# SEARCH AND DESTROY MISSIONS (1ST INFANTRY DIVISION), 03/15/1968 - 03/19/1968

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 31978 / Local Identifier 111-LC-52868 1968 SEARCH AND DESTROY MISSIONS (1ST INFANTRY DIVISION), 03/15/1968 - 03/19/1968 Summary: Soldier with M-60 MG on his shoulder crossing field. The area is clouded with dust. UH-1Ds fly off and the dust clears. Soldiers kneeling in field. UH-1D flies over. Soldiers rush off copter thru cloud of dust. Copter takes off. Soldiers cross field. Soldiers search in village. Officer speaks over radio. Soldiers walk past hut. Soldier with M-60 MG crosses dried rice paddy. Soldiers walk between trees on rubber plantation. Soldiers at M-113. CU, radio operator. Officer speaks over radio. Officers and soldiers check their position on maps Soldiers follow M-113s and an M-48 tank. The armor knocks over trees as they advance. M-48 among trees. M-48 moves forward knocking over rubber trees. M-113 and soldiers on foot crossing plantation. Officer talks over radio; looks at map. M-48 in field. Pan to M- 113 and soldiers. Soldier resting. M-113s and soldiers approach tree line. Soldier throws hand grenade into bunker. He runs for cover and the grenade explodes. Soldier checks destroyed bunker. M-113s and soldiers crossing plantation. M-113 knocks over tall tree. CUs, bunkers and tunnels at treeline. Burned body of Vietcong. Soldier examines captured weapons and other item Dead Vietcong…

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1968
- By: National Archives and Records Administration
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.31978)
- 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.
