# Operation Big Spring - Part 2

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 31331 / Local Identifier 111-LC-51631 1967 Operation Big Spring - Part 2 OPERATION BIG SPRING (2D BATTALION, 503D INFANTRY, 173D AIRBORNE BRIGADE) 14 MILES NORTH OF BIEN HOA, SOUTH VIETNAM, 02/04/1967 - 02/06/1967 - Soldiers resting in jungle. Radio operator and officer check map. VS, soldiers advance thru dense jungle. They suddenly run for cover as they come under attack from the Vietcong. VS, soldiers fire M-16 rifles, an M-60 MG and an M-79 grenade launcher in jungle. The sun streaks thru the foliage. (Good action scenes.) Soldiers on alert in jungle and as they cross clearing. LS, soldier fires MG. Soldiers rush across clearing. Soldier speaks over radio. Soldiers walking thru tall grass, bamboo, and dense brush. Soldiers walk to helicopter landing zone. Soldiers resting as they wait for copters to arrive. Smoke from signal grenade. UH-1Ds come in for landing in clearing. UH-1Ds take off. soldier directs UH-1Ds to landing. Soldiers board the UH-1Ds. Shot from UH-1D as it takes off. AV, UH-1D in flight. Silhouette of soldier holding a rifle in foreground. Pilot at controls of airborne UH-1D. Soldiers rush off UH-1Ds. Smoke rising in background. Soldiers advance across field of smoking grass. Soldiers set up an 81mm mortar in field. Soldier speaks over radio. Smoke rising from signal grenade. Officers and…

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1967
- By: National Archives and Records Administration
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.31331)
- 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)

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