OPERATION CEDAR FALLS, WAR ZONE C, VIETNAM Reel 5 · Part 1

Description

Covers search and destroy operation in the "Iron Triangle" by elements of the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, US Army. REEL 1: 1) Soldier looking into tunnel entrance. 2) Armored personnel carrier (APC) moving at edge of dirt road. 3) Uncovered tank trap. 4) APCs and troops moving through underbrush, troops removing bicycle and bottles from hole and searching bushes. 5) Pile of captured grenades. 6) Soldier preparing charge of detonation and tunnel being blown up. 7) Troops relaxing on top of armored personnel carriers, intercut with scenes from APC moving through underbrush and field. 8) Armored personnel carriers and M-48 tanks leaving base camp. 9) Soldier cleaning M-60 machine gun. 10) Huts burning. 11) Troops sleeping inside APC. 12) AVs battle area. 13) M-48 tank with track damage. 588' Total footage in reel. REEL 2: 1) Troops walking at side of dirt road. 2) Smoke from bomb explosions during F-100 close air support -- armored personnel carriers (APC) in foreground. 3) Troops leaving tunnel, and reentering tunnel with field telephone. 4) Soldier talking on field telephone. 5) Troops inspecting trench. 126' Total footage in reel. REEL 3: 1) M-48 tank moving at edge of clearing and through underbrush. 2) Troops moving through underbrush and watching M-48 tank. 3) Bulldozer clearing path through underbrush. 4) Six Viet Cong (VC) prisoners including two girls. 5) ARVN soldier questioning Viet Cong. 6) Medics treating girl prisoner. 7) Bulldozer leveling Viet Cong camp. 8) Smoke emitting from tunnels. 9) Troops questioning Viet Cong prisoners. 10) UH-1D taking off from clearing. 11) AVs base camp and mortar emplacements. 12) Gunner and crew aboard UH-1D in flight. 371' Total footage in reel. REEL 4: 1) Armored personnel carrier (APC) hit by mine, debris in and around vehicle, intercut with APCs moving through field and heavy underbrush. 2) Soldier squatting behind weeds watching smoke rising beyond trees. 3) Gunners on APCs. 4) Troops waiting on embankment as landing craft and boats (LCVPs) approach, boarding landing craft, leaving LCVP, moving through rice paddy, and tossing grenade into small boat. 5) Dead Viet Cong on river bank. 6) Medic treating soldier with back wound. 7) Troops removing engine from APC, and loading engine aboard APC, intercut with bullet hole in side of APC, and other battle damage to vehicle. 755' Total footage in reel. REEL 5: 1) Troops removing sacks of rice from Viet Cong storage area, unloading rice from APCs in clearing, piling sacks on cargo sling -- sacks are labeled in English, and some have US aid program insignia. 2) CH-47 lifting sling with sacks from clearing. 3) LCVPs on river. 4) Dead Viet Cong floating in river. 5) Soldiers aboard LCVP pointing M-60 and M-16 toward shore. 6) Troops assisting soldier with head wound to medevac UH-1D, and carrying wounded soldier on stretcher. 7) APC with track damage, and troops removing periscope and other salvageable items from vehicle. 8) APCs moving through wooded area. 447' Total footage in reel.

Collection

Records of U.S. Air Force Commands, Activities, and Organizations

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Aviation Activities