Title reads: “RED ARMS CAPTURED“.
South Vietnam (Vietnam War).
Aerial shot from American army helicopter flying over South Vietnam’s coastline where a camouflage ship has been sunk. Nearer shot ditto. C/U guns pointing from helicopter. Various shots from helicopter of the captured arms being unloaded from the boat and piled on beach.
C/U South Vietnamese soldiers coming through jungle carrying more arms which were found hidden in jungle. M/S soldiers opening boxes of ammunition. C/U soldier holding rifle ammunition, another soldier takes large shell from case. C/U pan soldiers looking at a shell, it is marked with Chinese writing. C/U ditto.
According to narrator, arms are provided by Communist countries (USSR, China) to be used by Viet Cong guerrilla forces.
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