Vietnam Crucible

Vietnam Crucible is a documentary out from the US Army, totally censored I reckon as a response to the social despair and dis-conform felt in the american streets during this 10.000 days indo china conflict.

The real jewel of this piece of filmography relays on the rich footage of a powerful entity like the us army produced for the Office of  the Chief of Information by the Army Pictorial Center, in a documentary called “The Big picture”. During my many tours through the Vietnam War films and documentaries, I found it hard to find in one piece a really one of a kind wide angle on many of the US Army activities in South Vietnam.

Hueys in Vietnam

The millitary here pulls its best archive images to try to convince the antagonist US public on the necessity of this war and of the wide range of helping missions of US personnel for the benefit of vietnamese army and civilians alike.

This doc will take you through the training centers in the US prior sending the kids to the jungle, what kind of training rookies would go through and the tactics they exercised = no one was prepared to fight in the jungle (like the song says “the real prison is the jungle”), the real enemy of this war together with the booby traps.

GIs in Vietnam War

10.000 days were the days expended in the first war for the US to loose, after the three main victories of WWI, WWII and Korea. From the time the first penny reached french army pockets in colonial Indochina, followed by the delivery of advisors, military trainners and finally red blooded american soldiers as well.