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MORTAR AIR DELIVERY SYSTEM (MADS) 25TH AVN BN; ETC Part 1
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Summary: Approx. 175': UH-lH copter on ground with rotors turning. Mortar chute in the copter. Soldier positions chute. Soldiers arrive with box of 81mm mortar rounds. VS, rounds are placed into chute on copter. CUs, 8lmm mortar round and fusing device. CU, round with fusing device and makeshift stabilizer. (length of cloth wrapped around the fins). CU, soldier unwinds the stabilizer from the round. CU, box of rounds. MEDAL OF HONOR (POSTHUMOUSLY) TO SPECIALIST FOUR GEORGE ALAN INGALLS.: Pentagon, Washington DC: 01/30/1969: Approx 170': CU, Medal of Honor. CU, Department of the Army Seal on wall. CU, sec of the Army, Stanley R Resor speaking. CU, Gen William C Westmoreland and Gen Kenneth G Wickham. MS, Ingalls family. MS, California Senator Allan Cranston and Representative Charles Wiggins looking on. MCU, Several unidentified generals. Gen Wickham, Adjutant General, reads citation. MS, Sec Resor presents medal to Mrs Ingalls. Ingalls family receive condolence from VIP officers. ATTACK ON HO NAI.: Outskirts of Bienhoa AFB, South Vietnam: 02/26/1969-02/28/1969: Approx 400': Soldiers of the 11th Armored Cav Regt move slowly thru brush. LS, smoke and explosions in village. AH-lG copter fires at village; explosions. UH-lG copter flies low over burning village. M-113 APC and M-551 assault vehicle in field on outskirts of village. The M-551 is firing it's MG. LS, smoke and fire in village. M-551 and M-113 drive away. Jet plane flies overhead. Smoke and fire in village. VS, completely destroyed buildings of village. MSs, CUs, Vietcong covered with chemical solution to prevent spread of disease. Wrecked church; a few people inside. Burned-out houses. MSs, CUs, grotesque scenes of Vietcong bodies covered with chemical solution. Wrecked building, rubble. Girl sitting along ruins. Dead pig. Bodies of Vietcong. Dead covered with chemical solution. Destroyed vehicles and rubble. VS, ARVN and American soldiers spraying chemical solution on Vietcong bodies.
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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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