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keywords: vietnam war, graves registration, mortuary affairs, soldier remains, body identification
Synopsis: Unedited footage of the Graves Registration Service as U.S. military personnel bring in the remains of U.S. soldiers, using dog tags and other evidence to confirm the identity of the soldier...(read more)
- Date: 1968
- Duration: 00:19:02
- Sound: No
- Color: Color
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: United States
Vietnam 1968 - Graves Registration
Interior scenes of a Graves Registration Collecting Point (morgue) in Vietnam. Two soldiers enter carrying remains (body) of dead U.S. soldier on litter. They put on plastic gloves. ID tags (dog tags) of dead soldier are compared with field medical card and other identification items. CU, "Dog tag" or military ID tag. Name of soldier printed inside helmet is compared to the "dog tags" and medical card.
Soldier fills out Register of Remains Form for dead U.S. soldier killed in Vietnam. CU, dirty field medical card of dead U.S. soldier in Vietnam. Personal effects are removed from clothing of corpse of U.S. soldier killed in Vietnam. CU, ID card is removed from billfold.
Truck arrives at Graves Registration Collecting Point in Vietnam. Soldiers remove bodies of dead U.S. soldiers on litters from truck and carry them into building. Truck backed up to C-130 aircraft. Soldiers carry remains of U.S. soldiers killed in Vietnam into aircraft on litters. Soldiers carry corpse of U.S. soldier killed in Vietnam on litter to UH-1B helicopter. The helicopter takes off. CU of UH-1B Huey helicopter. Interior view of room of Graves Registration Collection Point in Vietnam. Soldiers carry remains of dead U.s. soldier on litter and place and place litter stand. Soldiers of the Mortuary Affairs unit of the Army Quartermaster Corps put on plastic gloves.