https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/5d942fe3-c901-49d1-95f3-069ee50ed88e Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Help us preserve, scan and post more rare and endangered films! Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com Part 1: https://youtu.be/FWOxHVKCOGE Part 2: https://youtu.be/wBgjhbCxyeE Shot by an unknown American military man or contractor, this home movie takes viewers to Vietnam, showing a slice in the day in the life of soldiers in an unidentified area (possibly Vandegrift Fire Base) near Da Nang in Vietnam. It shows a CH-47 Chinook making a delivery of cargo and picking up troops and some combat action. We believe this dates to 1965 but it could be later. NOTE: unfortunately, a large portion of this film was shot with lint or hair in the "gate" of the camera, obscuring a lot of the action. This film opens with shots of an Esso gasoline semi-truck (:03). A military man in camouflage cuts in front of the camera (:08). A covered jeep runs down the line (:08). A truck delivers sand bags (:18). A woman rides on the back of a motorcycle behind a covered jeep (:37). A dark blue Citroen Traction Avant runs down the street (:37). A Vietnamese father and son ride a blue motor scooter (:41). A bus from Da Nang drives by (:59). Transport vehicles haul cargo (1:21); mountains rise in the background (1:21). A bazooka is fired off (2:07). The camera pans over lush vegetation and rolling hills which might be Happy Valley (3:23). Soldiers operate the radio (3:51). Another soldier waves a metal detector over the ground searching for buried land mines (3:57). Smoke billows up from the ground from an exploded mine (4:01). Planes cross paths in the sky (4:25). Another mine erupts (4:46). The camera follows a plane between trees (5:49). A helicopter zooms by (5:53). The butt of a helicopter is captured as it lifts off (6:15). A man is drug up by a rope into the helicopter (6:41). Troops fill a small boat (7:15). Smoke billows from a hilltop (7:34). Foot soldiers step from a small boat (7:37) into grassy lands. Troops paddle with hand oars across the water (8:46). A shirtless US soldier cleans his weapon (8:57) while half sitting in the weeds. A great shot shows troops in the camps; some meandering about and others sitting and working on equipment (9:10). Flare smoke rolls over the ground (9:16). A CH-47 Chinook peels from lush trees in the distance (9:23). Cargo is dropped by net (9:29). The Chinook appears again lowering to the ground (9:36). It lifts back off with soldiers from the campsite now aboard (9:41). A soldier pinches of several rounds of an automatic (9:59); shells pop all over. Another shot shows another man firing rounds as a soldier holds the belt (10:12). Red bullets race to their targets (10:17). A soldier stands with a machine gun belt around his neck (10:25). A dirt road cuts through the valley (11:57). Point of view footage follows as a car runs down the dirt road (12:18). Bouncy footage captures semi-trucks and cars running down the modern highway (13:10). Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. 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. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuZgviSHrW0 Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:31:37 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/5d942fe3-c901-49d1-95f3-069ee50ed88e All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.