This Vietnam War U.S. Air Force newsreel from 1966 presents various scenes. It begins with F-105s operating in heavy monsoons against enemy targets. Severe flooding renders 6000 Vietnamese homeless, necessitating use of C-47s to transport vital supplies in to survivors. Da Nang Air Force Base is shown, with air force postal personnel working in the mail terminal. Tan Son Nhut Air Base is also shown with its big facilities. Operation Attleboro is also seen with C-5 transports operating to supply troops. Forward air control operations are seen in support of air strikes by F-105 Thunderchiefs and F-4 Phantoms.

Operation Attleboro was a Vietnam War search and destroy operation by the 196th Light Infantry Brigade. The operation was named after Attleboro, Massachusetts, where the brigade had been formed. Operation Attleboro turned out to be the largest series of air mobile operations to that time, involving all or elements of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade, 25th Division, 1st Infantry Division, and a brigade of the 4th Division, as well as numerous Army of the Republic of Vietnam and Regional Forces/Popular Forces and Nungs. In the end, the operation became a corps operation commanded by II Field Forces.

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