This color, silent raw footage from the Vietnam War in 1967 shows the use of Boeing CH-47 Chinook heavy-lift helicopters (or possibly just one helicopter) performing an airlift. There are various shots of door gunners, as well as transport of supplies and artillery to a remote base in the jungle.

Two U.S. Army soldiers working on a Boeing CH-47 Chinook heavy-lift helicopter, tail 60096 (see note below) (00:19). A soldier standing in front of a Bell UH-1 Iroquois (Huey) utility helicopter (00:39). A soldier looks out from a flying helicopter with a door gun (01:00). A soldier in an orange vest sits inside the flying helicopter (01:55). Other soldiers in the helicopter (02:18). A Kodak film box is used as a slate, identifying the cameraman as SPS Hyde and the date as May 24, 1967 (02:52). A soldier uses a field phone (03:02). A soldier wearing an orange safety vest moves a hook which will be used to attach the equipment to the helicopter (03:25). A Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter flying (03:53). It hovers close to the ground and picks up the packaged equipment (04:10). More crates are hooked to Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopters to be transported away (04:51). The ground (05:30). A note (05:39). A Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter flying (05:56). It picks up supplies and transports it away (06:10). The process is repeated (06:57). U.S. soldiers package crates with supplies for helicopter transport (07:47). M101 Howitzer artillery gunners are packed for transport (08:21) and flown over forest (08:29). The supplies and artillery gunner is dropped on the ground and the helicopter flies away (10:14). Soldiers exit a landed Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter through the ramp door (10:36). The ramp is closed (10:47). A note (10:56). A Dodge M37 Power Wagon drives up the ramp door and into a Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter (11:13). A door gunner in a flying helicopter using a M60 general machine-gun (11:26). View of pilot in cockpit, looking forward (12:30). The helicopter lands and soldiers walk to it (13:03). A Dodge M37 Power Wagon drives out from the Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter (13:28). The helicopter flies away (13:31). It drops supplies hooked beneath it (13:48). A carton box with a note (14:01). A Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter flying with crates of supplies (14:08). The crates are dropped off (14:23) and the helicopter flies away (14:28). The process is repeated (14:40). Pink smoke and a soldier holding his arms up (15:31). A Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter arrives and drops supply crates (15:41) and flies away (16:01). The process is repeated (16:17). Soldiers exit the ramp door of a Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter (17:30). The helicopter flies away (17:42). Two soldiers stand by an artillery gunner (17:54). A soldier uses a field phone (17:58). A pipe shooting yellow smoke, probably to cover the take-off of the helicopter from hostile fire (18:24). Soldiers assist a M151 1 ⁄ 4 ton 4×4 utility truck exiting the ramp door of a Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter (18:35). Views from a flying helicopter (19:01).

U.S. Army helicopter 66-00096, Boeing build number B-228, was a CH-47A helicopter. The U.S. Army acceptance date was 25 August 1966. The administrative strike date was 8 May 1976. 66-00096 accumulated at least 1,234.0 aircraft hours as of 8 May 1976. On or about September 1972, 66-00096 was transferred to the Vietnamese Air Force (VNAF), in the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) and was captured by North Vietnamese Forces at the close of hostilities. The last known location of 66-00096 was in the Republic of Vietnam.

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