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24 feet/0:391 roll - dupe negSyndicationVarious shots of US Army Bell Huey helicopters dropping off South Vietnamese army infantry at a landing...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eAll stories mute\u003cbr/\u003eVietnam: Attack in Mekong (sic)\u003cbr/\u003eMekong Delta, Vietnam\u003cbr/\u003eRecall: 1Q803U2\u003cbr/\u003eB/W mute - 24 feet/0:39\u003cbr/\u003e1 roll - dupe neg\u003cbr/\u003eSyndication\u003cbr/\u003eVarious shots of US Army Bell Huey helicopters dropping off South Vietnamese army infantry at a landing zone  (LZ)  somewhere in the Mekong Delta, South Vietnamese artillerymen firing three rounds  from their 105mm M101 howitzer, and setting the fuses on their 33-pound shells,  Huey helicopters flying away from the LZ after dropping off their human cargo.\u003cbr/\u003eVarious shots showing South Vietnamese army Rangers armed with M-1 carbines bringing in three Viet Cong (VC) suspects, their arms tied behind their backs, the commander of the South Vietnamese army unit poring over a map,  two VC suspects being blind-folded by Vietnamese army Rangers.\u003cbr/\u003eStoryline: A typical  'search and destroy' mission by the South Vietnamese army (possibly the 9th Division) in the fiercely-contested Mekong Delta.\u003cbr/\u003eVietnam: Operation 'Crunch'\u003cbr/\u003eRecall: 1Q798U2\u003cbr/\u003eB/W mute - 53 feet/1.28 minutes\u003cbr/\u003e1 roll - dupe neg\u003cbr/\u003eSyndication\u003cbr/\u003eVarious shots of South Vietnamese army-manned US-built M113 armoured personnel carriers negotiating an irrigation canal.\u003cbr/\u003eVarious shots showing frightened Vietnamese peasants being interrogated by an army officer and being led away by the soldiers, an old woman who had hidden in a covered dug-out being told to come out.\u003cbr/\u003eVarious shots showing a South Vietnamese soldier about to hurl a hand grenade, soldiers drag a dead body out of a water-filled paddy field and discover a live Viet Cong guerrilla hiding nearby. \u003cbr/\u003eStoryline:  A glimpse of the disruption the war causes in the Vietnamese countryside during one of many 'search and destroy' missions mounted by the 9th  South Vietnamese  Division in the Mekong Delta.\u003cbr/\u003eSaigon: Buddhist demonstration\u003cbr/\u003eSyndication\u003cbr/\u003eVietnam\u003cbr/\u003eRecall: 1Q61U2\u003cbr/\u003eB/W mute - ? feet/0:42\u003cbr/\u003e1 roll - dupe neg\u003cbr/\u003eSyndication\u003cbr/\u003eVarious shots of  Buddhist monks and their supporters on a protest march against the Saigon government led by Air Vice-Marshal Ky, being  stopped by South Vietnamese army soldiers, seen here armed with M-2 carbines and an M-79 grenade launcher.\u003cbr/\u003eVarious shots of the Buddhist monks and other demonstrators sitting down in the street  in front of a coil of barbed wire blocking their way and chanting prayers.\u003cbr/\u003eStoryline: Buddhist monks, customarily at the forefront of demonstrations against the US-backed South Vietnam government, take to the streets of Saigon after the dismissal of a senior Buddhist army commander in Da Nang.\u003cbr/\u003ePhilipine (sic) troops for Vietnam\u003cbr/\u003eThe Philippines\u003cbr/\u003eRecall: 137A656U2\u003cbr/\u003eB/W mute - 34 feet/0:54 \u003cbr/\u003e1 roll - dupe neg\u003cbr/\u003eSyndication\u003cbr/\u003eVarious shots showing a Filipino army sergeant wearing a bush hat kissing his wife goodbye at Manila airport or Clark Air Force Base, she and their child looking upset at saying goodbye.\u003cbr/\u003eVarious shots showing senior American and Filipino politicians and army commanders on hand to bid the troops farewell, another soldier kissing his wife or girlfriend goodbye.\u003cbr/\u003eVarious shots showing Filipino troops shouldering kit bags boarding a US Air Force C-130 Hercules transport plane rigged up as a troop-carrier, one soldier carrying a small guitar in his hand.\u003cbr/\u003eVarious shots of relatives waving goodbye to their menfolk from the edge of the airfield, the engines of the C-130 Hercules starting up and preparing for take off.\u003cbr/\u003eStoryline: In cooperation with America's other allies in East Asia and Australasia, the Philippines government despatches a formation of 2,000 soldiers, designated the Philippines Civic Action Group,  to South Vietnam.\u003cbr/\u003eSouth Vietnam: Australians show captured weapons\u003cbr/\u003eRecall: 1Q791U2\u003cbr/\u003eB/W mute - 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