Vietnam War - Operation Long Reach, 1st Cav Div, LaTae River, ca 16Nov65
Captured Vietcong weapons & ammunition including Chinese 50 cal guns, 57mm RRs, US carbines, Chinese automatic weapons, crude Chinese rocket launcher. Displayed behind rope, US army officers looking.
08:59:50 Two GIs carry in stretcher w/ dead American soldier face down. Six soldiers in grass heating rations over small fire, eating, talking smoking. Patrol thru woods, jump across small bog or stream. Officer on AN/PRC-25 radio telephone calling for rations & ammunition.
09:01:54 Three GIs carry dead American on litter to helicopter pickup point.
09:02:06 Slate: 16Nov65. (or 26th?) UH-1D landing in grass & men out w/ guns & stretchers, unload take off.
09:02:52 Wounded on stretcher assisted in smoking by Sergeant & others.
09:03:17 Slate: 16Nov65 or 26th? Medical helicopter landing, wounded carried to copter, takes off. Wounded Black on stretcher tended; carried to medical chopper.
09:04:29 Slate: ?? Helicopters land kicking up dust. Men out & get suppleis. Group of dead on stretchers carried to helicopters; leave.
09:05:38 Slate: ?? Officer briefed by men in field on fight?. Young Viet Cong prisoner w/ hands tied behind back & feet tied shaking.
09:06:48 Slate: ?? Vietnamese soldier trying to question wounded Vietcong prisoner lying on ground; translator takes notes. Dead Americans lying on ground under tarps. Troops in background in trees. Helicopter in grass, men walking to it; bodies lying & weapons stacked. Men standing nearby.
Vietnam; November 1965; 1960s; Horrors of War; Fighting Aftermath; Horrors of War; Pleiku Province;
Note: Part of first major battle between US Forces & People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN). 1st Cavalry Division received Presidential Unit Citation
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Vietnam War - Operation Long Reach, 1st Cav Div, LaTae River, ca 16Nov65 Captured Vietcong weapons & ammunition including Chinese 50 cal guns, 57mm RRs, US carbines, Chinese automatic weapons, crude Chinese rocket launcher. Displayed behind rope, US army officers looking. 08:59:50 Two GIs carry in stretcher w/ dead American soldier face down. Six soldiers in grass heating rations over small fire, eating, talking smoking. Patrol thru woods, jump across small bog or stream. Officer on AN/PRC-25 radio telephone calling for rations & ammunition. 09:01:54 Three GIs carry dead American on litter to helicopter pickup point. 09:02:06 Slate: 16Nov65. (or 26th?) UH-1D landing in grass & men out w/ guns & stretchers, unload take off. 09:02:52 Wounded on stretcher assisted in smoking by Sergeant & others. 09:03:17 Slate: 16Nov65 or 26th? Medical helicopter landing, wounded carried to copter, takes off. Wounded Black on stretcher tended; carried to medical chopper. 09:04:29 Slate: ?? Helicopters land kicking up dust. Men out & get suppleis. Group of dead on stretchers carried to helicopters; leave. 09:05:38 Slate: ?? Officer briefed by men in field on fight?. Young Viet Cong prisoner w/ hands tied behind back & feet tied shaking. 09:06:48 Slate: ?? Vietnamese soldier trying to question wounded Vietcong prisoner lying on ground; translator takes notes. Dead Americans lying on ground under tarps. Troops in background in trees. Helicopter in grass, men walking to it; bodies lying & weapons stacked. Men standing nearby. Vietnam; November 1965; 1960s; Horrors of War; Fighting Aftermath; Horrors of War; Pleiku Province; Note: Part of first major battle between US Forces & People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN). 1st Cavalry Division received Presidential Unit Citation