Vietnam '65 | Frontline Combat Footage Captures Year of American Escalation (1965)

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• VG

  @VGHCX · 1 month ago

  Finally some footage I have not seen before.

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• AN

  @Anthony_Skates23 · 1 month ago

  You can see the energy was there in the beginning, but you can't stop what's coming, a bottomless pit

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• DE

  @Delatta1961 · 1 month ago

  I can’t believe this was more than 60 years ago

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• TO

  @tommcdaniel2208 · 3 weeks ago

  Proud to have lived &nbsp;alongside and served alongside the brave (and modestly modest) men you see here.<br>Not bloodthirsty but committed to each other. &nbsp;Enlisted in &apos;71, ordered to VN in &apos;23 but Kissinger signed<br>the peace treaty in Jan of &apos;73. No more combat MOS, just medics and clerks and such. My orders cancelled.

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• AL

  @Al-iv3mb · 4 weeks ago (edited)

  It&apos;s sad to say that the young man who&apos;s funeral featured at the end of this package, Darryl Sanders, gave his life in vain.<br>From a distance of 60 years it seems incredible to hear the views of those who i now am of the same age supporting a war of which they know almost nothing. <br>Over 50,000 young Americans died in a game of geo-politics trying to defend a corrupt regime overseen by a succession of &quot;Presidents&quot; who had not the slightest interest in anything other than self-agrandisment.

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• BI

  @biggold8576 · 3 weeks ago (edited)

  Ahhh... in 1965 huh? My Dad left for Vietnam in April 1969. I imagine in 1965 we still assumed it was gonna be quick and easy. If not &quot;easy,&quot; im sure they thought it would be easier than it was, and definitely quicker. Regardless of when our Dads left for Vietnam, many of our Dads never came home again.

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• MI

  @mineown1861 · 3 weeks ago

  Great footage . <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG5cmJdsyfY&amp;t=175">2:55</a> the reporter called helicopter warfare a new concept , but it had already been utilised by the French from 1954 &nbsp;to 1962 in the war in Algeria.

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• DE

  @dermetzgermeiser · 1 month ago

  The Phantom is one of sexiest jets that ever flew I just can’t get over the tail profile

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• HA

  @harryknickerbocker9889 · 14 hours ago

  I served with the 1st Battalion 9th Marines in Vietnam in 65 and 66. I&apos;m going on 82 and I&apos;ve suffered from flashbacks for almost sixty years. I finally decided to write a book based on my bad memories. FIGHTING THE SHADOW WARRIORS, A Marne In Vietnam. The book has received good reviews.

• CA

  @callisto3605 · 1 month ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG5cmJdsyfY&amp;t=1170">19:30</a> For those who havent experienced walking under the sun in tropical south east Asia &nbsp;90 degrees doesnt sound much but you have to add the oppressive 90-100% humidity,imagine marching under those conditions swarmed by all sorts of pests and vermins,constantly under stress,it must have been a real hell on earth,basically impossible to maintain focus.The vietcong and north vietnamese knew that a western army wouldnt have last ed indefinitely under those circumstances.

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• AM

  @Americal-v6r · 7 days ago (edited)

  @<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG5cmJdsyfY&amp;t=730">12:10</a><br>Looks like a MIM - 23 Hawk surface to air missle system in the background! Awesome!<br>ITN Frontline did great reporting 💯🤙

• AM

  @Americal-v6r · 7 days ago (edited)

  Poignant to note the early uniform detail @ <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG5cmJdsyfY&amp;t=217">3:37</a>.<br>Brightly colored insignia such as non regulated slanted Name patch, Airborne, flight, CIB embroidery ! Dude exudes military accumen, the real deal hardcore lifer! 🤙💯🇺🇸

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