https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/f2d2b592-3fd8-4927-85cf-95caac54d227 Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com Part 2: https://youtu.be/3sgaVqtYn58 Part 1: https://youtu.be/81IqP1Fz1cE In The Year of the Pig Reel 3 is a 1968 documentary by Emile de Antonio and McGraw-Hill Contemporary Films about American involvement in the Vietnam War. It opens with US Marine Colonel William Corson defining what it means to search and destroy. 00:12 US soldiers on search and destroy mission. German shepherds patrol, troops walk through rice paddies. A radio operator calls in coordinates an F-100 bomb drop. Troops walk through burning fields. 01:10 A soldier talks about a cache of unmilled rice found in a tunnel and how they plan to destroy it. A demolitions soldier sets charges. 01:53 ACH-47 Chinook gunship helicopters and all their armament. 03:31 Villagers of Dong Lien and soldiers look on as bulldozers clear the land, fell trees. Attention given to ensure civilians unharmed. Distributing MRE’s to children. Women and children of the village huddle together. VC suspects are removed by helicopter. A dead body of a Vietnamese man lays in a field. The Vietnamese interpreter assigned to the unit explains the man threw grenades at the Marines. 07:34 Senator Thurston Ballard Morton talks about the millions of Vietnamese civilians rounded up. 07:56 Vice President Hubert Humphrey addresses the killing of civilians. 08:28 Soldiers in the field, villages on fire, villagers terrified. Soldiers search through personal property. Corson discusses how to prevent search and destroy from turning into genocide. M113 armored personnel carriers roll across fields. 09:35 Colonel George S. Patton III discusses the units concern for comrades. 10:26 General Westmoreland describes procedure of taking captive as David. K. Tuck shares stories of prisoner treatment in his outfit. 11:09 Green Beret John Toller announces his desertion and how uninformed troops are intercut with General Westmoreland speech noting how military personnel are better informed. 12:25 Tuck shares stories of troops not understanding the Vietnamese. Americans recreation on the beach. Soldiers speak disparagingly about Vietnamese women. 13:26 Department of Defense newsreel about guerrilla warriors assimilating with US forces, pamphlets about the alliance printed and distributed via C-47. 14:42 David Wurfel notes the corruption in Asian politics. Nguyen Cao Ky insists the press policy is to not criticize candidates. Vietnamese citizens voting in the 1967 Presidential election. LBJ says the Viet Cong prevented a fair election. 17:13 Wurfel notes Johnson appointed an unqualified team to observe the 1967 election. Richard Hughes and Whitney Young at a polling station. People vote, registration cards stamped, Vietnamese soldiers on patrol, MPs checking IDs of citizens. 20:13 Inauguration of Nguyen Van Thieu. 21:03 Citizen protest, US Army soldiers arrive on the scene. 21:33 Harry Ashmore reflects on “the arrogance of power.” 22:34 Hubert Humphrie notes that the US does not intend retreat. Ashmore talks about a conciliatory letter he drafted to Ho Chi Minh to discuss peace. Nixon conciliatory action is considered retreat. Paul Mus warns Minh won’t betray his ideals. Dean Rusk assures the US will not give in to Minh. Ashmore notes before his letter reached Minh, President Johnson’s hardline letter to Minh arrived. 26:37 A Vietnamese official and Rusk contradictory remarks about North and South Vietnam. Ashmore suggests most of north and south are with Ho Chi Minh. 28:24 Ilya Todd at Le nouvel observateur, NY Times editor Harrison Salisbury, and Father Daniel Berrigan describe their respective experiences in North Vietnam: the effectiveness of North Vietnamese anti-aircraft guns, the unity of the people. Footage of bombed towns, wounded and dead, anti-artillery action. F-100s fly overhead, explosions, anti-aircraft guns return fire. American planes destroyed. U.S. pilot parachutes and will likely become a POW. 31:12 Civilians and farmers go about daily business, guns strapped to back. Planes drop bombs against AAA. All-age civilians working together in the fields, cities, in the bay. Ho Chi Minh greets a cheering public. 37:50 Paul Mus notes Vietnam has endured invasions before and they survive. Footage of dead and wounded civilians and US soldiers. 39:19 End credit roll. 40:23 End 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. 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