SEARCH AND DESTROY OPERATION (199TH LIGHT INFANTRY BDE) Part 2

Description

Summary: Soldiers leading Vietcong suspects out of village. Soldiers in line walk along dike of rice paddy. Soldiers slog through deep mud in dense foliage. Two Vietnamese natives take four soldiers at a time across river in their small boats. The soldiers struggle knee-deep in mud on both sides of the river as they make their way down and up the riverbanks. AVs from behind pilot of helicopter of UH-1Ds in flight. AVs, flooded rice paddies. Soldiers wading across flooded paddies. Soldiers getting off hovering UH-1D helicopters into flooded water of rice paddies (Excellent). Silhouettes of soldiers slushing across flooded paddy (Very dramatic). VS, soldiers crossing deep channel with the use of rubber air mattresses. VS, soldiers resting and drying out. Soldier checks his M-16 rifle. Soldiers use rope to guide themselves across the deep water on their air mattresses. Soldiers resting by hut. Soldiers cross a makeshift log bridge. Soldiers walk past a burning haystack. Soldiers wade across waist-deep water of river and struggle up the deep mud of the riverbank. Soldier helps to pull a man out of the deep goo. VS, soldiers resting near a hut. AVs, flooded rice paddies, river, villages. AV, smoke from signal grenade. Note: Excellent scenes of the soldiers struggling in the mud and water.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Motion Picture Films from the Army Library Copy Collection