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Operation Muscatine (198Th Lt Inf Bde, Americal Div); Etc (1968)

1968 · Newsreel · 19 min

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OPERATION MUSCATINE (198TH LT INF BDE, AMERICAL DIV); ETC Covers: January 19, 1968–January 23, 1968 Shot List, Summary: Approx. 600': USAF 0-1 plane flies over, dives and fires rockets at Vietcong positions in jungle. 0-1 flies directly over the camera. VS, soldier cleans M-16 rifle. Soldier speaks over radio as he reclines on the ground. Soldier sleeping. Officer eats grapefruit. Soldiers walk down hillside. Soldiers crouch; advance on hut. Soldiers cross rice paddy. Soldiers with rifles at the ready walk on trail. Soldiers wade waist-deep across canal. Officer speaks over radio as he checks map. Soldiers watch in fg as demolition charges explode in tunnel complex. Soldiers examine damage to tunnel caused by the demolition. Additional explosions in tunnels. UH-1D takes off. AVs, campsite, village, flooded rice paddies. Soldier opens crates containing explosives. LSs, UH-1Bs firing rockets at Vietcong positions. Demolition explosions in tunnels. Soldier checks ID papers of woman. Children look on. Two women sitting on ground. Villagers being rounded up. Soldier with his head protruding from tunnel. He places articles found in tunnel on ground. Articles are checked. Soldier enters tunnel. Soldier probes floor of tunnel with bayonet as he crawls forward. Soldiers pass a dead Vietcong along trail. Soldiers enter wrecked village. Rice is dumped. Villagers walk to assembly area in clearing. Soldier at tunnel entrance. Villagers sitting on the ground. Soldiers check their…

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