Marine Offensive: Vietnam Landing Traps Guerrillas
Marine Offensive: Vietnam Landing Traps Guerrillas
"Operation Piranha" throws an assault force of U.S. Marines against a pocket of Vietcong on the Batagan Peninsula, 20 miles south of Chu Lai. With helicopters and the Marines push Red forces inland where South Vietnamese troops await them. In one of the fiercest hand-to-hand engagements of the War, more than 100 Vietcong are vanquished. South Vietnam An amphibious assault on the beach of Vietnam. CU - Helicopter taking off from the deck of the Princeton air craft carrier. MS - Marines disembarking from the ship on to a duct that will take part in the amphibious assault on the Vietcong. LS Looking at the ships in the ocean from the beach. Aerial shot - The Marines in the ducts heading for the beach front. Marines disembarking on to the beach from the Amphibious Assault Landing Craft. LS A platoon of Marines on the beach.