Australian soldier next to his FN rifle and kitbag and a US Air Force man posing for a photograph on the airport tarmac.

Storyline: Following a decision by the Australian government in December 1964 to commit ground troops to the US war in Vietnam, the 1st Battalion Royal Australian Regiment commanded by Lt-Colonel I R Brumfield arrives at Bien Hoa air force base to serve alongside American combat troops.

10:12:31

F02655

South Vietnam's New Government

20/6/1965

GENF0714

1:22

Recall: 1Q761U2

B/W mute - 45 feet/1:22

Dupe neg

Syndication

Various exteriors of a public building in the centre of Saigon where the presidential guard is on parade in their ceremonial whites, a large crowd and a mass of Vietnamese and foreign TV and film cameramen and press photographers crowding around an invisible figure (presumably Head of State Nguyen Van Thieu) reviewing the guard of honour, South Vietnamese air force chief and premier Nguyen Cao Ky (slim and wearing a trim moustache) and other military commanders, Major-General Nguyen Chan Thi (?), commander of the 1st Corps military district, smiling and waving as he passes the camera.

Various interior shots inside the assembly hall of Ky, Thi (?) , Thieu and others standing to attention (as the national anthem is played) and sitting down with other members of the ruling ten-man military council, listening to an unidentified South Vietnamese general (the army chief-of-staff?) address the assembly, premier Ky speaking at the podium.

Exterior shots of the 10-man military council appearing on the balcony of the assembly hall.

Storyline: From among the ranks of junior to middle-ranking members of South Vietnam's officer corps referred to by the US embassy in Saigon as 'the Young Turks', two men - the charismatic and outspoken Nguyen Cao Ky and the apparently more stolid and mature Nguyen Van Thieu - emerge to become South Vietnam's new leaders.

10:13:49

F04862

Vietnam Signs of War

June 1965

GENF0869

2:48

Recall: 1Q99U2

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Syndication

Various shots showing South Vietnamese troops passing the scene of a VC ambush - an abandoned jeep and a 2 ½-ton truck - and filing along a country road past peasants going about their daily business and heading across country, collecting water for their water bottles from a stream and gingerly crossing a blown-up (?) bridge.

Various shots showing South Vietnamese soldiers on the hunt for Viet Cong guerrillas, carrying one of their men who has become a casualty on a stretcher, walking past a smoke flare set off to help a helicopter come to their aid, carrying a body wrapped in a shroud and loading it into a Bell Huey helicopter which is seen taking off.

Various shots showing South Vietnamese soldiers advancing through lush and overgrown tropical terrain and opening fire with their M-1 Garand rifles and Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR) when they believe they had made contact with the enemy, soldiers standing guard over Viet Cong suspects.

Storyline: Scenes showing soldiers serving with the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) in action in the Mekong Delta (?) as the war intensifies with the deployment of the first American combat troops in South Vietnam.

10:16:39

F04312

McNamara in Vietnam

20/7/1965

GENF084

0:33

Recall: 1Q823U2

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Various shots of US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara surrounded by US and South Vietnamese soldiers engaged in conversation with senior US Marine Corps officers.

Interior shot of US Marines listening to an officer giving a briefing with a sand table.

A shot showing US Marines armed with M-14 rifles moving in single file through the Vietnamese countryside.

Various shots of a small airstrip where McNamara and his entourage have put down in four Bell Iroquois Huey helicopters, McNamara is seen getting out of the nearest helicopter and talking to a senior US army commander and a US Air Force officer, a C-131 Caribou transport plane in the background.

Storyline: US Secretary of Defense Robert S McNamara, one of the principal architects of the US military involvement in Vietnam, visits the country shortly after the arrival of the first US combat troops in South Vietnam.

10:17:16

F05821

Vietnamese get US B-57 bombers

10/8/1965

GENF0926

1:00

Recall: 137A757U2

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1 roll - dupe neg

Syndication

Various shots taken at Tan Son Nhut airfield as a Martin B-57 Canberra light bomber, one of four such aircraft donated by the Americans to the South Vietnamese air force (VNAF = Viet Nam Air Force), taxis to its dispersal point, a VNAF pilot (possibly Major NN Bien, head of the small VNAF B-57 unit) descending from the cockpit, various shots of the VNAF pilot, US Air Force personnel and senior South Vietnamese and US officers attending a formal hand-over ceremony for the B-57s on the tarmac at Tan Son Nhut.

Various shots of another VNAF B-57 Canberra taxiing to its dispersal point and Vice Air Marshal Nguyen Cao Ky, VNAF chief and a leading member of the military junta in Saigon, climbing out of the cockpit and other VNAF commanders.

Various shots of the deputy US Ambassador in Saigon (?) and Ky making speeches in honour of the event; Ky's glamorous wife is seen sitting in a row behind the other VIPs, various shots of USAF and VNAF officer inspecting the weaponry a B-57 light bomber can carry.

Storyline: The Americans donate four light bombers to the fledgling South Vietnamese air force headed by South Vietnam's premier, Air Vice Marshal Nguyen Cao Ky.

10:18:22

F03119

South Vietnam: Combined Services Operation in Zone D

29/9/1965

GENF0753

0:52

Recall: 1Q670

B/W mute - 60 feet/1:34

23 feet/0:37

1 roll - dupe neg/pos

Syndication

1. Various shots showing South Vietnamese infantrymen advancing along a dirt road and views from an Australian-manned M113 armoured personnel carrier as it overtakes them, Australian-manned M113 APCs deploying on the same dirt road.

Various shots showing gunners from 173rd US Airborne Brigade riding on a battered Dodge truck with a 105mm howitzer in tow and making it ready for action and 'Kiwi' gunners from 161 Battery RNZA in action with Otaro L5 105mm howitzers.

2. Aerial view from the door of a US Marine Corps Sikorski UH-34D helicopter armed with an M60 light machine gun of another Sikorski helicopter on a landing zone atop a big hill occupied by the Marines, various of a Sikorski helicopter coming into land on the hilltop landing zone, a US Marine using a surveyor's theodolite, two Marines walking through the jungle and climbing up a ladder to an observation platform high up in a tree.

Storyline: (1) Australian and New Zealand soldiers in combat with the South Vietnamese army and the American 173rd Airborne Brigade in Combat Zone D in III Corps' zone of operations outside Saigon. (2) A US Marine Corps observation post in mountainous country in I Corps' zone of operations south of the Demilitarised Zone.

10:20:01

F05928

Korean Division leaves for Vietnam

15/10/1965

GENF0932

1:28

South Korea

Recall: 137A720U2

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Syndication

Various shots of an airfield in South Korea where a large formation of South Korean troops from the 'Fighting Tiger' Division are drawn up on parade, two jeeps carrying Park Chung Hee, the President of South Korea, and senior army commanders drive past the massed troops and young Korean schoolgirls sitting in rows.

Various shots of the South Korean president handing out a new battle standard to an officer from the division's colour party, who then marches back across the huge parade ground to rejoin his comrades.

Various shots of young girls and Korean military cadets in West Point-like uniforms, the divisional commander of the formation about to leave for Vietnam gives a speech and the troops marching past en masse with a large float carrying a Tiger, their divisional insignia.

Storyline: South Korea prepares to send more troops to South Vietnam to in support of the massive US military commitment there.

10:21:34

F05931

Saigon: More Australian Troops

14/10/1965

GENF0932

0:45

Syndication

South Vietnam, Saigon

Recall: 137A720U2

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Syndication

Various shots of Australian soldiers in bush hats marching in a parade in downtown Saigon, young Vietnamese women clutching floral garlands or lei with which to greet the Aussies, a banner spread high across a road, "The Vietnamese people and fighters cordially welcome their Australian comrades-in-arms". Various shots of Australian and South Vietnamese soldiers on parade with their senior officers, various shots of the Australian defence minister Philip Lynch and senior Australian and South Vietnamese officers reviewing a South Vietnamese army Guard of Honour.

A shot showing young Vietnamese women giving Australian soldiers floral garlands around their necks.

Storyline: A formal parade of Australian and South Vietnamese troops in Saigon for the Australian defence minister.

10:22:24

F03532

Vietnam: Rice Bowl campaign

4/12/1965

GENF0783

0:52

Recall: 1Q755U2

B/W mute - 32 feet/0:50

Dupe neg

Syndication

Various travelling shots taken from a Landrover manned by Australian troops (1st Battalion Royal Australian Regiment) and armed with M60 light machine gun on a pintle mount passing Vietnamese peasants and Australian soldiers by the roadside, overtaking a lorry overturned during a VC ambush (?) and encountering more Australian soldiers riding in another Landrover heading in the opposite direction.

Various shots showing two Australian soldiers blindfold two Vietnamese peasant women as a security measure before allowing them to walk past their camp,

Storyline: Australian troops on patrol in Phuoc Tuy province in III Corps' theatre of operations, South Vietnam.

10:23:22

F03527

Vietnam: Vietcong prisoners

3/12/1965

GENF0783

1:20

Recall: 1Q755U2

B/W mute - 50 feet/1:20

1 roll - dupe neg

Syndication

Shots of GIs from 173rd Airborne Brigade guarding Vietnamese mails seated under two canvas tents in a temporary prisoner cage, a GI in charge examining documents taken from prisoners.

Various shots showing Viet Cong suspects lined up on an airfield runway and being put onto a US Army de Havilland CV-2 Caribou transport plane by MPs serving with the American 173rd Airborne Brigade.

Storyline: Male Vietnamese peasants suspected of being Viet Cong members in the custody of the 173rd Airborne Brigade in III Corps' theatre of operations in the countryside outside Saigon.

10:24:46

F03871

Vietnam: Amphibious Assault

18/12/1965

GENF0806

0:57

Recall: 1Q779U2

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1 roll - dupe neg

Syndication

A brief shot showing a column of US-built M113 armoured personnel carriers somewhere in the Mekong Delta, a formation of Bell Huey helicopters flying overhead followed by combat scenes showing a South Vietnamese soldier on the far side of an irrigation canal hurling a grenade, soldiers on an M113 APC near a 75mm recoilless rifle round into the treeline 100 yards away, South Vietnamese infantrymen armed with M-1 Garand rifles and M-1 carbines fording the irrigation canal and attempting to advance towards the treeline.

Various shots of South Vietnamese soldiers, one armed with an M79 grenade launcher, dragging the body of a Viet Cong guerrilla (or a hapless male peasant caught up in the fighting) and looking at other corpses, a soldier picking up a grenade from a hole in the ground and clipping it to his belt.

Storyline: Soldiers of the 9th Division of the South Vietnamese army in action against Viet Cong guerrillas in IV Corps' zone of operations in the Mekong Delta.

10:25:49

F03458

Vietnam: Attack in Mekong (sic)

4/3/1966

GENF0778

0:39

Mekong Delta, Vietnam

Recall: 1Q803U2

B/W mute - 24 feet/0:39

1 roll - dupe neg

Syndication

Various shots of US Army Bell Huey helicopters dropping off South Vietnamese army infantry at a landing zone (LZ) somewhere in the Mekong Delta, South Vietnamese artillerymen firing three rounds from their 105mm M101 howitzer, and setting the fuses on their 33-pound shells, Huey helicopters flying away from the LZ after dropping off their human cargo.

Various shots showing South Vietnamese army Rangers armed with M-1 carbines bringing in three Viet Cong (VC) suspects, their arms tied behind their backs, the commander of the South Vietnamese army unit poring over a map, two VC suspects being blind-folded by Vietnamese army Rangers.

Storyline: A typical 'search and destroy' mission by the South Vietnamese army (possibly the 9th Division) in the fiercely-contested Mekong Delta.

10:26:34

F03514

Vietnam: Operation 'Crunch'

22/3/1966

GENF0782

1:28

Recall: 1Q798U2

B/W mute - 53 feet/1.28 minutes

1 roll - dupe neg

Syndication

Various shots of South Vietnamese army-manned US-built M113 armoured personnel carriers negotiating an irrigation canal.

Various shots showing frightened Vietnamese peasants being interrogated by an army officer and being led away by the soldiers, an old woman who had hidden in a covered dug-out being told to come out.

Various shots showing a South Vietnamese soldier about to hurl a hand grenade, soldiers drag a dead body out of a water-filled paddy field and discover a live Viet Cong guerrilla hiding nearby.

Storyline: A glimpse of the disruption the war causes in the Vietnamese countryside during one of many 'search and destroy' missions mounted by the 9th South Vietnamese Division in the Mekong Delta.

10:28:08

F03353

Saigon: Buddhist demonstration

1/6/1966

GENF0770

0:42

Syndication

Vietnam

Recall: 1Q61U2

B/W mute - ? feet/0:42

1 roll - dupe neg

Syndication

Various shots of Buddhist monks and their supporters on a protest march against the Saigon government led by Air Vice-Marshal Ky, being stopped by South Vietnamese army soldiers, seen here armed with M-2 carbines and an M-79 grenade launcher.

Various shots of the Buddhist monks and other demonstrators sitting down in the street in front of a coil of barbed wire blocking their way and chanting prayers.

Storyline: Buddhist monks, customarily at the forefront of demonstrations against the US-backed South Vietnam government, take to the streets of Saigon after the dismissal of a senior Buddhist army commander in Da Nang.

10:28:56

F05177

Philipine (sic) troops for Vietnam

20/8/1966

GENF0889

0:54

The Philippines

Recall: 137A656U2

B/W mute - 34 feet/0:54

1 roll - dupe neg

Syndication

Various shots showing a Filipino army sergeant wearing a bush hat kissing his wife goodbye at Manila airport or Clark Air Force Base, she and their child looking upset at saying goodbye.

Various shots showing senior American and Filipino politicians and army commanders on hand to bid the troops farewell, another soldier kissing his wife or girlfriend goodbye.

Various shots showing Filipino troops shouldering kit bags boarding a US Air Force C-130 Hercules transport plane rigged up as a troop-carrier, one soldier carrying a small guitar in his hand.

Various shots of relatives waving goodbye to their menfolk from the edge of the airfield, the engines of the C-130 Hercules starting up and preparing for take off.

Storyline: In cooperation with America's other allies in East Asia and Australasia, the Philippines government despatches a formation of 2,000 soldiers, designated the Philippines Civic Action Group, to South Vietnam.

10:29:56

F02059

South Vietnam: Australians show captured weapons

13/10/1966

GENF0662

0:44

Recall: 1Q791U2

B/W mute - 27 feet/0:44

1 roll - dupe neg

Syndication

A travelling shot from an Australian-manned M113 armoured personnel carrier fitted with a Browning .50 calibre machine gum in an armoured shield as it motors past Vietnamese peasants on the road at Nui Dat (?) followed by various shots of Australian soldiers from the Royal Australian Regiment organising a display of weapons captured during 'search-and-destroy' missions against local Viet Cong guerrillas in the local market place. The weapons include a home-made light mortar (?), Soviet-designed RPD 7.62mm light machine guns and a heavy DshKM 38/46 12.7mm machine-gun on a wheeled mounting, a South Vietnamese soldiers peaking into a microphone as he provides a commentary in Vietnamese for the display.

Various shots of Australian officers, with a US army officer, visiting the local market place in Nui Dat (?)

Storyline: Australian soldiers with the 1st Australian Task Force put captured Viet Cong weapons on public display in Phuoc Tay province.

10:30:47

F06016

Vietnam: Australians round up villagers

11/11/1966

GENF0937

0:44 minutes

Recall: I37A739U2

B/W mute - 27 feet/0:44

1 roll - dupe neg

Syndication

Various shots showing two M1113 armoured personnel carriers (APCs) crewed by 1st APC Squadron, Royal Australian Armoured Corps, motoring through a Vietnamese village and infantrymen from the 6th Battalion Royal Australian Regiment armed with NATO-standard Belgian FN rifles rounding up women and children and searching empty huts for any stray Vietnamese civilians and escorting them to a holding area.

Various shots showing Australian soldiers putting Vietnamese civilians into an improvised holding area surrounded by coils of barbed wire, young Vietnamese men being put into the back of an M113 APC for questioning elsewhere, the crew of the armoured personnel carrier in their vehicle, with its commander smoking a cigarette.

Storyline: Australian soldiers based in Phuoc Tay province round up Vietnamese peasants suspected of harbouring Viet Cong guerrillas during Operation 'Ingham'.

10:31:36

F05767

Vietnam: Aussies search for VC

18/11/1966

GENF0923

2:03

Recall: 137A734U2

B/W mute - 101 feet/2:03

1 roll - dupe neg

Syndication

Various shots showing a busy road filled with military traffic and a GMC truck filled with male Vietnamese civilians at Vung Tau, soldiers from either the 5th or 6th Battalion Royal Australian Regiment armed with Belgian FN automatic rifles guarding Vietnamese males as they disembark from an M113 armoured personnel carrier (APC) and the GMC truck at a sports ground.

Various hots showing Australian soldiers guarding the males - roughly forty of them - who are made to crouch on the ground in rows of five, Australian and South Vietnamese army intelligence officers interrogating several men.

Various of Vietnamese government officials taking down the details of women and children rounded up by Australian troops.

Storyline: Vietnamese villagers in Phuoc Tuy province are brought in for interrogation by troops serving with the 1st Australian Task Force.

10:32:50

F06059

Vietnam: Bob Hope and Miss World entertain troops

24/12/1966

GENF0940

0:52

Recall: 137A732U2

B/W mute - 32 feet/0:52

1 roll - dupe neg

Syndication

Various shots showing the US comedian Bob Hope, wearing a bright floral shirt, stepping out of a US Army jeep as he arrives for another USO show for American troops at Cam Ranh Bay, American servicemen flooding in from the surrounding area to watch the show.

Various shots of Bob Hope armed with a golf club doing his stand-up routine and bringing on Reita Faria, the current Miss World and also Miss India, dressed in a sari. Hope doing a song-and-dance act with Joey Heatherton, a pretty woman in a halter neck dress.

Storyline: 25 years after his first USO concert during the Second World War, the veteran US comedian Bob Hope does his third Christmas tour of Vietnam.

10:33:48

F06113

Vietnam: Aussies screen village population

19/1/1967

GENF0944

1:20

Recall: 137A696U2

B/W mute - 50 feet/1:20

1 roll - dupe neg

Syndication

Various shots showing Australian infantrymen from the 5th or 6th Battalion Royal Australian Regiment armed with NATA-standard Belgian FN rifles in single file, an RAR officer in conversation with two US liaison officers from II Field Force, Australian soldiers advancing through thick jungle.

Various shots showing Australian troops supervising the evacuation of a prosperous-looking Vietnamese hamlet of all its inhabitants and Vietnamese peasants wheeling bicycles and carrying their portable belongings being escorted by Australian soldiers to a holding centre.

Various shots showing South Vietnamese army interpreters taking down the details of some of the people rounded up by the Australians, Australian troops uncoiling barbed wire and driving stakes into the ground to make a holding pen.

Various shots showing South Vietnamese soldiers counting the numbers of people who file past them into the holding pen, an old woman chatting to a young man, a soldier giving a cup of water to a peasant woman seen with a large number of other women sitting down on the ground.

Various shots showing an Australian soldier carrying a young woman who is struggling to get free into a holding pen, followed by her child who is upset by all the commotion, a line of Vietnamese civilians leaving the holding pen and allowed to go home.

Storyline: Australian troops attempt to extend their control of Phuoc Tuy Province by screening Vietnamese villagers for Viet Cong members and sympathisers.

10:35:14

F04369

S. Vietnam: Marines capture VC supplies

15/2/1967

GENF08338

0:41

Recall: 1Q830U2

B/W mute - 25 feet/0:41

1 roll - dupe neg

Syndication

Various shots showing Vietnamese civilians helping US Marines pour rice into a sack (seen held by a black US Martine), lifting bags of rice from a large stockpile, removing bags of rice from a straw and mud hut used by the local Viet Cong guerrillas as a rice storage depot and sacks of rice into the back of a Boeing Chinook helicopter.

Storyline: Captured Viet Cong rice in the hands of the US Marines in I Corps' zone of operations south of the Demilitarised Zone.

10:36:00

F06127

Vietnam: Captured Vietcong Arms Ship

21/7/1967

GENF0945

1:24

Recall: 137A3833U2

B/W mute - 52 feet/1:24

1 roll - dupe neg

Syndication

Various shots showing a small coastal freighter used by the North Vietnamese to smuggle weapons for the Viet Cong being put on display by the South Vietnamese government; its bridge and crew quarters show damage sustained during its capture by the South Vietnamese navy, senior South Vietnamese service chiefs headed by Air Vice-Marshal Ngyuyen Cao Ky seen inspecting the vessel and its armament of two DshKM 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine-guns, local Vietnamese people lining up to board the vessel.

Various shots showing the cargo of captured weaponry - SKS rifles, AK-47 assault rifles, Chinese-made 122mm mortar rounds and B-40 122mm rockets - on display and being examined by South Vietnamese head of state Nguyen Van Thieu, Thieu and Premier Ky reviewing a South Vietnamese naval Guard of Honour.

Various shots showing the South Vietnamese naval commander (?) making a speech and Ky decorating senior Vietnamese commanders.

Storyline: The capture of a North Vietnamese coastal freighter by the South Vietnamese navy is the occasion for much public rejoicing by the Saigon government.

10:37:29

F05984

South Vietnam: Election Protest

8/9/1967

GENF0935

1:10

Recall: 137A3927U2

B/W mute - 49 feet/1:10

1 roll - dupe neg

Syndication

Various shots showing Truong Dinh Dzu, opposition candidate in the South Vietnamese presidential elections being interviewed by local Vietnamese and foreign journalists on the steps of the National Assembly in the centre of Saigon in protest over the electoral victory of the armed forces' candidates, Nguyen Van Thieu and Nguyen Cao Ky.

Storyline: Truong Dinh Dzu, South Vietnam's only opposition leader of any stature, complains that the victory of President Thieu and Vice-President Ky in South Vietnam's presidential election held on the 3rd September 1967 was the result of corruption and ballot-rigging.

10:38:45

F04534

Saigon: DZU students (sic)

17/9/1967

GENF0848

0:52

Recall: 1Q98U2

B/W mute - 36 feet/0:52

Dupe neg

Syndication

Various shots of students putting up anti-government banners in the grounds of Saigon university protesting against the victory of President Thieu and Vice-President Ky and various shots of the leading figure in the opposition to the Thieu-Ky regime, Truong Dinh Dzu, being greeted by the students and joining them to listen to speeches inside a lecture hall.

Storyline: Students in Saigon's university rally to opposition leader Truong Dinh Dzu after his defeat in South Vietnam's presidential election on 3rd September 1967.

10:39:50

F04535

South Vietnam: Pacification (Mekong Delta: Flying Dragon)

17/9/1967

GENF0848

1:40

Recall: 1Q98U2

B/W mute - 60 feet/1:40

Dupe neg

Syndication

Various shots filmed from a Bell Huey helicopter in flight showing other US Army Huey helicopters flying over rice-growing countryside, the shots framed by the door gunner's M-560 light machine-gun, and South Vietnamese soldiers being dropped off at a Landing Zone (LZ).

Various shots of children and mothers with babies, who seem more curious than afraid, and three South Vietnamese soldiers bringing in a Viet Cong (VC) suspect whose arms have been tied behind his back.

Various shots of the VC suspect, along with several others, sitting on the ground, a US Army forward air controller (armed with an M-16 rifle) speaking into his radio set to call in a helicopter for the prisoners (damage to the film at this point), a US Army Bell Huey helicopter coming into land, the prisoners being put on board the helicopter and the helicopter flying low overhead.

Storyline: Soldiers of the 9th South Vietnamese Army Division, trained and equipped by the Americans, take part in a heliborne 'search and destroy' mission against the Viet Cong in the Mekong Delta.

10:41:36

F04536

South Vietnam: Pacification

18/9/1967

GENF0848

1:25

South Vietnam

Recall: 1Q98U2

B/W mute - 52 feet/1.25

Dupe neg

Syndication

A shot showing a joint US Marine Corps and Vietnamese Regional Forces militia patrol outside a US Marine Corps base in I Corps' zone of operations.

Various shots showing Vietnamese women washing their clothes by a river, three US Marines on rural pacification duty visiting a Vietnamese village market, greeting a Vietnamese child (who is not overwhelmed by their kindness.

Scenes inside a village clinic for mothers and children where a US Marine medic and local nurses help treat children with minor complaints.

Various shots showing US Marines diving from abridge into a river and swimming with some Vietnamese children.

Storyline: In its theatre of operations in the provinces south of the Demilitarised Zone, the US Marine Corps eschews the US Army's reliance on the unrestricted use of its massive fire-power in the rural areas and its 'search-and-destroy' strategy with a sophisticated 'hearts-and-minds' programme designed to weaken Viet Cong support among the Vietnamese population.

10:43:07

F04563

S. Vietnam: New Port: Thai Soldiers arrive

22/9/1967

GENF0849

1:39

Recall: 1Q808U2

B/W mute - 68 feet/1:39

1 roll - Dupe neg

Syndication

Various shots of an US attack transport, USS Navarro, coming into dock in New Port Army Terminal in Saigon's port area carrying the Royal Thai Army Volunteer Regiment to fight in South Vietnam and the Thai soldiers lining the ship's railings as it nears the quayside, a young Vietnamese woman posing for the camera with a floral garland or lei.

Various shots of the Thai commanding officer coming down a gangway and being greeted by General William Westmoreland, commander of all US ground forces in Vietnam and senior US and South Vietnamese officers and being decorated with the floral garland.

Various shots of the Thai regiment's colour party and carriers of their Buddhist shrine stepping ashore followed by the rest of the Thai soldiers shouldering kit bags and armed with M-1 carbines and M-16 automatic rifles. Various shots showing Thai soldiers climbing into the back of big US military lorries, the colour party still holding onto thieir regimental (?) banners.

Storyline: The first Thai combat troops sent to South Vietnam to fight alongside the Americans and their other allies arrive at Saigon.

10:44:51

F05738

South Vietnam, nr Tamy Ky: Operation Wallowa

24/10/1967

GENF0921

2:30

Recall: 137A39U2

B/W mute - 109 feet/2:30

2 rolls - pos + dupe neg

Syndication

Tracking shots from an M113 armoured personnel carrier (APC) showing US soldiers in other APCs armed with Browning .50 calibre machine guns in small open turrets advancing along a narrow trail through sand dunes covered in small pine (?) trees and coarse grass just behind the Vietnamese coastline.

Tracking shots from an M113 APC as it motors into a deserted Vietnamese hamlet. Various shots of GIs armed with M-16 automatic rifles searching abandoned slit-trenches concealed by straw, buckets, in which they find documents and clothing, and a hut for hidden weapons.

Tracking shots as a company of motorised infantry in M113 APCs advances across a paddy field, a shallow river estuary and along a sandy beach towards their next objective.

Various shots showing APCs motor through sand dunes covered in small pine trees and coarse vegetation where they make contact with enemy forces: various shots of dismounted riflemen and a gunner on board an M113 APC firing his Browning .50 calibre machine gun and then firing an M79 40mm grenade launcher, two lightly injured GIs - the second an Afro-American GI - make their way back to an APC for emergency treatment.

Various shots showing two M113s advance in line abreast; a GI on board another M113 sends tracer shot from an M60 light machine-gun into the undergrowth behind him while the gunner with the heavy Browning .50 calibre machine-gun hoses down the vegetation beside his vehicle; another rifleman fires five rounds with his M-14 automatic rifle as an M113 Browning machine-gunner provides covering fire.

Various shots on the beach, where GIs and their APCs are parked, a Bell UH-IC Huey helicopter arrives to evacuate some walking wounded and takes off

Various shots showing an HE bomb dropped from an unseen US fighter-bomber bursting on suspected enemy troops concealed in coarse grass on top of the beach several hundred yards away from two M113 APCs in the foreground and an F-105 Thunderchief dropping another bomb onto the suspected enemy position, resulting in a big explosion (109 feet).

Storyline:

Mechanised infantry with the US 23rd Americal Division undertake offensive operations in Quang Nam Province in I Corps' area of operations in order to destroy the 2nd NVA Division and local VC forces.

10:47:52

F03795

South Vietnam: Phuc Hoa Battle

29/10/1967

GENF0801

1.05 minutes

Recall: 1Q679U2

B/W mute - 40 feet/1:05

1 roll - dupe neg

Syndication

Various shots of the perimeter of the South Vietnamese camp at Phuc Hoa lined with dug-outs lined and roofed with corrugated iron which have been subject to a rigorous bout of enemy mortar fire - a US Army advisor briefly steps through one of the shots.

Various shots of the bodies of North Vietnamese army (NVA) sappers (?) along the camp's perimeter and Sourth Vietnamese army and air force personnel inspecting the grim scenes.

Various shots of captured Soviet or Chinese weaponry abandoned by the NVA attackers - Chinese-made stick grenades and mortar bombs, a portable flame-thrower used by enemy sappers and numerous RPD 7.62mm light machine guns, AK-47s and RPG-2 rocket-propelled grenades

Storyline: The aftermath of an unsuccessful attack by a well-armed North Vietnamese regular army unit against a South Vietnamese fortified position at Phuc Hoa in Tay Ninh Province in III Corps' area of operations in South Vietnam near the Cambodian border.

10:49:02

F02273

Vietnam: Aussie blow-up (sic)

18/11/1964

GENF0677

2:46

Recall: 1Q45U2

B/W - 104 feet/2:46

1 roll - dupe neg

Syndication

Various shots showing Australian soldiers on a 'search-and-destroy' mission investigating peasant dwellings in the jungle, examining the remains of an open fire and several bowls and a tea pot found at the site. Various shots of a soldier digging a hole in the ground to widen the entrance of a tunnel made by the narrow-hipped VC to fit the average-sized Australian whilst two of his comrades cut a length of demolition cable and prepare a demolition charge, various shots of the charge being lowered into the tunnel and the intrepid tunneller re-surfacing after placing the charge down below.

Various shots taken from a safe distance just after the demolition charge was detonated and several soldiers going forward to inspect the results.

Various shots showing preparations for the demolition of another tunnel, an Australian soldier referring to a map and making notes, a second and much bigger explosion deeper in the jungle as another VC tunnel is blown up.

Various of Australian soldiers standing around an M113 armoured personnel carrier and investigating another tunnel entrance.

Storyline: In Phuoc Tuy province outside Saigon, the Australians successfully harass and weaken the local Viet Cong guerrillas.

10:51:54

F03101

South Vietnam: nr Saigon: Christmas Truce

26/12/1967

GENF0752

2:12

Bien Hoa, South Vietnam

Recall: 1Q614U2

B/W mute - ? feet/2:12

Dupe neg

Syndication

1. Various shots showing a black US Army sergeant and South Vietnamese army soldiers staring at a number of captured Viet Cong male and female suspects who sit in rows in a crouching position and a varied collection of captured Viet Cong weapons - American M-1 Garand rifles, French Fusil 1907/1915 rifles and possibly Soviet 1891/30 rifles, small arms ammunition, a 57mm (?) recoilless rifle and several B-40 rocket warheads.

2. At 1st US infantry Division during the Christmas Day truce at Bien Hoa, South Vietnam - various shots of idle Huey helicopters and M113 armoured personnel carriers.

Various shots of white and black American soldiers reading mail from home in an 81mm mortar firing pit and inside a Nissen hut, where they are also seen opening Christmas presents and polishing a Colt 9mm automatic pistol.

Various shots showing sign on exterior of chapel building "1st Infantry Division Memorial Chapel", soldiers posing for the camera in front of a Nativity grotto featuring Joseph, Mary, the baby Jesus, the Archangel Gabriel and one of the Shepherds.

Storyline: 1. Captured VC suspects and weapons on display. 2. A truce in time for Christmas for GIs serving with US 1st Infantry Division "The Big Red One" in III Corps' zone of operations outside Saigon.

10:54:06

End