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Newsreels 1965 February 9
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720 x 480 29.97i DV-NTSC Quicktime
keywords: vietnam war, pleiku, camp holloway, aircraft carrier uss ranger, operation flaming dart ii, secretary of defense robert mcnamara, national security advisor mcgeorge bundy
Synopsis: Destruction and damage from a Vietcong attack on the airbase at Pleiku with Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara briefing the press, Aircraft Carrier USS Ranger launches Operation Flaming Dart II, National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy arrives at Camp Holloway in Pleiku...(read more)
- Date: 1965
- Duration: 00:06:09
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: Vietnam, United States
Newsreels: 1965 - February 9
A United States airbase, at Pleiku, Vietnam, 250 miles north of Saigon, was attacked by Vietcong Communist guerrillas. Eight Americans died in the attack. Scenes of destroyed aircraft and barracks at Pleiku Airbase. This brought swift retaliation by U.S. and South Vietnamese forces. Operating from from carriers and land bases, 49 jets struck back at staging areas just across the border in North Vietnam. First official word of the retaliatory attacks came from Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in a briefing for newsmen. He told how the decision was made.
Scenes of American aircraft carrier USS Ranger (CV-61) operating off coast of Vietnam February 1965. Shows launching of F-4B Phantom II fighter/bomber planes from aircraft carrier USS Ranger in Operation Flaming Dart II on February 11, 1965. Air-to-air CU of flight of F-4B Phantom II planes with aircraft carrier in sea below. VNAF (Vietnam Air Force) Pilots climb into plane, VNAF plane takes off. Image of a Hawk ground-to-air missile. A Hawk ground-to-air missile system sent to Vietnam. In the first raid, land based planes were forced back by the weather, but the carrier jets completed their strike with the loss of one plane.
The confrontation between the Reds and the West was the most critical since the Gulf of Tonkin incident last summer when the U.S. replied just as swiftly to North Vietnam PT-boat attacks. The second raid came the next day when South Vietnamese pilots hit other bases across the border. Asian reaction was that the two Red powers, Red China and Russia, had lost face in the East-West showdown.
Meanwhile, McGeorge Bundy, United States National Security Advisor to President Johnson, arrives at Camp Holloway at Pleiku, Vietnam. Sign on quonset hut reads "Camp Holloway Airfield Operations". McGeorge Bundy reviews the scene of the Vietcong attack with South Vietnam Army officers. Scenes of McGeorge Bundy visit to the 8th Field Hospital at Nha Trang Vietnam. Scenes of wounded U.S. military servicemen in a ward of the 8th Field Hospital at Nha Trang Vietnam.
McGeorge Bundy arrives home from Saigon where he had been during the attack and counter-attack. Mr. Bundy confers with the President and the National Security Council and says political and religious factions in South Vietnam are now more united in fighting the Vietcong. McGeorge Bundy speaks at a news conference at the White House.
