Vietnam: A Television History; Operation Long Reach, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile)
Description:
VS, display of captured Vietcong weapons and ammunition. Included are Chinese 50 cal guns, 57mm RRs, US carbines, Chinese automatic weapons, a crude Chinese rocket launcher. Soldiers bring in a dead American face down on litter. VS, soldiers heat rations over small fire. Soldiers advance through jungle; jump across small stream. Officer on AN/PRC-25 radio calling for rations and ammunition. Soldiers carry dead American on litter to helicopter pickup point. UH-1D helicopter lands in clearing. Soldiers get out and run across grass and the helicopter flies off. Soldier comforts a wounded soldier lying on litter. He gives him a puff from a cigarette. Other watch. UH-1Ds land. Wounded are loaded into the helicopters and they take off. Soldiers carry dead on litters to UH-1Ds. UH-1D takes off. VS, officers holding a briefing in field. VS, young nervous Vietcong prisoner with his hands tied behind his back. Viet soldier tries to question a wounded Vietcong prisoner lying on the ground. LS, pan, wounded American soldiers on litters waiting to be airlifted out by helicopter.
