Project Name: Vietnam War Stories Tape/File # WCNAM A22 Montagnards, POW's Transcription Date: 8/24 Transcriber Name: Jason Butler Keywords: Map of Vietnam, history of Vietnam, Highlands, natives of the Highlands, Hmong, native life-ways, US military advisors, green beret, special forces, training Vietnamese soldiers, firing range, M-1, machine gun, grenade launcher, Paris Peace Accords, Linebacker 2, B-52, return of POWs, released POWs speak, POWs greeted by families, Air Force, bombing, air-to-air combat, helicopter rescue, Air Force POWs released, POWs, Vietnamese footage, POWs in the street, POW carried by crowd SPECIAL FORCES TRAINING VIETNAMESE NATIVES EARLY IN THE WAR [22:00:09.03] Title - The Big Picture - Operation Montagnard [22:00:30.18] Black and white, map of Vietnam. [22:00:59.11] Aerial shot of countryside and river. [22:01:09.29] Map of Vietnam, highlands outlined [22:02:02.06] Aerial shots of countryside [22:02:56.24] Montagnards, shots of the "natives" of the highlands of Vietnam, native family, man in loincloth, women wearing children in slings [22:03:23.24] Native woman sorting beans, native men walking on the road [22:03:49.06] Natives smoking [22:04:13.12] More footage of natives, woman with ear lobe plugs [22:04:32.04] Native chopping wood with handmade axe - no pants! [22:05:02.12]

Splitting wood [22:05:17.11] US Military Advisors, green berets?, stand in front of a message board. [22:05:41.06] US special forces training Vietnamese special forces [22:06:21.25] US special forces greeting native villagers [22:06:41.03] US soldier gives candy to child [22:07:06.19] Green beret driving flatbed truck [22:07:18.13] Medic sorting medicine from a box [22:08:07.29] Villagers line up for exam from the special forces medic [22:08:33.14] Medic examines child [22:08:51.16] Medic examines man's eyes [22:09:17.07] Medic continues exams. [22:09:34.03] Medic examines a woman's foot [22:09:46.01] Medic examines older man. [22:10:17.13] US soldiers enter native hut. [22:10:23.27] Natives play drums. [22:10:43.28] Natives gather for training outside a tin hut.

[22:10:52.09] Native man issued bedding. [22:11:08.24] Native soldiers walk single file and sit for training. [22:11:37.07] Natives issued boots [22:11:55.02] Natives clean weapons. [22:12:10.00] Natives issued weapons. [22:12:38.09] Natives march with weapons [22:12:58.20] Aerial resupply drop. Supplies parachute to the ground. [22:13:26.04] Natives eating. [22:13:33.17] Woman sorting eggs for US soldier [22:13:56.00] US soldier buying food for supplies [22:14:15.28] Chickens, cabbages, pigs, bags of rice loaded on a truck. [22:14:52.26] Special forces train natives, green beret in front of a chalkboard, natives sit on the ground [22:15:22.02] Green beret shows weapon to a native [22:15:59.12] Vietnamese special forces soldier watches and greets green beret [22:16:26.04] Natives carry targets to the range. Firing range practice.

[22:17:07.23] Launching a grenade. Natives throwing grenades. [22:17:41.25] Machine gun training. Automatic weapons firing range training. [22:18:50.06] Grenade launcher training. Launching grenades. [22:19:21.03] Blowing up a tree. [22:19:31.26] Demolition training. Setting a charge. Blowing up trees. [22:20:07.13] Mobile radio training. [22:20:30.23] Natives eating at a table. And cooking in giant woks. [22:20:58.08] A child eating at the table with soldiers looking on. [22:21:06.04] Natives crawling with weapons. Green beret firing machine gun. Explosions as natives crawl with weapons. Crawling under barbed wire. Rolling over logs. [22:22:12.09] Night footage. Tracers and flares as men crawl under barbed wire. [22:22:34.02] Flaming arrow signal at night. [22:22:48.28] Natives on obstacle course, leaping over logs [22:23:16.15] Natives marching with weapons, and on patrol over in the jungle. Native soldiers cross streams and move through clear forest. [22:24:38.00] Natives in formation and saluting as S. Vietnamese flag is raised. [22:25:06.21]

Green berets saluting and shaking hands with Vietnamese soldiers. [22:26:08.28] The Big Picture, titles, end of tape. RELEASE OF POWS [22:26:35.11] Start of new tape. Titles - Project Warrior [22:26:47.06] Man talking in front of a bank of microphones - Paris, press covering the event. US desires return of POWs. Linebacker 2 begins. [22:26:58.11] B-52 taking off. B-52s in the air. [22:27:16.20] Crew men walking around B-52. Reg Martin, Paul Winkler, John Dalton. Dalton speaks to camera. Winkler speaks to camera. [22:28:20.27] B-52 in flight. Flight crew in helmets and masks. [22:28:49.16] B-52 drops load. Aerial shot of river. Bridge blows up. Night - explosions. [22:29:19.02] War is ended in Paris. Kissinger and other ambassadors sit at a table. [22:29:36.29] POWs released in Hanoi. Released POWs walk through the street. [22:29:57.05] Animation - silhouettes of POWs behind barbed wire. [22:30:26.20] POWs salute and are greeted upon release. [22:30:58.13] POW Jerry Driscoll speaks to camera. [22:31:23.17] POW Bill Shankel speaks to camera. [22:31:40.00]

POWs greeted on the tarmac. Woman claps with flowers. POW Robinson Risner speaks to a crowd. Woman waves a flag and takes a picture. Woman cries. Child on a man's shoulders. [22:32:09.13] Woman runs to released POW followed by the rest of his family. They hug the POW. A second POW is greeted warmly by his family. Third POW greets his family. [22:33:16.24] Title - Welcome Home. Titles. End of Tape.

AIR FORCE MISSION AND POWS [22:33:25.01] Start of tape. Explosion. Montage of aircraft flying. Soldiers rescued by helicopter. VO by Walter Cronkite? [22:33:49.29] B-52 bombing run. F-4 firing on the forest. Aircraft lift off and drop cargo. Aircraft on fire on the ground. Soldiers helping Vietnamese onto plane. [22:34:09.00] Airmen maintaining aircraft. Pilots and airmen preparing for mission. F-4 lift off. [22:34:27.28] Missile destroys enemy aircraft. Spraying a "kill" star on aircraft. Pilot Steve Ritzy greeted by crew. [22:34:47.24] Pilot Ritzy speaks to press. [22:35:02.23] Rescue helicopter in flight. Finds red smoke in forest extraction point. Crew member repels down line to ground. Door gunner opens fire on enemy. [22:36:15.20] Prop plane flies. Explosion over the forest. Helicopter door gunner fires. Prop plane drops white phosphorus? [22:36:54.16] Crew winches up soldiers from the ground. Crew brings rescued soldier onto the helicopter. [22:37:21.01]

Pilot speaks to camera. [22:37:39.23] Vietnamese bus with POWs on board. [22:37:43.29] POW walks with crutches. POWs greeted and salute upon release. [22:37:55.08] POW with eye patch speaks to camera. [22:37:59.00] Vietnam War Memorial Wall and Monument. End of tape.

VIETNAMESE FOOTAGE OF US POW [22:38:27.06] Start of tape. Black and White. POWs being marched in the streets, [22:38:38.19] Vietnamese crowds shaking fists and shouting, POWs at gunpoint marching, [22:39:14.02] POWs handcuffed together, POWs wearing "pajamas" with numbers on the back [22:39:27.10] Crowd of Vietnamese soldiers, POW carried face down by crowd of Vietnamese soldiers and others [22:40:13.05] Vietnamese load POW into truck. End of tape.