[08:01:09.20] Sweep--soldiers walking through brush, standing in group,

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1 Project Name: Vietnam War Stories Tape/File # WCNAM A08 4th DIV, Montagnards Transcription Date: 9/15/09 Transcriber Name: Donna Crane Keywords: "4TH INFANTRY DIVISION; MONTAGNARDS; WOUNDED SOLDIERS", 221st Sig. Co., Chur Pa, MT, jungle patrol, finding tunnel, captured child, clearing landing zone with machete, digging trench, James Arness narrates, training, village life, burning village, stockades, Maj. Gen. William B. Rosson, Cap. Ron Shackleton, Master Sgt. John Slober, Sgt. Bill Belch, Rhade villagers training, Hok Thien (?) village demonstration of alert status, Hmong Chinese training at Special Forces Camp near DaNang, KaTang tribe, Medical Evac, wounded, body bags [08:00:51.23] 221st Sig. Co., date: 19 Jan. 69, location-chur Pa, MT [08:01:09.20] Sweep--soldiers walking through brush, standing in group, [08:01:41.29] walking through jungle [08:02:09.00] soldier stops, waits, continues on [08:02:20.25] soldier on field phone, soldiers walking down hill [08:02:33.24] soldier looking at camera, soldier sitting on bank [08:02:57.15] soldier on phone, looks at camera [08:03:06.27] soldier partially hidden on hillside, brush [08:03:25.25] soldiers moving stealthily [08:03:35.05] end of film [08:03:38.25] slate--221st Sig. Co. (roll 2)

2 [08:03:49.29] Soldiers eating C rations [08:04:13.29] Eating [08:04:42.11] Soldiers walking through jungle [08:05:00.24] Soldiers putting on knapsack, helmet, bag around waist, smoking [08:05:24.19] walking through jungle loaded down with ammo and supplies [08:05:54.04] shots of feet walking past, soldiers walk past camera [08:06:19.01] [08:06:26.03] slate--roll 3 [08:06:42.12] soldiers resting, smoking [08:07:10.15] talking in group, [08:07:29.19] soldiers walking toward camera [08:07:57.21] marching through area with lots of trees [08:08:15.09] walking in line through jungle [08:08:45.11] walking through jungle [08:08:52.21] film ends

3 [08:08:55.18] slate-roll 4 [08:09:10.04] sweep continues [08:09:17.11] soldiers stopped [08:09:30.24] soldier with gun on shoulder [08:09:40.20] soldiers hiking up hill [08:10:09.10] soldiers gathering in clearing [08:10:23.27] film ends [08:10:24.28] slate--date: , PFC Lambert [08:10:35.29] soldier removing stone from tunnel entrance [08:10:54.27] soldier looking into jungle, seems to be marking an area [08:11:03.05] marching through jungle [08:11:11.13] captured child [08:11:17.05] soldier cleaning gun [08:11:34.18] slate (unreadable) [08:11:38.26] soldiers walking through field

4 [08:12:01.00] soldiers walking through field [08:12:34.17] soldiers walking through field [08:12:42.11] slate (unreadable) [08:12:46.23] soldiers shoot, retreat, soldier walking through field, in treed area [08:13:13.08] soldiers walking through field [08:13:31.14] soldier shooting rifle [08:13:48.24] film ends [08:13:53.24] slate (out of focus) [08:13:59.27] soldiers in jungle [08:14:16.13] chopping down tree with machete [08:14:53.17] [08:14:55.09] slate (out of focus) [08:15:02.03] soldier digging trench [08:15:42.12] soldier digging trench [08:16:03.17]

5 [08:16:12.29] soldiers marching [08:16:30.21] soldiers almost hidden in brush [08:16:57.02] marching through high grass [08:17:05.08] [08:17:06.14] slate (out of focus) [08:17:12.13] very dark--soldiers in jungle [08:17:29.03] soldiers resting-on phone, smoking [08:18:05.19] on phone [08:18:09.16] [08:18:10.21] [08:18:18.04] walking through high grass [08:18:49.09] marching through jungle [08:19:20.12] [08:19:26.03] soldiers faces as they walk past camera [08:19:47.24] moving through jungle, stop, look back at camera, wave

6 [08:20:03.21] walking toward camera (faces are shadowed), walking into jungle [08:20:23.08] [08:20:24.29] [08:20:34.19] soldiers climbing hillside (shot from above), climbing up hillside through area with lots of tree trunks [08:21:03.06] soldier with camera, other soldier walks past him, soldier smiles, various faces [08:21:32.29] [08:21:41.14] soldiers walking down hillside to clearing [08:22:08.24] line of soldiers walking down open hillside [08:22:34.23] [08:22:35.24] [08:22:42.19] out of focus (camera on while cameraman is walking) [08:22:47.25] soldiers crossing stream, climb up bank on other side [08:23:09.25] regrouping on other side, soldiers stepping into stream, being helped out [08:23:42.11] [08:23:43.17] spinning globe, "The Big Picture"

7 [08:24:02.16] James Arness narrates, point to map of Vietnam [08:24:37.04] Vietnamese soldier shoots gun, bare-chested US soldier walks behind [08:24:46.07] harvesting in rice patty, shots of sunsets, dead body with note on it's back [08:25:10.23] village with soldiers and Vietnamese in group watching man reading something while kneeling [08:25:24.19] soldier training Vietnamese, soldier pointing to chart in front of group [08:25:36.00] Vietnamese in village, writing in ledger, group outside hut, woman pointing out sign in Vietnamese showing dental hygiene to man and child [08:25:47.15] soldier training Vietnamese soldiers, soldier holding gun (garden in BG) [08:25:54.16] walking through jungle, shooting [08:26:05.17] [08:26:06.16] "The Hidden War in Vietnam", [08:26:22.11] burning hut, soldiers running in front, children running away from village [08:26:36.07] men, women and children running down village street [08:26:45.16] soldier carries child, medics carry stretcher with someone on it [08:26:55.11] entrance to refugee camp, group of children with armed soldiers distributing paper and pencils

8 [08:27:18.14] tree house, views of village from above [08:27:32.17] aerial view of building, aerial view of men standing by fence [08:27:37.09] Maj. Gen. William B. Rosson with entourage arrives in a village, shakes hands with villagers, inspects defense system at training center where Am. soldiers train Vietnamese tribesmen [08:28:07.11] Vietnamese wait in line to receive weapons, soldiers looking through fenced area [08:28:19.13] Maj. Gen. Rosson speaks to camera [08:28:59.19] group of soldiers talking under a striped tent, teaching villagers [08:29:16.29] soldier carrying a burlap bag, throws it on helicopter [08:29:24.22] shots of teaching villagers to use weapons [08:29:34.14] soldiers and Vietnamese walking together in village [08:29:41.02] soldier greets robed Vietnamese, inspects village--walks down street lined with children [08:30:14.19] Vietnamese women and children lining street [08:30:23.14] Cap. Ron Shackleton talks directly to camera [08:30:50.28] Viet Cong villagers, women and children [08:31:04.14] training Rhade on weapons [08:31:19.17] stockade fences, man sends people into stockade area after checking papers

9 [08:31:34.02] Master Sgt. John Slober leaves stockade, meets with group of villagers [08:31:46.23] Slober talks to Rhade patrol through interpreter, group listens [08:32:08.01] demonstrates keeping weapon at the ready to group [08:32:39.08] Sgt. Bill Belch instructing group [08:33:14.21] Vietnamese listen, individual shots of them checking weapons [08:33:22.03] soldiers demonstrating care of weapon [08:33:32.22] search and seizure training around the sides of a hut [08:34:00.11] Vietnamese men arriving at village for training, [08:34:17.16] training, signing in [08:34:29.11] Vietnamese sign outside village gate [08:34:42.09] villagers at attention, calling out orders in Vietnamese, soldiers responding [08:35:23.25] Rhade soldiers marching [08:35:32.01] huts on stilts in village, group of soldiers meeting around map on wall [08:36:12.07] soldier talking about the observation of the training that has been taking place [08:36:35.04] another soldier responding

10 [08:37:01.12] group shot of discussion [08:37:36.05] James Arness narrating [08:37:47.00] villagers in group, disband, shots around village [08:38:04.07] outside a hut-tables and chairs with medics screening villagers [08:38:30.00] man talking to child, passes her a piece of paper, building a hut [08:38:50.17] harvesting rice, woman pouring tea for soldier working in field, he smiles [08:39:10.12] group of villagers digging [08:39:19.26] [08:39:21.17] stockade village-(hok Thien (?) near S. China Sea), three men standing outside building [08:39:45.28] Demonstration of villagers defending their village and training for warfare-- banging drum, villagers running out of buildings, soldiers amassing, marching [08:40:13.02] soldiers at casements, aerial view of soldiers in furrows, by barbed wire fence [08:40:45.13] "all clear" drumming, villagers return to buildings [08:40:55.23] [08:40:58.21] soldiers marching into village [08:41:33.28] sweep of village and jungle

11 [08:42:00.18] soldiers shooting toward temple, running to new positions [08:42:31.02] sweeping temple, all clear signal [08:43:02.10] soldiers marching through stockade area [08:43:18.19] marching into jungle, shooting pistol into air, soldiers run for cover, meet back in field [08:43:51.27] [08:43:55.00] Hmong Chinese training at Special Forces Camp near DaNang, practicing with weapons, watching demonstration by American soldiers [08:44:22.26] KaTang tribe, getting rations-dried shrimp and rice, putting on knapsacks, moving out [08:44:46.05] marching through jungle, camouflaged soldiers moving through jungle [08:45:06.10] climbing about helicopter, pilot [08:45:13.18] shots of helicopters flying, aerial view of helicopters on ground, mountainous terrain, helicopter landing in mountainous area [08:45:33.11] soldiers getting out of helicopter and unloading supplies, soldiers meeting, holding down supplies as helicopter leaves [08:46:06.00] soldiers hiding in bushes, shoot at hut, [08:46:30.10] soldiers run out of hut, gunfight, captured soldiers [08:46:53.28] Rhode tribesman interviews with Special Forces team

12 [08:47:37.28] interpreter, continued interview of VC [08:48:38.09] James Arness narrating [08:48:51.25] various shots in village--women weaving, roofing hut, family eating in home [08:49:02.21] handing out weapons to villager soldiers, American soldier trip wire [08:49:16.17] soldiers shooting into brush, shot of feet running in dirt [08:49:27.21] village on fire [08:49:32.27] Vietnamese toddler crying [08:49:36.12] shots of village built on edge of water, boats in river [08:49:52.03] artwork of ancient battle [08:50:03.29] James Arness narrates [08:50:17.29] soldier, sunset [08:50:25.17] slate-7 Nov 65 Medical Evac [08:50:29.12] wounded soldiers climbing out of helicopter with help from medics [08:50:37.12] wounded soldier on stretcher [08:50:53.11] camera turned on its side--shot of the ground

13 [08:51:10.01] tent with red cross [08:51:19.22] slate-- 7 Nov 65 roll 2 [08:51:25.06] carrying soldiers on stretchers into tent [08:51:40.16] taking wounded soldier off helicopter [08:51:49.03] taking soldiers on stretchers to helicopter [08:52:18.07] blurry slate [08:52:22.04] blanket, wounded soldiers being triaged [08:52:35.28] tagging camera and weapons [08:52:58.25] red cross tent with soldiers aiding a wounded soldier [08:53:04.25] [08:53:07.27] Med evac helicopter landing, loading stretchers with wounded [08:53:42.19] wounded being carried on stretchers [08:54:06.01] slate 3 Nov unit 895th sig. med evac roll 2 [08:54:13.03] wounded getting off helicopter headed to base camp [08:54:43.04] helicopter landing, more wounded

14 [08:55:15.12] [08:55:20.15] helicopter landing, wounded loaded onto stretchers [08:55:58.07] wiping blood from soldier's face [08:56:03.26] soldiers on stretchers [08:56:18.17] end of film [08:56:28.22] slate-25/11/65, 173rd (?) [08:56:33.02] Vietnamese gathered outside building, soldier addressing them, group claps [08:56:52.14] American soldier addressing group, group claps [08:57:05.14] loud speaker, talking to group [08:57:22.10] group claps, others address group [08:57:37.22] [08:57:41.19] passing out flyers to women with children, lined up inside building [08:57:58.09] medics working on children [08:58:13.24] group waiting outside clinic, V-TE sign [08:58:22.25] soldiers under sign

15 [08:58:27.15] medic examining adults [08:58:37.29] line of villagers waiting outside, Army Medical Services vehicle [08:58:46.00] film ends [08:59:07.17] slate- 12 Nov 65, SPDP [08:59:09.04] wounded soldier being loaded onto helicopter, other wounded soldiers in helicopter, close door, take off [08:59:44.26] wounded soldiers unloaded and others loaded onto med evac [09:00:11.17] soldier on stretcher taken to ambulance [09:00:17.20] [09:00:20.26] unloading wounded from helicopter, loading into ambulance [09:00:50.06] unloading wounded, carrying him to ambulance [09:00:56.20] unloading body bag, carrying to ambulance [09:01:22.06] loading dead onto ambulances [09:01:30.03] slate 12 Nov 65 SPDP [09:01:32.07] box of "Human Blood" on ground, unloading stretchers from ambulance, loading on helicopter [09:01:58.24] inside helicopter

16 [09:02:04.14] carrying wounded soldier to helicopter--clamps around his neck [09:02:26.10] taking wounded to ambulances [09:02:37.09] slate- 12 Nov 65, SPDP [09:02:39.11] wounded walking out of ambulance to helicopter [09:02:54.14] helicopter takes off [09:03:03.04] unloading body bags [09:03:27.07] tape ends