Vietnam Operation Muscatine, ca 19-22Jan68 Pt. 1 of 2
USAF O-1 (Cessna) plane overhead, dives & fires rockets, swish pan to trees; MS firing rocket; flies low above. Soldier cleaning M-16 rifle by straw pile or hut; CU. Man on radio leaning against straw.
18:21:27 Man lying sleeping next to rifle. Officer eating grapefruit.
18:22:05 22Jan68 Soldiers w/ field packs moving down path on hillside. Crouched by fence at edge of meadow, walk past hut; along pond & across rice paddy; along trail past foliage. Guns at ready.
18:23:32 Crossing waist deep water; officer on radio, checking map.
18:24:48 20Jan68 Troops watch in FG explosion in tunnel complex; looking into smoking hole. Explosions.
18:26:02 UH-1D helicopter takes off & past. Aerials of military camp & village houses, flooded rice paddies. Flying over military base.
18:27:07 19Jan68 Soldier opening crate of explosives, removes metal tube.
18:27:39 UH-1Bs firing rockets at Viet Cong positions nearby,, smoke.
Vietnam War Fighting;
Participating in Operation: 198th Lt Inf., Americal Div.
Note: Operation Muscatine is said to have lasted ten months. It included My Lai Masscre.
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Vietnam Operation Muscatine, ca 19-22Jan68 Pt. 1 of 2 USAF O-1 (Cessna) plane overhead, dives & fires rockets, swish pan to trees; MS firing rocket; flies low above. Soldier cleaning M-16 rifle by straw pile or hut; CU. Man on radio leaning against straw. 18:21:27 Man lying sleeping next to rifle. Officer eating grapefruit. 18:22:05 22Jan68 Soldiers w/ field packs moving down path on hillside. Crouched by fence at edge of meadow, walk past hut; along pond & across rice paddy; along trail past foliage. Guns at ready. 18:23:32 Crossing waist deep water; officer on radio, checking map. 18:24:48 20Jan68 Troops watch in FG explosion in tunnel complex; looking into smoking hole. Explosions. 18:26:02 UH-1D helicopter takes off & past. Aerials of military camp & village houses, flooded rice paddies. Flying over military base. 18:27:07 19Jan68 Soldier opening crate of explosives, removes metal tube. 18:27:39 UH-1Bs firing rockets at Viet Cong positions nearby,, smoke. Vietnam War Fighting; Participating in Operation: 198th Lt Inf., Americal Div. Note: Operation Muscatine is said to have lasted ten months. It included My Lai Masscre.