173D AIRBORNE BDE ACTIVITIES Part 2
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Summary: VS, American soldiers in full combat gear walk across field to waiting UH-1D helicopters. Soldiers board a UH-1D. LS, UH-1Ds take off. AVs, UH-1Ds in flight. Clouds and terrain seen below. MS, two Negro soldiers seated in airborne UH-1D. RV, pilot at controls of UH-1D in flight. UH-1Ds land in field. Helicopters fly off. VS, soldiers on the alert advance thru rice paddies. Soldier fires an M72 light antitank weapon (LAW) into the jungle. Soldiers in rice paddy. Tilt up to formation of UH-1Ds flying over. Two soldiers check their equipment as they rest in jungle. UH-1Ds land. Soldiers of the 1st Bn debark from helicopters and rush across field. UH-1Ds take off after the soldiers debark. ELS, jet plane zooms in and drops napalm on mountainside. Soldiers in foreground. Soldier cleans sight of M16 rifle. Helicopter lands on mountaintop. Soldiers unload ammunition cases from helicopter. Gun crew of the 319th Arty camouflage 105mm Howitzer with branches. Soldier of 2d Bde, 1st Inf Div seated on 155mm Howitzer and eating tinned ration. LS, 155mm Howitzers in positions.
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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer
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Motion Picture Films from the Army Library Copy Collection
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