US Bolsters Forces: Planes And Men Rushed to Asia
US Bolsters Forces: Planes And Men Rushed to Asia
United States Bolsters Forces - Planes And Men Rushed To Asia. Swift and sure has been U.S. retaliation for communist PT Boat attacks on the high seas. The "Maddox" and the "C. Turner Joy" were attacked while patrolling international waters in the Gulf Of Tonkin off north Vietnam. War planes from two carriers avenged the unwarranted red assault with 64 sorties against North Vietnam Pt Bases. Twenty-five boats - more than half the fleet - were destroyed and oil reserves badly damaged. President Lyndon Johnson went before the people to announce the U.S. action and Ambassador Adlai Stevenson reported to the United Nations. Meanwhile, a massive U.S buildup is under way in southeast Asia as people of all political faiths rally behind the President in this crisis. Vietnam A naval aircraft carrier with the wings of the plane folded on the deck of the ship. MS - PT Boat 731, USS Maddox . OHS - Aerial shot of a aircraft carrier and plane taking off from its deck. MLS - An aircraft carrier. A torpedo being fed through the tubes of the ship. MS - Pilots climbing up to their cock pits in the jet fighters. MS - Jets taking off of the bridge of an aircraft carrier. Washington, DC Night shot in Washington, DC - The White House standing out in the dark by the out side lights. President Johnson steps up to the podium to report to the nation on the crises taking place in the sea's off of Vietnam. President Johnson, "In the larger sense this new act of aggression, aimed directly at our own forces, again brings home to all of us in the United States the importance of the struggle for peace and security in southeast Asia. Aggression by terror against the peaceful villagers of South Vietnam has now been joined by open aggression on the high seas against the United States of America. The determination of all Americans to carry out our full commitment to the people and to the government of South Vietnam will be redoubled by this outrage. Yet our response, for the present, will be limited and fitting. We Americans know, although others appear to forget, the risks of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war. I have instructed the Secretary of State to make this position totally clear to friends and to adversaries and, indeed, to all. I have instructed Ambassador Stevenson to raise this matter immediately and urgently before the Security Council of the United Nations." New York, NY Inside the United Nation's Building in New York City. Ambassador Stevenson, "In South East Asia, we want nothing more and nothing less than the assured and guaranteed independence of the peoples of that area. We are in South East Asia to help our friends to receive their own opportunity to be free of imported terror and alien assassination managed by the North Vietnam Communists based in Hanoi and backed by the Chinese Communist of Beijing." Vietnam CUS - American soldiers being instructor by their head military advisor. CUS - Military helicopter and soldiers climbing inside and one is holding a bazooka. Helicopter leaving its pad. Air to Air - Helicopters in flight. One soldier a quarter of the way hanging out of the helicopter with a machine gun. Air born paratroopers jumping out of the helicopter. Soldiers patrolling the area where they landed in rice fields. The platoon of soldiers carefully patrol the rice field for the enemy. Soldiers sitting on the back of a truck being transporter to another location. United States air squadrons landing their aircraft. Washington, DC President Johnson, "It is a solemn responsibility to have to order even limited military action by forces whose overall strength is as vast and as awesome as those of the United States of America, but it is my considered conviction, shared throughout your Government, that firmness in the right is indispensable today for peace; that firmness will always be measured. Its mission is peace."