Video documents various activities at Phu Bai from 1968 through 1971. Includes great aerial views of the camp; 3rd Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division, airport; helipad; camp entrance and more. Please note: This video is silent and there is no narration!
This Video Includes The Following Scenes:
Soldiers unload sandbags from truck in chain fashion. Tents in background. Soldiers constructing a sandbagged bunker. An American flag in foreground. Soldiers fill and tie sandbags.
Soldiers attach antennas to rear of jeep. Officer and soldiers look at map spread out on hood of jeep. Soldier takes compass reading. Officer and soldier get into jeep stacked with concertina wire and drive off. Soldiers unload concertina wire from jeep. Soldiers carry roll of wire to perimeter and spread it out.
82d Airborne insignia on TOC tent. MP on guard at entrance to tent. Soldiers lined up for mess. Soldiers move thru messline and are served on paper plates. Close-up of road sign: "Phu Bai 2 KM".
Truck convoy enters gate of camp. Soldiers wave from truck. Vietnamese young boys and girls filling sandbags. American soldiers look on. Soldiers load sandbags into truck. More on Viets filling sandbags. CUs, old woman and young girl prepare bags. Boy drinks water from plastic container.
Soldiers dig in; fill sandbags. 105mm How in background. Soldier drinks from canteen. Soldier digs trench.
Solder digs with shovel; uses pick. Soldier drinks from canteen cup. He douses his head with water. Camera pans camp area. Soldiers clean 106mm RR in sandbagged position. Bulldozer levels ground. Soldier operating bulldozer. Earth being pushed by bulldozer. View of tents of camp. Soldier with M-16 rifle on guard. Aerial views of the base camp.
Empty dump trucks entering base. Airport at Phu Bai. Overall shot Phu Bai Combat base. Sign: Crest emblem of the 85th Evac Hosp. Entrance to 85th Evac Hosp.
