Assignment in Vietnam BBC 1969

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  • In this multi-award winning film, three reporters investigate different aspects of the war in Vietnam. One of the first documentaries to be shot in colour for the BBC's newly formed second channel.
    with Mark Frankland, Dick West and Peter Arnett.

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  • @charlesmiddleton3247
    @charlesmiddleton3247 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    I served in the Marine Corps (E-5) during the Vietnam Era and lost a good High School friend September 16, 1970. His name was L/CPL William J. Franklin (0351) from Southgate, Michigan. He was with I Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines. He succumbed to his wounds from a box mine in the Quang Nam Province, Quassan Valley.. I miss him dearly!! Please be kind to all us veterans and remember them all for their sacrifices!!

    • @foxtrotbravo2549
      @foxtrotbravo2549 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      My God continue to comfort and keep you..

    • @charlesmiddleton3247
      @charlesmiddleton3247 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@foxtrotbravo2549 Hope you are well and in the upright and thanks so kindly for your comment! Stay strong and push forward! Semper Fi!

    • @tracya4087
      @tracya4087 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      god bless you from lancashire , england

    • @charlesmiddleton3247
      @charlesmiddleton3247 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@tracya4087 Your kindness and thoughtfulness is very much appreciated! Wishing you and all of England good health, happiness and and kindness to all. :-)

    • @tracya4087
      @tracya4087 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@charlesmiddleton3247 thank you ,

  • @femiogilvy
    @femiogilvy 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    This is my amazing Dad’s documentary film made when I was only eight years old. Dad had a natural gift for telling stories through the lens and direction of his work. Miss him deeply.

    • @timhawley2332
      @timhawley2332 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Please ask your dad who the artist is playing music at 50:36

    • @femiogilvy
      @femiogilvy 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@timhawley2332 dad passed very sadly nine years ago now. Still miss him terribly what an amazing man dad that he was. 🙏🏾🦋🙏🏾

    • @timhawley2332
      @timhawley2332 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@femiogilvy so sorry to hear that . What amazing memories he left you with.

    • @femiogilvy
      @femiogilvy 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@timhawley2332 absolutely and all his films were exceptionally beautifully made. He adopted myself and my twin brother with mum his wife Allegra Taylor while setting up the first Television in Ibadan Nigerian in the early 1960’s

    • @femiogilvy
      @femiogilvy 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@timhawley2332 I go under my name FemiTaylor.

  • @felixmadison5736
    @felixmadison5736 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I served in Vietnam with the U.S. Army. I was sent over in July 1969, just after the moon launch. I was badly wounded by a mortar round on December 14, 1969, one month before my 21st birthday. I got back to the states at the end of January, 1970. Wasn't well enough to get released from army hospital until September, 1970, when I finally became a 'PFC' again. Whenever you hear that 'war is hell', believe it.

  • @DangerousDavies2008
    @DangerousDavies2008 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    As a young Brit, the Vietnam war is something I only had a vague knowledge of until recently but now thanks to YT I appreciate that it was the most brutal and difficult war in recent human history and those US servicemen who fought in the field and also some of them who sadly suffered when they got home have my utmost respect and admiration. Just young men in their early 20s who should have been enjoying the best days of their lives were shipped half way across the globe to fight in a another peoples war..and they gave they're all despite not enjoying the full support of their country. Several times whilst watching the accounts of these men I've welled up..God bless them.

    • @robertroselle3341
      @robertroselle3341 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The most unnecessary and unjust war in American history!! What had the Vietnamese people done to the U.S. to justify being invaded and terrorized as they were???

    • @heidi7151
      @heidi7151 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@robertroselle3341
      No.
      North Vietnam invaded South Vietnam. The South Vietnamese asked for help. The US obliged, as in Korea.
      North Vietnam surrendered in 1973. The US left. Then North Vietnam decided to invade again 2 years later. South Vietnam asked for the US to help but they said no.

    • @oanebraaksma9322
      @oanebraaksma9322 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@heidi7151 north vietnam surrenderd????? That’s new to me. But never 2 old to learn i suppose. Can you send me a link which supports your statement?

    • @heidi7151
      @heidi7151 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@oanebraaksma9322
      Yes, North Vietnam surrendered in January 1973 after the very controversial "Christmas bombings" ordered by Nixon in December 1972. LBJ was given knowledge of the peace agreement days before his death.
      North Vietnam agreed to stop the invasion of South Vietnam, withdraw from Laos and Cambodia, allow for elections in South Vietnam, etc. But in 1975, with the US long gone, North Vietnam violated the accords and invaded South Vietnam and beyond.
      As for links:
      -Christmas bombings, known more technically as Operation Linebacker II which forced North Vietnam to the negotiating table,
      -Paris Peace Accords 1973
      -Nobel Prizes for Peace to Le Duc Tho & Henry Kissinger

    • @dougclevenger6748
      @dougclevenger6748 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Here in the Colonies we heard about every night on 6:00pm
      Nightly National News.
      I did my tour of duty in 1971.

  • @fazole
    @fazole 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    I've read autobiographies of Vietnam vets. People don't realize how arduous it was to be a grunt. 90lbs on your back in searing, boiling heat. Day after day of slogging. Sleeping on the ground in mud and bugs. Sometimes dying of thirst and others soaking wet. 30 days in the bush, then back to base for a few days where you cut down logs, string wire, dig and fill sandbags. That war was HARD labor on top of the fighting.

    • @alainvosselman9960
      @alainvosselman9960 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      And all that under frustrating policies from U.S government... makes it double as hard i think.

    • @gerardryan4140
      @gerardryan4140 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Fucking idiots led to the slaughter by idiots, Shame.

    • @joeconrad729
      @joeconrad729 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@gerardryan4140 Fuck You Ryan. I got drafted and served my country "in the Nam", unlike some of my so called friends who went to Canada. When l got drafted l didn't even know who we were fighting the North or the South. I had to ask somebody at Paris Island.

    • @gerardryan4140
      @gerardryan4140 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@joeconrad729 Sir full respect. I can't even imagine the hell you and the rest went through.

    • @jamesbradley6544
      @jamesbradley6544 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Lost from 167 pounds of muscle to 104 pounds of survival

  • @finnmanproductions9240
    @finnmanproductions9240 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    The real Vietnam. This is the best period documentary I’ve seen about the Vietnam war. Quality journalism right there. Great work.

    • @SR-pr2xz
      @SR-pr2xz ปีที่แล้ว

      Check out some of the reporting from John Pilger

  • @johnmartin6140
    @johnmartin6140 4 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    Excellent video.....it captured the essence of Viet Nam....My tour in Vietnam was as a combat assault pilot with the Kingsmen/101st division june 69-june 70. It has affected so many of us....Thanks for this documentary.

    • @johncitizen3927
      @johncitizen3927 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      WELCOME HOME...

    • @michaelheery6303
      @michaelheery6303 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I can imagine

    • @chloekit4861
      @chloekit4861 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      john martin what is combat assault pilot

    • @MrRugbylane
      @MrRugbylane 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@chloekit4861 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combat_Aviation_Brigade,_101st_Airborne_Division

    • @bennos9588
      @bennos9588 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Why did you go?

  • @USMCLP
    @USMCLP 4 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    It’s crazy how clear this footage is. Makes it seem like it happened so much more recently.

  • @dougmoore5222
    @dougmoore5222 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Excellent. The best documentary on Vietnamese people during the war. I love that beautiful country and it’s beautiful people. In fact, I’m married to one.

  • @mebeasensei
    @mebeasensei 4 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    Brilliant doco. Watching a lot of Vietnam ver interviews recently. This has to balance the picture a bit..to show the perspective of average, real Vietnamese. Thank you for the upload.

    • @dazzelknight
      @dazzelknight 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      the interviews are rather scripted

    • @mebeasensei
      @mebeasensei 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@dazzelknight Yes, perhaps an agenda was already made...and it was just fulfilling it. Didn't think about that. THere is a lot of guilt about how vets were treated now, and a lot of gushing at 'war heros7 not taking anything away from the horror of those experiences and the pain now felt, but it was good to hear another perspective. Back in 1970, that alternative push back perspective was huge.

  • @robinsmith110
    @robinsmith110 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Outstanding!
    Best I've seen yet. Thank you!

  • @cecildemille190
    @cecildemille190 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Great doc, so human about ordinary Vietnamese lives during the war. The best I have ever seen.. Since the last six years I went a lot of times in this country and I like it, the people more than landscapes (which are beautiful anyway). I have been very moved to watch this one.

  • @lastofthefinest
    @lastofthefinest 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    This is better than most U.S. documentaries. This shows unfiltered opinions.

    • @kirkstmorits1041
      @kirkstmorits1041 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It was made by the bbc

    • @rockmonstermc
      @rockmonstermc 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Now days nearly all reporting is opinion

  • @kieronbevan7489
    @kieronbevan7489 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    I've always loved that part of the world. I always will. This was powerful. What can I say

    • @tbone9603
      @tbone9603 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Love that part of the world? It's a shithole!!!!

    • @jonjones9161
      @jonjones9161 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@tbone9603 You think that, and you’re kind of right. However believe me, there are some amazing places in South East Asia.

  • @JohnMartin-ze8cf
    @JohnMartin-ze8cf 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I have only watched 15 min of this.....from a former combat slick pilot northern I corp ....This is how it was....Thanks for showing how life was for

  • @khiggins7231
    @khiggins7231 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I remember the news on TV about the Vietnam war. I was young and didn’t take much notice then. This is a riveting documentary.

  • @williamjames9069
    @williamjames9069 4 ปีที่แล้ว +93

    Back to Saigon for dinner in a nice restaurant. I could have used some of that. 3rd Force Recon, Dong Ha, Quang Tri 68-69.

    • @Luke-rt9bx
      @Luke-rt9bx 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      LAFOLLETTER not exactly seeing the connection here? The man made a statement about busting his ass in the jungle and how he could’ve used a decent meal, in a nice environment? How does anything you’ve said have to do with that?

    • @jafo766
      @jafo766 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      According to the BRITISH they had Vietnam under control in 1945 ?...b.s

    • @abk4202020
      @abk4202020 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Marines did the most fighting in nam

    • @phil6844
      @phil6844 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Thank you for your service sir!

    • @jourdymoretti9081
      @jourdymoretti9081 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Welcome home! You should have gotten that back then and not this ignorant cuss making ya'll seem inhuman. It was a disgrace how ya'll were treated.

  • @liliethcameron7110
    @liliethcameron7110 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Great, honest, and objective documentary from the BBC. Free of spin and propaganda, and presenting the conflict from the point of view and experience of both sides especially the Vietnamese people. As always with the BBC, they shoot straight and to the point.

    • @spm36
      @spm36 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yep. They used to back in the day..not now I'm afraid

    • @sinjimsmythe9577
      @sinjimsmythe9577 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I mean it isn’t unbiased. Within 3 minutes one of the journos says “the Americans will leave soon, and it will be Vietnamese fighting Vietnamese, as it always should have been”
      And it’s their film: they chose to say it, and then chose to include it right at the start. That’s opinion journalism no question

    • @MrRugbylane
      @MrRugbylane 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ahhh the days when the BBC was credible. Long gone.

    • @Bungiman
      @Bungiman 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not anymore sadly became a tory propaganda mouthpiece

  • @fergspan5727
    @fergspan5727 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    My uncle left Ireland and fought in this war , his stories gave me nightmares

  • @forestdweller512
    @forestdweller512 3 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    wow this is so crazy. I served in the Army two deployments to Iraq and see so many similarities in this video to my experience. Military Industrial complex is out of control. My heart goes out to all the innocent people caught up in these illegal wars.

    • @charlieneal8253
      @charlieneal8253 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      How about the illegal war were fixing to be injected to! Everyone will be invite to another civil war, death and destruction to the max!

    • @hugbug4408
      @hugbug4408 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      War is war! I hate to admit it , but it'sthe old adage in that "MIGHT MAKES RIGHT" for survival ! Hiroshima, Nagasaki , Hamburg , Kiel, Cologne , DRESDEN where in 3 days of incessant bombings at night , and day killed just over a 100,000 German civilians as the same happened to Tokyo , as the same to Atlanta, and Charleston South- Carolina during the American Civil War. General William Tecumseh Sherman said susinctly put it " War is Hell." Yet , man still never learns!

    • @globe2555
      @globe2555 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@charlieneal8253 Have you been drinking?

    • @williammitchell7876
      @williammitchell7876 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@hugbug4408 l

    • @williammitchell7876
      @williammitchell7876 ปีที่แล้ว

      P

  • @pauldodson2018
    @pauldodson2018 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Dear Richard, While I have mixed emotions about Peter Arnett I do appreciate him bringing attention to everything our vets had to go through. Thank you for sharing.-Paul

  • @schmedlywhiplash6267
    @schmedlywhiplash6267 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Great reality as seen through the eyes of someone who has no agenda other than to tell the truth......

    • @carlmorgan8452
      @carlmorgan8452 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Knowledge is different from wisdom. Not all Knowledge leads to wisdom. We must learn from our mistakes. ❤

  • @nikkienova9440
    @nikkienova9440 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My dad was a there..1969 Marine Nicholas novellino..

  • @zeom76
    @zeom76 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Very interesting. Thanks.

  • @tommyoakes6345
    @tommyoakes6345 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I was in I Corp. Based in Vandergrift combat base. We didn’t have luxuries up north in 1969

  • @alansmyth2204
    @alansmyth2204 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Interesting documentary
    The best thing is listening to the men and women who fought it always fascinating

  • @MELDtoys
    @MELDtoys 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you, Richard Taylor for your excellent program. 2Plt, C Co.1-20 11Bde AMERICAL 1971.

  • @Sturminfantrist
    @Sturminfantrist 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Very good BBC docu in the same manner like " the other side of suez" BBC docus are really worth to look at

  • @saigoneze4465
    @saigoneze4465 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    great film .Very hard to find colour stories like this and all aspects of the war well most of it anyway .Arnett was a well respected journo

    • @blackpinklover6720
      @blackpinklover6720 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      W

    • @blackpinklover6720
      @blackpinklover6720 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      A new

    • @fastsetinthewest
      @fastsetinthewest 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Arnett was a social engineer. He was born in New Zealand and has USA citizenship. He is the worse kind of reporter. He then became a peace activist. I'm a drafted disabled Republic of Vietnam combat veteran '68. Upon my return from Vietnam, I got a those fancy degrees. I worked in DC for 2 years. All the democRAT people are criminals. This documentary is all bull schitt!

    • @fastsetinthewest
      @fastsetinthewest 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Holland Karoly Drink some more kool-aid for your thinking. You're right on track to be the sucker of the year. You must eat a lot of rice of your girlfriend's rice bowl. I never said I was a RINO. The jokes on you. Eaglegards ya saps...

    • @JohnJohnson-gf7eh
      @JohnJohnson-gf7eh 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Z

  • @tuan-truong
    @tuan-truong 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Lâu lắm rồi.....rất lâu rồi mới được nhìn lại những hình ảnh xưa chỉ tồn tại trong ký ức . Tôi không hiểu hết tiếng Anh thuyết minh, nhưng những hình ảnh này đã ăn sâu vào tiềm thức của tôi, những hình ảnh mô tả rất thật từ cuộc sống nông thôn cho đến thành thị của miền Nam xưa .

  • @haydenlogston2164
    @haydenlogston2164 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Incredible footage someone had a real good eye.

  • @anthonylovavto3228
    @anthonylovavto3228 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I was in the central highlands 4th inf div. In 1969. RIP ARNETT he was right on the money, about the truth!

  • @brettconv83
    @brettconv83 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    With the current conditions in the United States the reporter’s quote makes sense.
    “You can’t win political wars with guns.”

    • @Multiversetrio
      @Multiversetrio 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Correction, you can’t win a political “war”

    • @brettconv83
      @brettconv83 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Spoobus Boys absolutely it’s hard to kill ideology with bullets

    • @70stunes71
      @70stunes71 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Unfortunately its coming here though. Politicians ruin countries while their citizens die, the politicians fill their own pockets. We as commoners are nothing more than expendable to the rich & powerful

  • @passiveaggressivenegotiato8087
    @passiveaggressivenegotiato8087 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    ty, for not playing fortunate son during the helicopter footage

    • @MrRugbylane
      @MrRugbylane 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The movie makers dont play that song. There is an "unfortunate son" switch on the helicopters control panel thats plays what you are hearing

  • @dreamstate207
    @dreamstate207 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    "C" company 1/7 Chu Lai, Phu Bai, 1965-66 Combat Engineer/ Tunnel rat.

    • @richardnixon4345
      @richardnixon4345 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      dreamstate207 Fake Valor......you peeled potatoes behind the lines

    • @dreamstate207
      @dreamstate207 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@richardnixon4345 Silence comrade!

    • @frankdrebin1023
      @frankdrebin1023 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Don't listen to tricky Dick. Well, at least he resumed bombing the ho chi min trail, and strategic targets in N. Vietnam. Should have gone all the way in Cambodia, though. Heartfelt thanks for your service, sir.

    • @michaelheery6303
      @michaelheery6303 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@frankdrebin1023 ya dropped 2.7 million TONS OF BOMBS ON POOR CAMBODIA..

    • @ajcastellon5903
      @ajcastellon5903 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@michaelheery6303 lol exactly. We were in Cambodia hell they were even trying to flood out the ho chi Minh trail believe it or not, with seed clouding.

  • @paxwallacejazz
    @paxwallacejazz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Read Dispatches by Michael Herr. It was written by a war correspondent who became addicted to that horror show kept going back over and over. It was, along with "Heart of Darkness" the Novel by Joesph Conrad the basis of Apocalypse Now.

  • @carollee8823
    @carollee8823 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thank you to all veterans.

  • @mayonggoibaobithaithuan2613
    @mayonggoibaobithaithuan2613 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Những hình ảnh VN xưa thật quý giá. Tôi nhớ quá về ký ức tuổi thơ

    • @toys7593
      @toys7593 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Đã về VN chơi, thăm quê chưa?

  • @garyheiden3120
    @garyheiden3120 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    2 BIG THUMBS UP. EXCELLENT PRODUCTION. VISITED VIETNAM TWICE. TERRIBLE WAR.

  • @johnaugsburger6192
    @johnaugsburger6192 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thanks

  • @paddy.7784
    @paddy.7784 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Outstanding film .. All three reporters so well informed, and as history as showed, correct in their conclusions.
    Sad thing is .. with the ' imbedded reporters ' the military have dumped on us, we will probably never have that truthful type of reporting again.

  • @alastairwest5200
    @alastairwest5200 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Takes the good old BBC to give us a sound, unbiased documentary...

    • @mnpd3
      @mnpd3 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You must just be sarcastic. This is about as biased as "reporting" gets.

    • @whububle4037
      @whububle4037 ปีที่แล้ว

      BBC = Biased Broadcasting Company. Might of been less so back in the day but now they are just a Tory mouthpiece with silver spoons up their arse.

  • @nguyendailam6703
    @nguyendailam6703 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Broadcast on BBC Two on Tuesday 3rd June 1969.

  • @lastofthefinest
    @lastofthefinest 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    This Asian Lt. is interesting. He is obviously of Asian descent, is from Hawaii, and talks with a southern accent.

    • @jimthesnowboarder12
      @jimthesnowboarder12 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      which one is that

    • @mrtulipeater
      @mrtulipeater 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      5:23. Capt. Harimoto.

    • @mrtulipeater
      @mrtulipeater 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Then again at 9:00. Not clear that is him. Not a Hawaii accent, but locals can be great mimics.

    • @saucejohnson9862
      @saucejohnson9862 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He looks of Korean descent.

    • @mrtulipeater
      @mrtulipeater 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Harimoto is a Japanese surname.

  • @thomasweir2834
    @thomasweir2834 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Did any of the forward operating infantry ever get to use the swimming pools, ice cream parlours, massage?? Or was that mainly the back echelons and desk workers looking after themselves?

  • @dellawrence4323
    @dellawrence4323 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    "How do you know who's friendly and who's an enemy on the ground" He should have said " Anyone who runs is a VC, anyone who don't run is a well disciplined VC"

  • @kalvinburris4924
    @kalvinburris4924 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    love this

  • @johnnyk.2911
    @johnnyk.2911 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank you for the upload Richard, this is a brilliant documentary. I only wish I knew who the actress was at 54:15.

  • @hansg6336
    @hansg6336 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Powerful old men sending poor young men off to war. Some things never change.

  • @MackMateCom
    @MackMateCom ปีที่แล้ว

    Good journalism in this documentary a gem of a reality programme

  • @alexfriedman2047
    @alexfriedman2047 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    R.I.P All American , Korean, Australian, and all Allied troops in Vietnam including the Vietnamese. RIP. Long live ROK and USA

  • @tammacvan547
    @tammacvan547 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    From Hanoi, Vietnam: Many thanks Richard Taylor for an amazing document like this. It funny but true at 8:00: "GI doesn't nkow much about Vietnam and not his fault, usually the only Vietnamese he sees are the ones he's killed....... Even when he does get out when say he gets to Saigon for little fun for some human companionship he sees the worst side of the country ...."

  • @TheSpritz0
    @TheSpritz0 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Peter Arnett was an AWESOME reporter!!

  • @PP-ed9cf
    @PP-ed9cf 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Amazing documentary. Even more amazing is the underestimation of the enemy on the American part. They say they've learned from their mistakes... yet they made these very same mistakes in Afghanistan and Iraq. No surprise they lost all three wars, then.

    • @jamesrock29
      @jamesrock29 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      True words the soliders did not political did pentagon did they should stay out of it let terrorism know they good for information

    • @saund102
      @saund102 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      If you're watching this on a Samsung be grateful the USA saved South Korea.

    • @Eventual-Visitor
      @Eventual-Visitor 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@saund102 I'm watching it in a Lenovo and i hope China doesn't decide to kick some American ass other than just economically and cybernetically.

    • @saund102
      @saund102 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Eventual-Visitor That's IBM basically. Their SSD's are Samsung and Intel manufactures everything else.

  • @johncitizen3927
    @johncitizen3927 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    as an ex-army sniper (1968) saw many unforgettable things....

    • @beamish264burg
      @beamish264burg 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I'm sure you did God Bless you and hope you're well. I'M probably at lestabout 8 or 9 years younger than you because I was in the army in '74 4th division .

    • @goutvols103
      @goutvols103 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you for your service. Where did you serve in Vietnam?

    • @emojiking8580
      @emojiking8580 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      As a Marine Sniper, thank you for your service. My brother was killed in 68 in quang tree prov.
      Vietnam. By a North Vietnamese Sniper, I was 9 yrs. old at the time . I hope you killed a lot of those motherfuckers.

    • @jafo766
      @jafo766 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@goutvols103 Indeed , where in Vietnam ? and with who ?

    • @dazzelknight
      @dazzelknight 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      is that right ? id love too hear about it

  • @countryboy2368
    @countryboy2368 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Love that this doc featured the 187th assault helicopter company. My dads helicopter company. Don't care for the opinions of the journalist.

    • @sinjimsmythe9577
      @sinjimsmythe9577 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Sorry about the journos. Saying the Americans shouldn’t be there etc. Opinion/activist journalism, not real journalism
      I’m British and the BBC is even worse now tbh

  • @Mod-rw9cw
    @Mod-rw9cw 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have a very vague memory of this being on television in black and white. I remember being shocked at the explosions and the noise of the guns. I was only 2 or 3.

  • @yogi9631
    @yogi9631 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    @54:23sec
    Holly shit, that's paul mauriat's Love is Blue playing in the background !!!!!

    • @anthonylovavto3228
      @anthonylovavto3228 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      With Angela Cartwright on the album cover( lost in space)...very rare!

  • @johns8836
    @johns8836 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Arnette reported on the first gulf war great journalist

  • @dbeaus
    @dbeaus 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Start at 4:06 if you want to hear some real bullshit. On my very first patrol we fired 105s into a village we couldn't even see. When I asked the bosses how we knew who was being shelled, he looked at me and said, "does it matter". Firing into positions without regard for civilians was done many times. There were also many times when we took casualties because we would not fire into occupied areas. It all depended on who had the radio in their hands. The VC and NVA also killed people who had little to do with the war but to say that our firing into targets that were not confirmed was rare, is just not true.

    • @JC-il4jf
      @JC-il4jf 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      fuck u

    • @dbeaus
      @dbeaus 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@JC-il4jf Those that cannot except the truth are the easiest to manipulate. If you can't handle the truth, please continue to live in your fantasy world and get out of the way for those who chose not to.

    • @enlightenedwarrior7119
      @enlightenedwarrior7119 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @themailman43 still doesn't make it right we killed thousands

    • @chloekit4861
      @chloekit4861 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Daniel Batitsas did you lose a lot of friends in Vietnam

    • @dbeaus
      @dbeaus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@chloekit4861 Yes, between the companies I was with in Vietnam and my neighborhood at home. Not only killed, but permanently disabled and psychologically damaged. I don't know how many, I didn't keep count.

  • @briangoldy8784
    @briangoldy8784 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The Bravest 19 year Old Men, on Planet Earth..........Step off a Huey into a Firefight.......1969..

  • @richerich9238
    @richerich9238 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That reporter is In love ❤️ with that Vietnamese woman.....and so am I !!!! Whew

  • @SNP-1999
    @SNP-1999 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Peter Arnett went on to become a very well know TV reporter in the USA.
    When watching this excellent film, I feel sorry for the innocent civilians, in particular the little kiddies, who were caught between the terror of the VC and coercion of the South Vietnamese government and the Americans, who often could not determine who was friend and who foe.

  • @vivahernando1
    @vivahernando1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    So this is where the A-Team got their stock chopper insertion video at the start of the show intro .... cool

  • @timhawley2332
    @timhawley2332 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Anybody that knows the artist at 50:36 playing music please leave info. Thanks

  • @auroroborealis3449
    @auroroborealis3449 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Impressive

  • @ronniemoore475
    @ronniemoore475 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    My uncle Moore was killed in that province in 69, nickname Butch , if any veterans remember him make a comment.

  • @williamnixon3071
    @williamnixon3071 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    BTW, I was 7 years old. Watching this on the news with my family.

    • @fidziek
      @fidziek 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      and? what else can you recon? (seriously... I remember a lot since I was 3 yrs old... like a particular song=melody on ythe radio, which I was able to find only 40 yrs later on YT!...)... I rememb er news about HaNoi evac...

    • @williamnixon3071
      @williamnixon3071 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@fidziek WELL, old boy. At least our memories are still intact.

    • @Ferda1964
      @Ferda1964 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And you still remember watching this show after so many yeras? It had to make a real impact on your young mind.

    • @williamnixon3071
      @williamnixon3071 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Ferda1964 Yeah, It did. Brought up on a diet of John Wayne n Gungho GI`s can do that to a child. And my dad reacting the way adults react. Told me it was real. N seeing a man executed by a shot to the head on teatime tv. Or a Monk burning himself alive. Yeah. Id say it had an effect

    • @Ferda1964
      @Ferda1964 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@williamnixon3071 Well yes. You know the Commies eliminated just about all of the Monks and that's why we never saw more of them burning just like we never saw on the TV the very many thousands of South Vietnamese that were massacred by the Reds.

  • @thanhnhan4279
    @thanhnhan4279 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    trung thực & tuyệt vời

  • @ITSMYOPINIONNOTYOURSDOYO-bi5sr
    @ITSMYOPINIONNOTYOURSDOYO-bi5sr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The shame of sending working class children to die for the power and greed of politicians & their elitists masters

  • @kendalkenny1843
    @kendalkenny1843 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The problem with that war . The people you were building a school with in daylight were shooting you at night...

    • @larrymcjones
      @larrymcjones 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Just like parts of Afghanistan

  • @jonbiles5404
    @jonbiles5404 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Should pass a law if u want to be in Congress then u are the first to go

  • @bobsmith5109
    @bobsmith5109 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    If your lower middle class in the sixtys,and male,when you graduate high school your going to Viet Nam

    • @davidca96
      @davidca96 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      it also made a difference where you lived, a lot of southerners were drafted over northerners simply because of the state they lived in.

    • @trashpanda314
      @trashpanda314 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      *you're
      *sixties

    • @LiverAndOnions69
      @LiverAndOnions69 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      If they graduate high school in their sixties they deserve to be sent off to Vietnam

    • @Cody2nd
      @Cody2nd 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Raul Duke your about dumb, no one said anything about graduating high school at 60 years old.

    • @daveryan6426
      @daveryan6426 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yup.

  • @SUPERFLY-ky7yh
    @SUPERFLY-ky7yh 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Who was the pretty young woman being interviewed? I remember her face as a child. Thanks

  • @DS-uo5ie
    @DS-uo5ie 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Anyone ever heard of “Combined Action Program” ?

  • @zaki2dunya321
    @zaki2dunya321 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What song did that girl sing at the end? 😢

  • @petermurray2414
    @petermurray2414 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    On my arrival in Vietnam Jan 1968 I was surprised that villagers chose to ignore us. No welcome cheers, no happy waves. Told they were frightened VC would hurt them if they smiled or waved at us. After a month or so I knew we were not welcome. Their government, the one we supported, was obviously corrupt. Their officers and soldiers were decent but “the head of the fish was rotten”. We won the TET Offensive battle but lost the war in 1968. Excellent documentary.

  • @raywalters243
    @raywalters243 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My Uncle Larry Walters served several tours in Vietnam only to come home and get murdered in his bedroom by his own people. Sure wished I could locate someone that knew him then. 101st Airborne Ranger Larry Walters.

  • @woodscw50
    @woodscw50 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Simper war afather of my tour 1968-1972 our brother the song my one kill 55 years father a war my walk my boots

  • @MinhLe-vr9wl
    @MinhLe-vr9wl 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hay có ai làm phụ đề Việt sub hoặc thuyết minh cảm ơn nhiều.

  • @xichlosaigon2095
    @xichlosaigon2095 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    the soldiers are very lovely

  • @ylyso2511
    @ylyso2511 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Phóng sự hay quá

  • @thorpestanford5359
    @thorpestanford5359 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    When has war ever been pretty

    • @charlieneal8253
      @charlieneal8253 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And it won't be pretty here on American soil!

  • @paxwallacejazz
    @paxwallacejazz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    20 yr war 55 to the fall of Saigon 1975.

  • @Steelhorsecowboy
    @Steelhorsecowboy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Arnett, doesn't hide his opinions does he? The beginning of the end of journalism.

    • @johnmoran1317
      @johnmoran1317 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Steel-I agree.. Walter Cronkite was also a very candid reporter..To paraphrase what he once said-that the war is unwinnable

    • @samk2266
      @samk2266 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@johnmoran1317 it was unwinable

    • @workhorse7134
      @workhorse7134 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@johnmoran1317 "candid" I think you misinterpreted the post you replied to.
      Journalists should report not insert their opinions which are intended to influence the viewer; i.e. propoganda.

    • @johnmoran1317
      @johnmoran1317 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@samk2266 _thanks for your supportive comment..

    • @johnmoran1317
      @johnmoran1317 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@workhorse7134 -and the government's claim of the domino theory[ie-that all of Asia might become communist] was not propoganda????????I strongly support Cronkite's comment.. and believe it was closer to the truth than the government's stand.

  • @expeditedcourier7119
    @expeditedcourier7119 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    The guy playing that guitar at 47:09 is amazing.

  • @paudsmcmack3117
    @paudsmcmack3117 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    30:50 what a beautiful person. Such a shame her husband was killed and in that culture then a widow was not so valued.

  • @sergioferreira4883
    @sergioferreira4883 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Fico pensando no sofrimento da população pobre vietnamita , crianças, velhos e mulheres.

  • @purewaterlillyYT
    @purewaterlillyYT ปีที่แล้ว

    Would anyone tell me who is the doctor at 17:00 🕔

  • @poisongas6033
    @poisongas6033 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    👋

  • @jecrispy8217
    @jecrispy8217 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    The absolute worse war strategy in the history of mankind! Dropping men off by helicopter into a dense jungle looking for the enemy on his home turf! A disaster in the making. My sincere empathy to all of those soldiers that only did what they were told to do...

    • @brucemorrison9449
      @brucemorrison9449 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Je Crispy ~That's your warped opinion ! Opinions are like assholes, everyone's got one ! Vietnam Marine vet, Staff Sgt., (Ret.)0311, USMC, USAF, ARNG.

    • @jecrispy8217
      @jecrispy8217 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@brucemorrison9449 with all due respect, thats the reality not an opinion. The war turned out to be catastrophic like all wars. It was by fact a bad strategy and a disaster, not by opinion. The United States lost about 59k men, they backed out and over a half century later in spite of being under communist rule, Vietnam turned into the capitalist country they wanted all along! They could have obtained the desired result without even fighting a war and the loss of lives !

    • @michaelheery6303
      @michaelheery6303 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      EXACTLY

    • @tonynails007
      @tonynails007 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@jecrispy8217 Very truth !

  • @nikkienova9440
    @nikkienova9440 ปีที่แล้ว

    My dad was there a Marine...NICHOLAS NOVELLINO 1969..

  • @paxwallacejazz
    @paxwallacejazz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    What isn't understood about Ho Chi Minh was that he wasn't so much a communist as a nationalist. He penned a nieve letter to D.D. Eisenhower saying how he admired George Washington and desired national sovereignty and independence from France. The Vietnamese hated the French colonial occupation. So we lost the war when we supported the French.

    • @classlessbozo317
      @classlessbozo317 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It was a civil war and the Americans backed a corrupt Roman Catholic dictator. It just so happened the Russians stepped in as allies for their own personal gain, but the North Vietnamese would have accepted help from anyone if it meant reunification. Communism was just a means to an end. The ideal solution would have been to kick the defeated French out and honour the agreement they made with Viet Minh after their help against Japan in WW2.

  • @woodscw50
    @woodscw50 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    our life brothers our song the hill 55 years my brother
    a father my war

  • @johncarney6576
    @johncarney6576 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Annette claimed that 90% of the troops were draftees who had no idea why they were in Vietnam. The fact is that 70% of the troops in Vietnam were volunteers. Surprised Arnett got that wrong because he’s a pretty good journalist.

    • @SandfordSmythe
      @SandfordSmythe 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      How many combat troops?

  • @ianross806
    @ianross806 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It's amazing how beautiful the country and people are. This certainly isn't the perspective I used to hear on American TV when I was a kid.

  • @ThoNguyen-ld3dm
    @ThoNguyen-ld3dm 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    US ARMY helped south VIETNAM so much
    THANKS

    • @arronlockyer5424
      @arronlockyer5424 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Mustang retired USMC after 28 years... This is my son. Patriots, We really need your help!!.. He was a VOLUNTEER FIREMAN, AND VOLUNTEER EMS. He was always there to help others in their time of need! Its simple can you skip an extra cup of coffee a few times this week to help someone that would help you? We have all said we will help fellow Patriots in their time of need and we all stand together!!!... Let make this go VIRAL and also Donate! .. www.gofundme.com/f/help-cervical-spinal-problems

  • @ALARFC51
    @ALARFC51 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Many if not most arvn's were search & avoid rather than search & destroy. But who could blame them, we could look forward to the end of our 365 days tour, the only out for them was death or trying to survive until hostilities ended.

  • @davidsloan7841
    @davidsloan7841 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I was born for Vietnam. I raised myself in the swamps of Alabama. I had trained boo coo hunting dogs to help me catch food so I opted to join a scout dog Reg. I sawed off one of their 12 gauge pumps and me and my dogs walked point for many a spooked squad. Believe I could train a dog to find trip wires? They can smell the metal and I think they might hear air moving across it. Anyway the army was good to me, and the grunts treated scout dogs special. All over--I would do it tomorrow. Time is short now, wonder what God is going to say about all the killing. Nothing but a thing. Peace.

    • @chrisphillips8230
      @chrisphillips8230 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      david sloan thank you for your service, my grandfather was in the war, best man you could have ever meet when he was a live, all the vets from this war I have ever meet are so nice do anything to help you out

  • @MichaelLantz
    @MichaelLantz ปีที่แล้ว

    Many people I know said that Lyndon Johnson made a big mistake by not calling up the reserves and The National Guard Units, by not financing the war throught War Bonds and The Rationing of Food,gasoline,scrap iron and etc.