Vietnam: A Television History; Captured Viet Cong Fim During Operation Junction City [Part 1 of 2]

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Title:
Vietnam: A Television History; Captured Viet Cong Fim During Operation Junction City [Part 1 of 2]
Description:
Covers Viet Cong activities as shot by amateur cameramen within VC units. Reel 1 - Shows Viet Cong crossing field, ambushing jeep, dead ARVN soldier, Viet Cong digging trench, collecting residue from tapped rubber trees, questioning Vietnamese women and children. Vietnamese leaving Viet Cong checkpoint, bomb damage around Viet Cong base camp, C-130 in flyover, Vietnamese leaving bus, Viet Cong speaking to group, group reading Viet Cong material, and boarding bus, remains of tank and A-1E engine. Viet Cong setting up machine gun at foxhole, entering and leaving bunker, setting up machine gun at entrance to bunker, crossing ditches and streams with material fastened to bicycles, crossing footbridge, attending political or propaganda lecture, UH-1B in flyover, Viet Cong writing letters, digging hole for munitions storage bunker, cleaning carbine, testing captured field radio, lighting cigarette, relaxing, cleaning rifle, dragging limbs on road, wiring artillery rounds for booby traps, crossing river in dugouts, aiming .45 cal. pistol, applauding as women and children enter camp with food, and eating in large groups. 869' Total footage in reel. Reel 2- Shows Viet Cong at political or propaganda lecture, crossing road, carrying AK-47 submachine gun, abandoned bus at side of road, dead body beside bus, Viet Cong in field, dead ARVN soldier C-123B in flyover, Viet Gong making mines from scrap material and gun powder, women cultivating crops, Viet Cong carrying dud MK.82 bomb in sling, removing fuse and detonator from bomb, planting home made mines on trail, rushing to bunker, woman and boy storing hand grenades in foxhole, Viet Cong digging tunnel, cleaning and repairing weapons, entering thicket, blowing bugle, charging across field, firing M-16, carbine, M-1 and other weapons, setting up M-16A1. Afers mines (similar to Claymore mine), shaped-charge mines made by Viet Cong, Viet Cong stacking limbs on road, covering large hole with poles, foliage and dirt, planting mines and punji sticks on trails. UH-1B in flyover. Viet Cong leaving bunkers, moving through trenches, briefing groups on Claymore mine, speaking at political or propaganda class, testing and repairing captured radio components, using code key, recovered radiosonde transmitter (T-435A/AMT-48), Viet Cong tossing US Military ID card, family photos, and Vietnamese and US service medals on ground, poster with accomplishments of Viet Cong unit, Viet Cong printing and proofreading papers, and writing letters, A-1E and C-130 flyovers. Viet Cong working in field and cultivating crops, making explosives, pouring substance into mine, handing out material to Vietnamese at meeting, putting safe-conduct sticker on bus leaving check-point, Vietnamese leaving bus at checkpoint, reading material, and listening to Viet Cong speakers including a woman.
Date:
1967
Format:
Film/Video
Location:
WGBH
Collection (local):
American Archive of Public Broadcasting Collection
Series:
WGBH > Vietnam: A Television History
Subjects:
War damage
National liberation movements
Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Nationalism and communism
Vietnam (Asia) nation
Bunkers (Fortification)
Camouflage (Military science)
Combat
Freight transportation
Military bases
Operation Junction City, 1967
Propaganda
Special operations (Military science)
Vietnamese
Viet Cong
Extent:
00:00:00
Link to Item:
https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-mp4vh5cp56
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Publisher:
NARA