This 1965 propaganda film was produced by the U.S. Naval Photographic Center and looks at the first day of Operation Piranha, which took place on the Batangan Peninsula in Vietnam. The Marines landed largely unopposed and began patrolling through the countryside and going into villages to find Viet Cong soldiers. They eventually find them through their underground tunnel network and begin trying to collapse these through intense barrages. The film ends with footage of captured Viet Cong being taken to POW camps.

00:00 soldiers helping another soldier out of a trap in South Vietnam, 0:35 “The Battle,” 0:49 ships firing onto land targets, 1:43 an armada of landing craft moving in the water during Operation Piranha on the 7th of September 1965, 2:21 Marines landing on the beach in Batangan, 3:01 Marines boarding UH-34 Sikorsky helicopters, 3:40 UH-34s flying over South Vietnam, 4:28 UH-34s flying South Vietnamese troops into position, 4:53 Marines patrolling different environments looking for Viet Cong soldiers, 5:32 Marines gather civilians to evacuate them and to interrogate them for information, 6:30 Marines in combat, 6:55 shots of Marine camps in the dark on the first night, 7:14 Marines entering a Viet Cong Cave, 7:20 Marines firing at mountains to collapse Viet Cong tunnels, 7:48 Douglas A-4 Skyhawks taking off, 8:09 A-4s in the air on standby for ground support, 8:57 a KC-130 Hercules in the air helping to coordinate air strikes, 9:24 Marines wading through water, 10:00 Marines taking Viet Cong Soldiers prisoner as they search through caves, 11:21 Viet Cong prisoners tied together by rope being marched to a POW camp, 12:08 Marines speaking to villagers in a village, 12:51 Marines wading through a river, 12:58 an A-4 bombing a target on the ground, 13:12 MH-10278 C 1965 US Naval Photography Center

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