Pt. 1 of 2
Ships at anchor, Jun67, USS Harnett County (LST-821) in mouth of Co Chien River, Mekong Delta, Vietnam. Anchored w/ small boats attached to poles. Cu of faces of men in patrol boats, helicopter over river.
00:00:53 Title: River Patrol
Aerials of delta, farm lands, palm trees & toward & landing on deck of LST-821. Loading rockets & refueling. River patrol boats from ship, plotting on map; officers on shipboard & men at guns. Vietnam junk nearby. Helicopter patrol leaves, POV over delta, mountain ridge. Officer on ship, morning quarters, orders.
00:04:50 POV river boat leaving LST-821, put on helmet, loading machine gun. Boats along, CU men on board; from land boats into small channel, US flag flying; past small boat being poled w/ eight or ten people. Passing boats past villages. Man signaling sampan, checking papers, watching w/ rifles, searching w/ metal detector. Checking papers. Talking to Vietnamese, families.
00:08:38 Soldiers lighting cigarettes, eating from cans. CU faces looking tired beside rifles. Returning to LST-821, maintaining ship & weapons. Lifting river boat on board, lowering into hold. CU maintenance of motor. Working on helicopter & replacing parts.
00:11:05 Playing cards, reading newspaper comics, writing letters & reading magazine. Navy corpsman packing drugs & medicine. Visiting village w/ other soldiers, followed by kids; giving candy bars. Village of Hung Me (sp?) & villagers w/ patients given pills, ointment & medicine via translators.
Vietnam War; Pacification Efforts; Patrolling; Latinos; Fighting; 1960s; 1967;
NOTE: Any 14 consecutive minutes of two cards 00:00:00 - 00:28:28 sold at per reel rate.
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Pt. 1 of 2 Ships at anchor, Jun67, USS Harnett County (LST-821) in mouth of Co Chien River, Mekong Delta, Vietnam. Anchored w/ small boats attached to poles. Cu of faces of men in patrol boats, helicopter over river. 00:00:53 Title: River Patrol Aerials of delta, farm lands, palm trees & toward & landing on deck of LST-821. Loading rockets & refueling. River patrol boats from ship, plotting on map; officers on shipboard & men at guns. Vietnam junk nearby. Helicopter patrol leaves, POV over delta, mountain ridge. Officer on ship, morning quarters, orders. 00:04:50 POV river boat leaving LST-821, put on helmet, loading machine gun. Boats along, CU men on board; from land boats into small channel, US flag flying; past small boat being poled w/ eight or ten people. Passing boats past villages. Man signaling sampan, checking papers, watching w/ rifles, searching w/ metal detector. Checking papers. Talking to Vietnamese, families. 00:08:38 Soldiers lighting cigarettes, eating from cans. CU faces looking tired beside rifles. Returning to LST-821, maintaining ship & weapons. Lifting river boat on board, lowering into hold. CU maintenance of motor. Working on helicopter & replacing parts. 00:11:05 Playing cards, reading newspaper comics, writing letters & reading magazine. Navy corpsman packing drugs & medicine. Visiting village w/ other soldiers, followed by kids; giving candy bars. Village of Hung Me (sp?) & villagers w/ patients given pills, ointment & medicine via translators. Vietnam War; Pacification Efforts; Patrolling; Latinos; Fighting; 1960s; 1967; NOTE: Any 14 consecutive minutes of two cards 00:00:00 - 00:28:28 sold at per reel rate.