https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/3e027746-978b-4035-8652-622ed790b8dc Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com Shot by U.S. Army combat cameramen during the Vietnam conflict, this reel of film contains several different segments. It begins with footage shot by a cameraman named Staal in the beginning of June of 1967 in Tan Tru. Tan Tru was an area characterized by heavy combat and hard fighting. In the start of 1967, the US was expanding their air and ground war in Southeast Asia. Operations Coronado and Operation Akron would be enacted. The following year, 1968 would prove the bloodiest year of the war. US troops march across a field with Vietnamese farmers trailing behind (:14). Faces of the farmers are zoomed in on under traditional non la hats (:41). Identification cards are checked (1:01). The following day (2:53), a body appears stiff with rigor mortis (5:45) on the side of the road. An army jeep arrives at the scene (6:01). A rope is pictured tied to the body and the jeep (6:14). The jeep begins to roll off as other infantry men stand by (6:27). The sheet once neatly tucked around the body blows in the wind and the limbs are bloodied (6:33). A machine gunner (6:40) watches over the caravan. A tank gunner hangs from the hatch (6:50). Packed armored vehicle rolls down a dirt road (7:07). Youth receive medical treatment (8:22). A series of M-35 series cargo trucks roll by (8:41). Shaky footage follows the infantrymen aboard the trucks; machine gun belts around their necks (8:57). A cameraman snaps photographs of an armed infantryman peering through gun sights in the grass (9:53). Machine guns are cleaned (10:11). A third series Bolex camera was used to capture the footage (10:43). An AN/TSC systems Radar Box appears (10:57). Crews perform maintenance (14:01). Infantrymen wade through a river (16:20). A search is conducted on a home (17:08). The camera angle runs down a wet rural road (18:10). Vietnamese Police (18:19) pull over a bus on the side of the road (18:29). Dark footage shows combat cameraman preparing film (20:34). Surgeons and doctors surround a wounded soldier (22:10) in a dimly lit room. A pilot performs checks on his plane in the hangar (24:39). Jungle firebase. Infantry men move around the 155 mm howitzer (25:36). The gun barrel is cleaned (26:31). The camera pans around the base (30:04). M113 armored personnel carriers move over hilly terrain (30:28). An explosion erupts (31:02). Another bomb is dropped (31:06) as combat breaks out (31:27). Machine guns spit out rounds (31:34). A note details the date as September 28th, 1967 (31:49). Infantrymen sift through an abandoned camp (32:05). US Troops smoke as they take a moment for reprise (33:19). A Bell UH-1 swings in (33:52). Soldiers pile in. Another touches down (34:04). A wounded soldier is taken to the chopper (34:11). A newspaper (35:03) headline reads "Marines pounded". An M113 drives down the road (35:14). A tank gunner smiles from the hatch (36:04). Cameraman Kalsey captured the next segment of footage featuring the Mobile Riverine Force (36:29). This was a joint US Army and US Navy force. Infantry march through lush jungle (36:38).  An explosion shakes the camera (36:45). Infantrymen take a radio call in the field (37:24). A soldier smiles for the camera (38:11). Amphibious vehicles wade through a river (38:46). The American flag waves high from the center (39:02). Flames lick at the jungle (39:14). Infantrymen move through jungle (39:47). Vietnamese prisoners are interogated andsearched (40:45). Another man is kicked with hands tied behind his back (41:07). A thin man appears bound in high grass as a US infantry man drags him up showing a bloodied mouth (41:52). A young Vietnamese woman prisoner is pulled through the jungle (41:59). She refuses to move forward and a US troop grabs her hair (42:08). A Vietnamese man is chucked to low ground (42:13). His supplies and clothing are searched (42:30). Infantrymen use machine guns to search through the high grass (43:01). An Army jacket and other supplies are located beneath the jungle foliage on the ground (43:40). For almost two decades, we've worked to collect, scan and preserve the world as it was captured on 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have endangered films you'd like to have scanned, or wish to donate celluloid to Periscope Film so that we can share them with the world, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the weblink below. 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