# Operation Big Spring - Part 1

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) ARC Identifier 31277 / Local Identifier 111-LC-51475 1967 Operation Big Spring - Part 1 OPERATION BIG SPRING 173D AIRBORNE BRIGADE, BIENHOA AND WAR ZONE D, SOUTH VIETNAM, 02/14/1967 - VS, soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, 503 Abn Infantry, 173rd Abn Bde, rest, read papers, and look at pictures in their wallets while waiting for helicopters. VS, soldiers advance through grass and through jungle. Soldiers dig shallow shelters in the jungle. VS, crew loads and fires 81mm mortar. Engineers prepare demolition charge and place it into cave. LS, explosion behind trees. VS, soldiers advance through jungle. Soldiers move into clearing and prepare to set up for the night. Fox holes are dug and radio antennas are erected. VS, UH-1D lands. Empty water cans are thrown out and supplies are loaded aboard. DVD Copied by Thomas Gideon.

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1967
- By: National Archives and Records Administration
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.31277)
- Licence or status: [CC0 1.0](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: its uploader marks it public domain, and the US Copyright Office's records do not settle that it is (a record that may be another film's, a film first published abroad, a year when renewal was automatic, or a country they do not name). Unclear is not offered.