1st Cavalry Division on Operation White Lights, Bong Son, Vietnam Part 1

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE OFFICE OF NEWS SERVICES THE PENTAGON, WASHINGTON, D. C. 20301 - LIBERTY 5-6700 AUDIO-VISUAL DIVISION RADI0-TV-NEWSFILM BRANCH ROOM 2E765 - EXTENSION 75111 DUPE NEGATIVE TO: Release No. 24-66 FINE GRAIN TO; Footage: 220' 16am Color Master February 8, 1966 (airmobile) 1ST CAVALRY DIVISION ON OPERATION WHITE LIGHT (Official U. S. Army footage released by Department of Defense) Men of the 1st Cavalry (Airmobile) Division successfully completes a mission on a sweep and clear operation near Bong Son, about 300 miles north east of Saigon during Operation White Light. The objective of this particular mission by elements of the 1st Cavalry Division vas to take and hold an area near highway 1 in the Bong Son area. While advancing towards the objective, the soldiers hiked through swamps up to their waists, across rice paddies, and through dense wooded areas before drawing sporadic fire from Viet Cong snipers. After a series of contacts with the Viet Cong, the U. S. soldiers called for aerial support, provided by A18 Skyraider aircraft. In taking the objective, the 1st Cavalry soldiers killed 27 Viet Cong and took 78 suspects for interrogation in the series of contacts along the route. Many of the suspects were routed from tunnels. Operation White Light is the largest combined ground combat operation to take place in the Vietnam fighting. It involves nine U. S. infantry battalions, one U. S. Marine battalion, attached Republic of Korea forces, and South Vietnamese Government forces. Sequences show: (a) Soldiers boarding helicopters for airlift to strategic points (b) Takeoff and inflight views of helicopter enroute to operations area (c) Helicopters landing, troops unloading (d) Soldiers patroling area in search of Viet Cong (e) Men continue advance, crossing rice paddies, wading through swamps (f) Machinegun and small arms fire directed at sniper area (g) View of tunnels, suspects coming out of tunnels (h) Suspects removed from area and loaded aboard helicopters NOTE TO EDITORS: PLEASE CREDIT DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE IN TITLE OR COMMENTARY The fine grain master positive, released to the company designated above, is for duplication and distribution to interested TV and Newsreel pool members. It is then to be returned within 72 hours to the Film Library, Army Pictorial Center, 35-11 35th Avenue, Long Island City 1, New York. The master positive must not be cut in any manner. A dupe negative is also for release to the company designated above for distribution to pool members so desiring for duplication purposes. within 24 hours it will be delivered to DeLuxe Laboratories, 850 Tenth Avenue, New York, N. Y., telephone Circle 7-3220 where it will be avail- able to non-pool members and other authorized organizations which make satisfactory financial arrangements with DeLuxe Laboratories. The dupe negative must not be cut in any manner. D23413

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

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Filmed News Releases