Operation Delaware (1st Air Cavalry Division), I Corps Area, A Shau Valley, South Vietnam Part 1

Description

Lost loop scenes not described. UH-1D lands. Soldiers climb aboard and it takes off. UH-1Ds land. Smoke from signal grenade in foreground. Air-to-air, UH-1D in flight. Soldiers get off copters and start across field. The UH-1Ds take off and fly overhead. Lost loop and scratched scenes not described. UH-1Ds land by group of soldiers. Copter flies overhead. Formation of copters fly over UH-1Ds on ground. The UH-1Ds start to take off. VS, UH-1Ds landing in droves. Soldiers get off and the copters fly away. CH-54 lowers 105mm How to ground. Soldiers walk on dirt road. CU, bomb crater half-filled with water. Tilt up to UH-1D unloading soldiers. Soldiers walk past CH-47. The copter takes off raising clouds of dust. Soldiers walk on road. CH-47 comes in with slingload of ammo. Another CH-47 carries 105mm How in sling. How is released and the copter flies off. C-130s fly over and parachute supplies to the ground. LS, smoke from downed C-130. CU, tail section of plane. Tilt up to C-130 burning. The plane explodes. Smoke and secondary explosions from crashed C-130. Avs looking down at heavy cloud cover over valley. Air-to-air. UH-1D flying over cloud formation.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Motion Picture Films from the Army Library Copy Collection