173rd Airborne Brigade Civic Action, Vietnam

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TMENT OF DEPARTMENT DEPARTMENT NEWSFILM RELEASE OFFICE OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE (PUBLIC AFFAIRS) NITED STATES OF AMERICA WASHINGTON, D.C. - 20301 PLEASE NOTE DATE IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 5, 1966 OXford 75111 Number 290-66 Footage: 75' 16mm Color Master Room 2E 765 173RD AIRBORNE BRIGADE CIVIC ACTION Vietnam A.P.C. (Official U. S. Army film released by Department of Defense) An extensive medical civic action program is being conducted in the War Zone D area of South Vietnam by soldiers of the 173rd Airborne Brigade. They visit every village in their area of responsibility at least once a week, but never the same village on the same day of the week, in order not to establish a pattern of travel for the Viet Cong to follow. This film shows a medical team of the 173rd making a recent visit to the village of Thai Hung near Bien Hoa along the Saigon River. To reach the village, the medical team and supplies must cross the river by a Vietnamese sampan. The village chief pays the toll for crossing. Before this day's visit is ended approximately 900 villagers and several of the children at the local church-operated orphanage will have been examined and treated. This civic action is just part of another day's work for the men of the 173rd Airborne Brigade in Vietnam. Sequences show: (a) Jeep with medical team leaving headquarters area (b) Supplies being carried along jungle trail (c) Medical team boarding Vietnamese sampan (d) Various view of sampan moving down river (e) Medical supplies unloaded from (f) Team arriving at orphanage at thai Hunga sampan (g) Various views of children at orphanage and villagers being examined and treated by members of the team NOTE TO EDITORS: 75' 16mm color master released to CBS-TV for servicing TV and theatrical pool members. Color master to be forwarded to Army Pictorial Center, 35-11 35th Avenue, Long Island City, New York 11106, within 72 hours. - over -

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Filmed News Releases