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Vietnam Refugees

Vietnam Refugees
Clip: 425623_1_1
Year Shot: 1967 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1756
Original Film: 040-006-04
HD: N/A
Location: Vietnam
Timecode: 00:39:36 - 00:40:32

Some six thousand South Vietnamese peasants are moved from their villages in the "iron triangle" area of the Mekong Delta. The biggest American and South Vietnamese offensive of the war forces their eviction from an area which has been a Vietcong guerrilla stronghold in the past. Thousands of Vietnamese peasants on the move.CU an older woman sitting holding a baby. A woman carries a very heavy load on her shoulders. Men and women moving their belongings down a road. A European or American man carries an old lady unable to walk. Military load refugees on to an open bed truck. Soldiers help children down from the truck. One man has a small girl in his arms. A soldier wearing a cowboy hat takes a child off the flatbed truck. In the refugee camp, a Vietnamese woman washes her children at a well pump. Vietnamese children look confused in the displacement.