SNATCH OPERATIONS (1ST AIR CAVALRY DIVISION)
1968 · National Archives and Records Administration (via FedFlix)
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- Creating body, as recorded
- Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations. US Army Audiovisual Center
- National Archives Identifier
- 32220 (local identifier 111-LC-53547)
- Internet Archive item
- gov.archives.arc.32220 (uploader's licence mark: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
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National Archives and Records Administration SNATCH OPERATIONS (1ST AIR CAVALRY DIVISION) ARC Identifier 32220 / Local Identifier 111-LC-53547 1968 Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations. U.S. Army Audiovisual Center. (ca. 1974 - 05/15/1984). Summary: AVs, looking down at UH-1D copters flying low over rice paddies. AV, smoke rising from grenades marking target. AV, UH-1Ds land on dikes. OH-23 copter hovers over old Vietnamese man. UH-1D lands. Soldiers jump out. Vietnamese man is put aboard the copter and it takes off. Group of officers talking. Two Vietcong who gave themselves up by walking into fire support base, point out locations on map. Woman Vietcong being questioned. AV, village. A few soldiers can be seen standing on paddy dike nearby. Officer, soldier, and Vietcong walk toward village. Vietcong points out hut. Hut is searched. Officer throws hand grenade into canal. He runs for cover and the grenade explodes. OH-23 flies over hut. VS, Vietcong girl sympathizer is questioned. AV, village and surrounding terrain. Lost loop scenes not described. UH-1Ds come in over jungle terrain and hover low over the ground. Soldiers jump off the copters and the UH-1Ds fly off. AV, assault area.