1983VIETNAM WAR
Brief interview with General Westmoreland in Vietnam (with audio) and live footage of U.S. soldiers fighting the war in Vietnam (no audio).
TAPE DATED 11/8/83
TAPE DATED 11/8/83
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| 01:00:05 5.08 |
Reporter interviews Vietnam War General Westmoreland out in the field. They talk about some of the war logistics, the timely intelligence, the surrender of many prisoners, the well disciplined North Vietnamese soldier that waned quickly due to the military pressure applied against them.
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| 01:04:15 255.81 |
Countdown
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| 01:04:27 267.34 |
Live footage from the Vietnam War. POV inside a helicopter in flight. Several helicopters in the air, dark and cloudy.
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| 01:04:37 277.08 |
Several Vietnam war helicopters landing in a field during the war.
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| 01:05:08 308.79 |
Several soldiers quietly walking through the brush. Dark.
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| 01:05:20 320.6 |
CU soldier sits down in the grassy brush and takes off his shoe. He explains to a reporter that something sharp, a poisonous "punji stake", went right through his boot into his foot. Footage is dark.
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| 01:06:08 368 |
Soldier carrying several canteens, nighttime. Other soldiers make torches with bamboo and light some fires. No audio.
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| 01:06:36 396.04 |
Pan across a lake to cu of rapidly running river water
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| 01:06:48 408.48 |
Soldiers cross the river at night quietly and slowly.
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| 01:07:31 451.53 |
Tilt down on several Landing Ships at shore, doors open and seen unloading tanks, vehicles and equipment onto the beach. Hundreds of troops carrying weapons coming off the ships walking across the beach
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| 01:07:59 479.46 |
U.S troops arrive in Vietnam and are seen driving jeeps with ammunition and other vehicles across the beach
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| 01:08:05 485.61 |
Var. shots U.S. troops working together, building their cover in the field, passing sandbags building walls of sandbags, eating together on long tables outdoors at camp.
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| 01:08:32 512.52 |
CU arm patch on soldier's uniform - picture of an eagle and "Airborne" written above it.
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| 01:08:37 517.71 |
Aerials of presumably U.S. military base in Vietnam
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| 01:09:07 546.95 |
U.S. troops carrying weapons and walking along windy sandy area - extremely dusty.
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| 01:09:30 570.34 |
Troops coming off the Landing Ship on the beach.
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| 01:09:31 571.23 |
Aerial the U.S. military camp. Several picnic style tables outside a building
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| 01:09:36 576.06 |
Aerials over Vietnam, bodies of water, river (could be the Mekong) and hilly green wooded terrain,
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| 01:11:40 700.34 |
Outdoor sign written in Vietnamese. An archway with Vietnamese writing out in the field, low lying mountains in bkgd.
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| 01:11:55 715.31 |
Var. U.S. military helicopters flying and landed
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| 01:13:26 806.55 |
Soldiers carry a victim on a stretcher across a field.
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| 01:13:45 825.59 |
Soldiers on the move in Vietnam, running through the brush, boarding a waiting helicopter.
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| 01:14:24 864.07 |
Pan various Weapons and ammunition lying in the dried out grass.
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| 01:16:22 982.49 |
Soldier holds up a shoe, a pair of boots in a bucket
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| 01:16:34 994.37 |
CU shots of different soldiers out in the field, young men White and Black.
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| 01:17:07 1027.51 |
Soldiers in a field (the terrain looks like hay), one looking through binoculars. Pan across green mountainous terrain.
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| 01:17:20 1040.63 |
Various shots of individual soldiers out in the battlefield in Vietnam - taking photos, looking through binoculars, talking on a field phone.
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| 01:18:04 1084.76 |
Montage of soldiers loading bombs into canons and shooting
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| 01:19:58 1198.75 |
Several soldiers seen tending to a wounded victim, carefully transporting the victim on a stretcher across a river as they are guarded by another soldier.
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| 01:21:03 1263.24 |
A wounded soldier leans on another soldier as they walk through the field
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| 01:21:36 1296.38 |
A dead body lies face down on the river's embankment
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| 01:21:41 1301.06 |
Soldiers trudging carefully and slowly through an extremely muddy river, knee to waist high in water, carrying supplies and weapons
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| 01:23:19 1399.61 |
Tilt down, blurry, soldiers walking with young Vietnamese prisoners. CU young Vietnamese boy - could be prisoner.
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| 01:23:46 1426.49 |
Var shots dead or wounded Vietnamese.
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| 01:24:41 1481.54 |
Various shots of crashed U.S. military helicopters in the field.
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| 01:25:28 1528.2 |
Blank
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| 01:25:43 1543.81 |
A soldier seen pointing to various positions on a large map on the wall - dark.
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| 01:27:15 1635.85 |
Cutaway cargo planes landed in a field. Military equipment is unloaded, canons, tanks, etc.
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| 01:27:52 1672.76 |
Dark stormy clouds over U.S. base camp. Helicopter lands in a cloud of dust behind the buildings.
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| 01:28:07 1687.31 |
CU bombs lined up on the ground. Several soldiers working as a team loading the canons with bombs
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| 01:28:56 1736.29 |
A montage of U.S. military helicopters in Vietnam - the copters taking off, aerials looking over the terrain and POV from above at copter's propellors spinning, landing copters with dozens of armed soldiers disembarking ready for combat.
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| 01:33:03 1983.12 |
Var shots soldiers at war, setting up in the field, cu soldier looking through binoculars, running through fields, talking on portable field phone
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| 01:33:42 2022.3 |
Bombs exploding in the mountains, fighter jets flying by, black smoke and soldiers looking out through binoculars.
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| 01:35:28 2128.12 |
Soldiers walk through murky muddy water, carrying guns and equipment.
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| 01:36:31 2191.18 |
Tilt down a pair of boots in a bucket.
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| 01:36:51 2211.71 |
Pan various weaponry and tools lined up on the ground, guns, ammunition, shovels, hammer, knives.
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| 01:37:13 2233.52 |
Blank
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| 01:37:34 2254.05 |
Countdown
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| 01:37:39 2259.77 |
Blank
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| 01:37:41 2261.52 |
Soldiers walking across a bridge and walking through a field in Vietnam
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| 01:38:24 2304.55 |
Two soldiers seen loading a weapon
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| 01:38:54 2334.55 |
WS of a river, maybe the Mekong
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| 01:38:58 2338.48 |
Soldiers hidden in the bush, pointing a rifle
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| 01:39:04 2344.55 |
Soldiers assist a wounded man lying on the ground on a stretcher. Shirtless soldier looking up at camera has bloody bandage around his waist, other soldiers tend to him.
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| 01:39:32 2372.05 |
Black soldier kneeling in the weeks, wearing camouflage, holding a rifle.
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| 01:39:34 2374.2 |
Tilt down two soldiers helping a wounded man lyingon the ground in the weeds.
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| 01:39:37 2377.05 |
CU the nose of a military helicopter.
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| 01:39:52 2392.05 |
Footage of soldiers loading a wounded soldier on a stretcher into waiting helicopter
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| 01:40:09 2409.9 |
A news correspondent standing behind a wall of sandbags in South Vietnam talks into a mic he's holding. He states there were more close calls over the last few months but that no foolish risks were taken, only necessary risks.
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| 01:40:50 2450.09 |
Countdown
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| 01:40:57 2457.24 |
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| 01:40:58 2458.31 |
Soldiers disembark from rear of a cargo helicopter and onto the field ready for combat. Shots of the soldiers barely seen through the weeded field
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| 01:43:23 2603 |
End Reel.
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