# "U.S. NAVY OPERATIONS IN VIETNAM" 1966 U.S. NAVY RIVERINE PATROL BOATS OPERATION MARKET TIME 29754

This film, "U.S. Navy Riverine Operations," (1966) provides a look at the various roles of the U.S. Navy and Marines in the Vietnam War, focusing heavily on civic action, offshore blockade, carrier operations, and the intense riverine combat in the Mekong Delta. This includes coverage of Operation Market Time, a U.S. Navy, Republic of Vietnam Navy and Royal Australian Navy operation begun in 1965 to stop the flow of troops, war material, and supplies by sea, coast, and rivers, from North Vietnam into parts of South Vietnam. 0:00 The film opens by showing Marines and Navy personnel engaging in civic action , working with villagers to construct churches, hospitals, and schools. A Navy corpsman with medical supplies is shown as a "symbol of America's helping hand." 1:56 The film introduces the "unusual new kind of shallow water warfare" where Navy men operate small boats and transports to hunt and destroy the waterborne Viet Cong and advise the Vietnamese Navy. 2:34 Just off the coast, the Navy and Coast Guard are shown conducting Operation Market Time, constantly patrolling a thousand miles of coastline to search ships and junks for supplies intended for the Viet Cong. 3:15 Well offshore, the film highlights the aircraft carrier as the "backbone of our Navy surface forces," operating as a mobile airbase with over 4,000 men. The workdays average 12 to 18 hours to keep combat sorties flying over North Vietnam. 4:21 A search and rescue helicopter is deployed in response to a…

- Kind: Film
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/29754SeaPowerForSecurityVietnamRiverPatrol)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
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