Vietnam: A Television History; Operation Long Reach, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile)
- Contributing Organization
- WGBH (Boston, Massachusetts)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/15-cc0tq5rf8g
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- Description
- Description
- VS, display of captured Vietcong weapons and ammunition. Included are Chinese 50 cal guns, 57mm RRs, US carbines, Chinese automatic weapons, a crude Chinese rocket launcher. Soldiers bring in a dead American face down on litter. VS, soldiers heat rations over small fire. Soldiers advance through jungle; jump across small stream. Officer on AN/PRC-25 radio calling for rations and ammunition. Soldiers carry dead American on litter to helicopter pickup point. UH-1D helicopter lands in clearing. Soldiers get out and run across grass and the helicopter flies off. Soldier comforts a wounded soldier lying on litter. He gives him a puff from a cigarette. Other watch. UH-1Ds land. Wounded are loaded into the helicopters and they take off. Soldiers carry dead on litters to UH-1Ds. UH-1D takes off. VS, officers holding a briefing in field. VS, young nervous Vietcong prisoner with his hands tied behind his back. Viet soldier tries to question a wounded Vietcong prisoner lying on the ground. LS, pan, wounded American soldiers on litters waiting to be airlifted out by helicopter.
- Date
- 1965-11-05
- Date
- 1965-11-06
- Date
- 1965-11-05
- Asset type
- Raw Footage
- Topics
- Global Affairs
- War and Conflict
- Subjects
- Military missions; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Nationalism and communism; Vietnam (Asia) nation; National liberation movements; Airplanes, Military Rocket launchers; War casualties; Military helicopters; Operation Long Reach, 1965; Pleiku (Vietnam)
- Rights
- Rights Note:,Rights:Public Domain,Rights Credit:NARA,Rights Type:All,Rights Coverage:,Rights Holder:NARA
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Duration
- 00:10:19
- Credits
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Distributor: NARA
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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WGBH
Identifier: b988fc241efa5a82264f7f8fe5fa18adedf596d2 (ArtesiaDAM UOI_ID)
Format: video/quicktime
Color: Color
Duration: 00:06:19
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Vietnam: A Television History; Operation Long Reach, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile),” 1965-11-05, WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed June 29, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-cc0tq5rf8g.
- MLA: “Vietnam: A Television History; Operation Long Reach, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile).” 1965-11-05. WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. June 29, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-cc0tq5rf8g>.
- APA: Vietnam: A Television History; Operation Long Reach, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile). Boston, MA: WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-cc0tq5rf8g