This U.S. Army film shows American pilots flying missions in support of the South Vietnamese Army against the Vietcong, and profiles helicopters in use in Vietnam: the H-21 troop carrier and the UH-1A and UH-1B Armed Helicopters — equipped with machine guns, rockets and even (as the film shows) carbines. The film shows tactics and operations, field repair, and even some crashed helicopters being destroyed in the field to prevent them from falling into enemy hands. The film ends with a full-scale heliborne strike being described. The film shows tactics and operations, field repair, and even some crashed helicopters being destroyed in the field to prevent them from falling into enemy hands. The film opens with an ancient structure in South Vietnam (0:25). Panorama of a town in South Vietnam (0:32). Homes in South Vietnam (0:43). Thatched roofs being burned (0:54). Farmers transporting their harvest on donkeys’ backs (0:58). Terrain of South Vietnam (1:05). U.S. and Vietnamese soldiers talk to each other (1:15). Map (1:25). Shadow of a H-21 troop carrier helicopter (1:37). H-21 troop carrier helicopter (1:48). Vietnamese soldiers unloading from a H-21 troop carrier helicopter and walking through a field (2:04). Soldier in a helicopter with a gun in his hand (2:21). Fleet of H-21 troop carrier helicopters ready to take off (2:26). Fleet of H-21 troop carrier helicopters flying and landing (2:31). H-21 troop carrier with the soldiers and crew (2:57). Gunner with a machine gun standing at the left-side door (3:27). H-21 troop carrier helicopters land in a field (4:09). UH-1A helicopter (4:08). UH-1B helicopter (4:19). H-21 troop carrier helicopters (4:22). Helicopter pilots (4:33). Crew (4:38). Rockets (4:52). Helicopter pilot aiming his weapon (5:00). Machine gun (5:04). Fleet of UH-1A armed helicopters (5:17). UH-1A pilots (5:25). Machine-gun ammo (5:35). Man working on the UH-1A armed helicopter (5:54). 30 caliber machine gun (6:00). Machine-gun ammo (6:19). Rockets (6:41). Crew members loading the rockets into an UH-1A armed helicopter (7:08). UH-1A armed helicopter takes off (7:28). UH-1B armed helicopter (7:44). Army soldier adding arming the helicopter with traversable m60 machine guns (8:10). Machine gun ammo (8:10). Gunner co-pilot (8:31). 7.62 machine gun system known in the army as the XM 6 kit (8:52). Rocket launchers added to the UH-1B armed helicopter (9:30). UH-1A landing at a red cross medical center (10:23). Wounded Vietnamese soldier on a stretcher (10:35). Medical team assisting a wounded soldier (10:48). UH-1A used as “jungle air ambulances” (10:59). Wounded child sits in his mother’s lap on a helicopter (11:11). UH-1A with a red cross takes off (11:16). H-21 troop carrier helicopter being disassembled to prevent it from falling into enemy hands (11:21). Heliborne strike pilots transported in trucks (12:36). Operations officer gives briefing for today’s strike (13:19). H-21 troop carrier helicopters at the loading zone (13:58). Morning briefing between the H-21 troops (14:03). Troops are loaded into the H-21s (14:16). Helicopter flight formation H-21 for troop carriers (15:53). H-21 troop carrier (16:34). Five armed escorts of UH-1As and UH-1Bs in the flight formation (16:50). H-21 troop carrier helicopter pilots (18:20). Flight formations for H-21 troop carrier helicopters (18:35). UH-1B flying (19:01). Machine gun (19:08). H-21 troop carrier helicopters land in a field (19:20). Flight formations for UH-1As and UH-1Bs (19:28). Vietnamese soldiers are discharged from the H-21 troop carrier helicopters (19:54). H-21 troop carriers take off (20:10). The following H-21 troop carriers land in the field (20:17). Scenario where the H-21 troop carrier is fired upon while landing (20:48). Low flying UH-1B (20:56). Helicopter pilot (21:11). UH-1B flies to assist the H-21 troop carrier and fires its machine gun (21:15). UH-1B flies up to join the daisy chain and then flies down and launches rockets (21:26). The other UH-1B continues to cover the other H-21 troop carriers (21:57). Machine gun (22:52). UH-1B flying (22:25). Explosion from a rocket in the forest (22:27). Daisy-chain formation graphic (22:33). UH-1B launches rockets (23:00). Vietnamese soldiers riding in a helicopter (23:28).

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