Video contributed by Paul Berkowitz, 1st Lt. Jul 69-Mar 70

In 2008, my wife and I went on a World Cruise.   We were gone four months.  I shot about fifty hours of home video on the trip, eventually cut it into 44 episodes. During the trip we went on a three day overland to Da Nang, Cambodia (Angkor Wat), and Saigon.  It was sad coming back to Nam.  It felt empty. Weird.  But I’m glad I went.  The video below (9 min) is a shortened version of two of the World Cruise episodes. I inter-cut some 8mm footage shot during my tour in Vietnam. The full episodes run about 20 minutes total. WC25 Da Nang-Cambodia   WC26 Saigon

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221st signal footage shot by 1st Lt Roger Hawkins Feb 1969 shows the face of war.  Hardened troops search an enemy body. When the body moves, the search goes on with no assistance offered to a dying man ( a VC tax collector) but Roger says “There was no assistance to offer. It was an ambush and one of the Montagnard strikers emptied a burst through the guys head at point blank range. If you look at how the guys head and face are folded, most of his brain is gone, just the lower functions of the brain stem are left.”

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221st signal footage shot by Sp4 Hollingsworth Jul 1969 shows 9th Infantry door gunner firing machine gun from US UH-1 Huey helicopter. Smoke rises from field in distance. Close on pilot of the helicopter. Smoke screen pours out of helicopter in flight.

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221st signal footage shot by 1Lt Don Critchfield  Jan 1970 OV-10 FAC plane of the US Air Force drops bombs on the enemy position in Vietnam during the Nui Ba Den Mountain Assault. US soldiers move down the rugged mountainside. OV-10 FAC plane in flight over the enemy position and rockets fired. Plane maneuvers. The plane dives. Smoke arises from the base of the mountain as the bomb hits the target. Reflection of soldiers in a puddle of water.

US Government Archive number for this historic video is:

111 LC 55365 MPSK