Vietnam '65 | Frontline Combat Footage Captures Year of American Escalation (1965)
118K views · Aug 29, 2026 · News & Politics
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@VGHCX · 1 month ago
Finally some footage I have not seen before.
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@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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@Delatta1961 · 1 month ago
I can’t believe this was more than 60 years ago
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@tommcdaniel2208 · 3 weeks ago
Proud to have lived alongside and served alongside the brave (and modestly modest) men you see here.<br>Not bloodthirsty but committed to each other. Enlisted in '71, ordered to VN in '23 but Kissinger signed<br>the peace treaty in Jan of '73. No more combat MOS, just medics and clerks and such. My orders cancelled.
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@Al-iv3mb · 4 weeks ago (edited)
It's sad to say that the young man who'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 "Presidents" who had not the slightest interest in anything other than self-agrandisment.
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@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 "easy," 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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@mineown1861 · 3 weeks ago
Great footage . <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG5cmJdsyfY&t=175">2:55</a> the reporter called helicopter warfare a new concept , but it had already been utilised by the French from 1954 to 1962 in the war in Algeria.
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@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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@harryknickerbocker9889 · 14 hours ago
I served with the 1st Battalion 9th Marines in Vietnam in 65 and 66. I'm going on 82 and I'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.
@callisto3605 · 1 month ago
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG5cmJdsyfY&t=1170">19:30</a> For those who havent experienced walking under the sun in tropical south east Asia 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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@Americal-v6r · 7 days ago (edited)
@<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG5cmJdsyfY&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 💯🤙
@Americal-v6r · 7 days ago (edited)
Poignant to note the early uniform detail @ <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG5cmJdsyfY&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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