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North Vietnam Uses Bicycle Transport for Supply Line

North Vietnam Uses Bicycle Transport for Supply Line
Clip: 425770_1_1
Year Shot: 1967 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1759
Original Film: 040-025-04
HD: N/A
Location: North Vietnam
Timecode: 00:03:20 - 00:04:05

"Films from Hanoi's news agency show a primitive bicycle transportation system, used to keep supply lines open. U.S. bombing raids in the North have forced the Cong to resort to this crude method of transport." North Vietnamese soldiers, many wearing pith helmets, loading large sacks of rice onto bicycles, then camouflaging them with tree branches. North Vietnamese men taking bundles of supplies and tying them on to their bicycles, One man is sticking branches into a bundle. Bicycle caravan meandering through village streets & over bamboo bridges in effort to reestablish supply line. Men with their bicycles, all packed up, walking in single file down a dirt road, surrounded by jungle overgrowth. Men walking with their supply packed bikes walking over bamboo bridges. Front view Vietnamese men with their camouflaged bikes crossing over bamboo bridge.