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Oh. Mate your loving did more than just bring back the wounded. He picked up grenade launchers and fired at the North Vietnamese. Boat with three American units to Vietnam. My first time fighting with Ivan in the end of a
long hard biter very hard biter and I'm proud to serve with. You. Will. You. And given the lack of May when we got hit with a very hard mortar
barrage maybe 500 rounds or more and then a tank attack and infantry and tried to breathe and it was a very intense fire and soldiers of our regiment that we advised to 44 than your regiment knocked out the two of them with and very close to the front line. One of them with about a hundred metres of the command both the knocker with the end of the 22 were killed by soldiers of the regiment. There will be 59 which is the Chinese version of the Russian. Why is the rubber being brought here the parameter the implement new weapon at 25 feet away from the bunker with a can of it back with a round of more. Don't forget the rebirth of the regiment that. You are in
the door been pulled right along here in these old very hard they were very brave. If these men are right along here that held the line they didn't break and run with the game like them are with the gun holder that regiment who wouldn't knock out the tanks rather than run they couldn't fill the tank with all the enemies of love. What major way do you think you buy the water for the
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Series
American Experience
Program
Nixon
Episode Number
302
Raw Footage
Kon Tum battle and evacuation, 1972
Contributing Organization
WGBH (Boston, Massachusetts)
AAPB ID
cpb-aacip/15-dz02z12x26
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Kon Tum city battle -Evacuation of wounded and civilians. 1)Action sequence-CS-helmets, shot up, on ground. Army of the Republic of Vietnam soldiers running, behind barbed wire, and with wounded on stretcher. Fast movement everywhere. Soldiers firing-bazooka, machine guns. Civilian refugees along street. Group of Vietnamese civilians running to military helicopter, rushing up into open door. Wide-shot: chaotic scene of running. sound of chopper. Close-shot: gray-haired old woman. 62' to 87346. 2) Darkish scene-soldiers crouching-wounded and fighting men, together in bunker position, rushing-man firing bazooka in background. 10' to 87365. 3) Wounded-medics-bandaged on ground-morphine. Picking them up roughly-1 carried on corrugated metal as stretcher. 24' to 87414. 4) Refugees in open space where copters are landing. Suddenly everyone scatters as if under attack. Soldiers dash for (stadium?)/cut/helicopter lands-people pick up kids and bundles and rush forward. Crush round entrance to copter, as door closes-GI's in charge pull one young boy off. 58' to 87531
Date
1975-05-30
Date
1972-05-30
Asset type
Raw Footage
Topics
History
Subjects
Migration and refugees; Kon Tum (Vietnam); ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam); Vietnam (Republic); combat; helicopters; United States--History--1945-; Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Medical care; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; helmets; Soldiers; United States--Armed Forces; United States--History, Military--20th century
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Media type
Moving Image
Duration
00:12:40
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Distributor: ABC News VideoSource
AAPB Contributor Holdings
WGBH
Identifier: 4e39b91e26fa082d389f9ce4a77fb75e0ba76996 (ArtesiaDAM UOI_ID)
Format: video/quicktime
Color: Color
Duration: 00:12:40:16
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Chicago: “American Experience; Nixon; 302; Kon Tum battle and evacuation, 1972,” 1975-05-30, WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed September 19, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-dz02z12x26.
MLA: “American Experience; Nixon; 302; Kon Tum battle and evacuation, 1972.” 1975-05-30. WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. September 19, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-dz02z12x26>.
APA: American Experience; Nixon; 302; Kon Tum battle and evacuation, 1972. 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-dz02z12x26