VIETNAM WAR 1967 DAILIES SEC. OF DEFENSE ROBERT MCNAMARA REVIEWS BROWN WATER NAVY 83444

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This silent footage or “dailies“ is from the Vietnam War in 1967. It begins with shots of artillery (:30) firing into the jungle. What might be a temple complex surrounds the fire base (1:29). At 2:54 a soldier is seen walking through a plantation. At 4;52 soldiers search huts for signs of V.C. weapons or equipment. At 6:35 a sergeant makes a radio call on a field phone. At 7:50 soldiers including South Vietnamese Army patrol a road. At 7;12 a slate reads 30 July 1967, First Brigade. At 8:50 a woman sits by the side of the road with two children, eating. At 10:20 a woman speaks to the soldiers. At 11:51 a slate reads 10 July 1967. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara speaks to the press at 12:54. At 13;50 a helicopter ferries the Secretary to his next destination. At 15:20 views of the U.S. fleet, presumably in the Gulf of Tonkin. At 16:44 a helicopter hovers over a