Pages

0

Media Type

Moving Image

Physical Location

D022.5C

Copyright Statement

1998 Lamancha Productions Ltd.

Number of Media

1

Language(s)

English

Format

VHS

Time - Hr:Min:Sec

00:58:00

Digitized in HD?

No

General Note

Now, for the first time, discover the complete story of the U.S. war in Vietnam. Through rare and never-before-seen U.S. and Vietnamese combat footage, vivid computer graphics and newly declassified secrets from both sides, you'll experience the major battles, firefights and key military campaigns in action-packed detail. From the decisive battle at Dien Bien Phu to the final U.S. helicopter lifting off from a besieged Siagon, Battlefield Vietnam delivers a comprehensive, unflinching look at America's most controversial war. October 20, 1965. After infiltrating the South through neighboring Cambodia, North Vietnamese regiments attack an American Special Forces camp at Plei Mei. Soon they hear the ominous 'whup whup whup' of the helicopter gunships from the U.S. First Air Cavalry Division. Beaten back by intense machine-gun and rocket fire, the attackers retreat...with the Air Cavalry in hot pursuit. The Air Cavalry's crucial mission was to keep the Northern troops from regrouping and cutting South Vietnam in half -- by trapping and then annihilating the enemy with overwhelming firepower. Follow the world's first helicopter-based military formation into action at the battle of the Ia Drang Valley. See how the results of the fierce confrontation changed the fighting tactics of the North. Then go deep into the Viet Cong's largest underground stronghold -- an amazing network of tunnels just twenty miles from the South's capital city -- to learn how guerrillas prepared to combat an increasingly determined American military.