AMERICAN RANGER ADVISER OF MACV (TEAM 40) AT VIETMANESE RANGER TRAINING CENTER Part 1

Description

Summary: Viets sliding down cable and hitting the water. Viet officer signals with flag. Australian adviser, American adviser, and Viet officer talking. Vietnamese soldiers and American advisers in discussion on 3-strand rope bridge. Viet officer and Capt McKee start across the 3-strand rope bridge. Australian adviser demonstrates M79 grenade launcher on range. Viet officer and a trainee watch. Main gate of the Center. Maj Thompson with Major Tran Cong Lieu, CO, Duc My Ranger Training Center. They watch trainees march off. Trainees attack a mock Vietcong Village. They overturn a trap and reveal a pit with pointed stakes. Capt Duane G Cameron, American adviser, and Viet officer observe the trainees. A hut is entered. They drag out a captive whose fright appears genuine. He is searched. Viet officer shows how it should be done. The trainees run off. Viet officer shows how to treat a captive. He comes upon a Vietcong flag and hands it to the American adviser. Seq shot during heavy rainfall. Ambush in which the Vietcong are surprised by the Viet Rangers. Explosion; Vietcong troops fall to the ground and crawl in the mud. Two American advisers and a Viet officer watch the exercise. Viet Rangers in concealed foxholes jump out and attack the Vietcong from the rear.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Motion Picture Films from the Army Library Copy Collection