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Viet Cong Prisoners - Wounded Children - USS Repose

Viet Cong Prisoners - Wounded Children - USS Repose
Clip: 425646_1_1
Year Shot: 1967 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1757
Original Film: 040-009-05
HD: N/A
Location: Vietnam, Saigon
Timecode: 00:04:30 - 00:05:53

Viet Cong prisoners are taken after a V.C. regiment is crushed in the heaviest fighting near Saigon since the start of the war. Meanwhile, the hospital ship U.S.S. Repose cares for thousands of Vietnamese civilians and children in a tradition of mercy. A crowd of young men (Captured Viet Cong prisoners) sitting on the ground surrounded by the South Vietnamese soldiers. CU Confiscated weapons, grenades, riffles, ammunition and machine guns. CU The soldiers are blindfolding the captured Viet Cong prisoners. A medical helicopter is landing on a hospital ship the USS Repose with wounded Vietnamese children. A sailor washing very gently a little Vietnamese boy. Vietnamese children sitting in their hospital beds aboard the USS Repose. Children being led on the deck of the USS Repose by a Naval Nurse. Aerial Shot USS Repose.