Film 2
Moving Image Item Number: 3084VI4156
- Media Type
- Moving Image
- Physical Location
- Stacks D028.5C
- Number of Media
- 1
- Language(s)
- English
- Collection
- Harry W. Candler, Jr. Collection
- Association
- Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association (VHPA)
- Format
- 8mm
- Digitized in HD?
- No
- General Note
- [VNCA NOTE: Contains footage of soldier burning uniform that may be upsetting to some.]
[VNCA NOTE: GRAPHIC: contains close-up footage of bullet wound]
00:07 solider typing on typewriter - office -Sergeant 1st class - Specialist 5 using typewriter - (E-5) - Vietnamese woman using typewriter ;
1:18 outside - company flag - hooch - Commanding Officer - Executive Officer - soldier exiting hooch - Captain Langston - indoors - cooking - soldiers drinking and cooking - paper lantern - food - eating - mess hall - soldiers outside - Captain - name is likely McGuffin - digging a hole -post hole digger - Cressall shirt - soldiers walking on base ;
4:53 aerial view - landscape - rivers ;
5:55 pet monkey - playing with monkey ;
6:57 night view - outside - rain - hooches - exploring base outside - soldier relaxing outside reading Post magazine - pet monkey - sunset - storm clouds ;
10:17 picture of woman - inside of a hooch ;
10:55 helicopter landing - Sikorsky H-34 Choctaw - helicopters flying overhead ;
12:22 playing with pet monkey - Lieutenant - Senior Aviator - Army aviator - soldiers walking around outside in bath towels ;
12:58 Major Slavich - pilot - First Lieutenant - soldiers posing for camera - showing off medals - standing in formation - saluting - ceremony - medal ceremony - attention - shaking hands - First Lieutenant Stone - Captain Lollar - posing - airfield - partially deconstructed aircraft ;
14:32 Vietnamese police - Vietnamese black and white funeral flag - procession - mourners - traditional Vietnamese dress - Vietnamese funeral - le dua tang - carriage - rickshaws - Lambretta - 3 wheeled automobile - moped ;
15:37 monkey playing with puppy - aerial view - fields - strafing - bombing - missiles - smoke ;
16:42 inside a hooch - pet monkey eating ;
17:23 TRIGGERING: destruction of uniform - Candler patrol cap - Army aviation wings - 100 days sign - burning cap- fire ;
18:07 inside an aircraft - reticle - crosshair - control board - rocket - armament - cockpit - bomber ;
18:45 Helicopter - Huey - Bell UH-1 Iroquois - spinning rotor blades - inside of helicopter - armament system electronics - wiring - components - outside view of Huey - rockets - Army 21944 ;
19:56 campfire at night - daylight - soldiers walking around base - monkey crawling in solders shirt - playing with pet monkey ;
21:42 aircraft flying overhead - inside hooch - soldier reading ;
22:15 soldier wearing boxers lying down reading ;
22:35 soldiers drinking - relaxing - swimming pool - pool party - raining - soldier with right shoulder injury washing up - wound - bandaged - soldier showing off what appears to be bullet hole in shirt - getting dressed - soldier taking pictures with camera - Vietnamese citizen - Non La ;
24:18 GRAPHIC: close up of soldier's injury - wound - gunshot wound – soldier showing off bullet-hole in shirt ;
24:24 soldier standing in doorway smiling - soldier taking pics - dog tags - Army aviation - Vaughan ;
- Perma Link
- https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=3084VI4156
- Citation
- Film 2, 3084VI4156. No Date, Harry W. Candler, Jr. Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=3084VI4156, Accessed 19 Feb 2026.
- Pub Credit Line
- 3084VI4156, Harry W. Candler, Jr. Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University
- Added: 31 Mar 2023 [Updated: 20 Jan 2026]
Vietnam Center & Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive
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Phone
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Email
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