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1966 - Color, Vietnam War: 101st ABN Medal Ceremony & 1st Brig, 327th Inf. Operations. 14-17Oct66
Slate: 14Oct66 Camera: Gentry. Black & White troops in swim trunks make float / raft w/ their ponchos. Pairs of men swim in stream using bouyant raft, climb onto riverbank. Raft opened on shore & helmets, clothes & weapons removed.
05:02:38 Aerials / AVs, smoke over countryside.
05:02:47 Actual Combat: LS, MS, CUs. Soldiers in deployed position advance & fire past thatched hut. 05:03:22 Soldiers move out of jungle, cautiously cross field, enter village & search hut, smoking building remains near. Soldier holding M-16 rifle tosses grenade into adjacent tunnel entrance & runs back. Soldier approaches smoking tunnel, removes charred cover boards. Soldier past jug in ground.
05:04:47 Black. NG.
05:05:16 Slate: 17Oct66 same. Color Guard w/ US & 1st Brigade flags. Sign: The Always First Brigade. The 100 Percent Plus Airborne Division. Troops holding colors. General Creighton W Abrams Jr, Asst Chief of Staff & Brig Gen Willard Pearson out of sandbagged large tent to award ceremony.
05:06:16 Gen Abrams pins Distinguished Service Cross / DSC on Captain Ron Brown . Shots of ceremony, CUs. 2nd Camera coverage.
05:08:20 “Stay Alert - Stay Alive" printed on rises of stairway. Color Guard.
05:08:41 CUs, faces of sitting soldiers on grass as they listen to briefing on ridge. Helicopter approaching, landing.
05:10:02 LS, shell bursts on mountainside. Soldiers of 327th Infantry, 1st Brigade wade across river on a sweep & destroy mission towards explosions. Men leave river & cross field toward mountain. CU soldier on field telephone; soldiers fire rifles & flamethrower in smoke. Move ahead across boulders in jungle grass, up slope.
05:12:35 Soldiers hold on to rope line as they cross a shallow swift stream near concrete dam or ??. Last minute over-exposed.
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NOTE: to order see: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk 1966 - Color, Vietnam War: 101st ABN Medal Ceremony & 1st Brig, 327th Inf. Operations. 14-17Oct66 Slate: 14Oct66 Camera: Gentry. Black & White troops in swim trunks make float / raft w/ their ponchos. Pairs of men swim in stream using bouyant raft, climb onto riverbank. Raft opened on shore & helmets, clothes & weapons removed. 05:02:38 Aerials / AVs, smoke over countryside. 05:02:47 Actual Combat: LS, MS, CUs. Soldiers in deployed position advance & fire past thatched hut. 05:03:22 Soldiers move out of jungle, cautiously cross field, enter village & search hut, smoking building remains near. Soldier holding M-16 rifle tosses grenade into adjacent tunnel entrance & runs back. Soldier approaches smoking tunnel, removes charred cover boards. Soldier past jug in ground. 05:04:47 Black. NG. 05:05:16 Slate: 17Oct66 same. Color Guard w/ US & 1st Brigade flags. Sign: The Always First Brigade. The 100 Percent Plus Airborne Division. Troops holding colors. General Creighton W Abrams Jr, Asst Chief of Staff & Brig Gen Willard Pearson out of sandbagged large tent to award ceremony. 05:06:16 Gen Abrams pins Distinguished Service Cross / DSC on Captain Ron Brown . Shots of ceremony, CUs. 2nd Camera coverage. 05:08:20 “Stay Alert - Stay Alive" printed on rises of stairway. Color Guard. 05:08:41 CUs, faces of sitting soldiers on grass as they listen to briefing on ridge. Helicopter approaching, landing. 05:10:02 LS, shell bursts on mountainside. Soldiers of 327th Infantry, 1st Brigade wade across river on a sweep & destroy mission towards explosions. Men leave river & cross field toward mountain. CU soldier on field telephone; soldiers fire rifles & flamethrower in smoke. Move ahead across boulders in jungle grass, up slope. 05:12:35 Soldiers hold on to rope line as they cross a shallow swift stream near concrete dam or ??. Last minute over-exposed. Awards; Medals; Fighting; Battles; NOTE: to order see: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk