# 1966 VIETNAM WAR HOME MOVIES SAIGON 91st MILITARY POLICE BATTALION PARTY & SWIMMING POOL XD8147

This 8mm home movie was shot during the Vietnam War by Peter Orsino, who worked as a U.S. Army chef in Southeast Asia in 1965-66. He did not see combat, but worked primarily in rear areas during the conflict. This particular footage appears to have been shot in and around Saigon. It shows Saigon street scenes and a Shell gas station (:49), a young girl talks to American G.I.s (1:00), rickshaw or tuktuk in traffic (1:26), building under construction (1:41), sign for a party (1:46), with chef staff cooking chicken on open fire at tent barracks, (2:18) sign for the 91st Military Police (MP) Company party, April 9, 1966, sampling cooked food off the bbq grill (3:12), Saigon street scenes (4;04) including song birds in cages (4:24), fruit and vegetable, and meat market (5:40), cargo ship belches smoke on the dock (6:11), African American soldier or chef sits outside tent smoking cigarette and reading newspaper (6:50), Huey helicopter flies overhead (7;08), sandbagged mess tent and supper room sign for consolidated mess (7:42), Vietnamese graveyard (7:56) with huge smoke cloud in distance possibly from an attack or airplane crash (8:12), guard towers on the perimeter of a military base (8:32), large swimming pool, probably the Saigon swimming pool (9:57). Peter Orsino was born in Cornwall NY, joined the Army in 1958 where he began his lifelong career of being a cook/chef. He went from Fort Lee VA to Fort Dix NJ, to Vietnam where he spent a year (Aug 65-Aug 66) with the 557th MPCo…

- Kind: Home movie
- Genres: War, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/VKnHMGmD0w8rB8Lxvxo7htiK2zpGWz)
- 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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