# U.S. MARINE CORPS 1968 SOUTH VIETNAMESE REFUGEES DOCUMENTARY VIETNAM WAR 25754

This 1968 United States Marine Corps color propaganda documentary MH-10476 documents the USMC’s part in the large-scale evacuation of the South Vietnamese refugees and helping them establish a new safer life away from the Viet Cong as part of the Civic Action Program. The film opens with the different faces of Vietnamese refugees of all ages. A transport helicopter lands and refugees run out. A child runs, carrying another child on his back. Another elderly man walks with a stick, the helicopter seen behind him (:06-1:15). Marines patrol through the tall grass in Vietnam. Young children refugees group together. Refugees run as shots are fired at them and the Marines fire back. Marines help refugees carrying their belongings hung on carrying poles cross a river (1:16-3:22). A Boeing CH-47 Chinook move through the sky over the I Corps provinces. It lands and Marines encourage refugees caught in cross-fire to run into the helicopter’s open door. Footage is shown inside the helicopter of the many faces of the refugees. The disembark at a refugee collection center. Water is poured into a metal cup and a child drinks from it. A pin hooked on a jacket has a picture of Jesus on it. Many women and children are shown, some wearing conical hats (3:24-8:07). Paperwork is filled out by government workers and groups of families are loaded onto an open bed truck with benches and transported to safe housing. Food is distributed. A close-up is shown of blankets distributed by Crawford Mfg.…

- Kind: Documentary
- By: PeriscopeFilm
- Genres: War, Documentary, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/25754usmctherefugeesvwr)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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