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This shows the 101st returning to the A Shau Valley on April 14 and 15th for a very short visit called Operation Fury. Members of 327th Infantry Airborne Reg make combat assault onto landing zone, watch air strikes before moving out. Troops climbing mountain in dense jungle. Soldiers without rucksacks on reconnaissance patrol in elephant grass later jungle fire M- 79 grenade launchers as harassing fire. Radio operator calling in platoon's location. Troops walking in dense jungle en route to pickup zone. Platoon sergeant writing loading roster. Troops waiting at pickup zone. UH-1Bs coming in for landing, troops embarking and the copters taking off. There was no contact. Filmed by Chris Jensen a motion picture photographer with the 221st Signal/Southeast Asia Pictorial Center. It was shot with a 16 mm Filmo which was powered by a wind-up spring (I kid you not). No auto-focus and no light meters. The Army told its photographers to guess at the lighting. It often worked. Still photographer Jim Saller and mopic guy Dennis Clark, both of the 221st, also covered this. This video replaces an earlier, unedited version that was a poor, low-res conversion from the original 16 mm

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