:06:03
Wait, John.
You kind of smell like perfume.
:06:06
Honey, it's the flowers.
:06:08
Baby, this is the chance
we've been waiting for.
:06:12
This is it.
:06:16
n"Saigon, March 23rd, 1962"
:06:22
Three sacks a pair.
Yeah!
:06:25
Enlisted men over here!
:06:27
- Tell them to hustle!
- Enlisted men over here.
:06:29
Going to Saigon,
here in the truck.
:06:31
Right over there, sir.
:06:33
- Morning, sir.
- Vann, John P., Lieutenant Colonel.
:06:36
Colonel Vann.
I don't have you on manifest, sir.
:06:39
I was supposed to be
on yesterday's flight.
:06:42
- That flight crashed, sir.
- Well, I'm glad I missed it.
:06:48
Take that jeep there.
:06:51
- Steve Burnett, the Times.
- Go ahead.
:06:53
Hey, you're a lucky man.
:06:56
You should be dead.
:06:58
I should've been dead long before
yesterday. What's your name?
:07:01
- Steve Burnett, Times.
- You don't say.
:07:04
- You need a ride?
- Sure.
:07:05
Hop in.
:07:07
- Welcome, Colonel.
- Thank you.
:07:09
You mind getting in the back?
I like to do my own driving.
:07:12
Let the man from the Times
sit up front.
:07:16
Just point me
in the right direction.
:07:24
An exotic little war
in an Asian paradise.
:07:27
That's how one of my colleagues
described it.
:07:30
After the French
were defeated in 1954...
:07:32
Vietnam was divided
between Ho Chi Minh's communist north...
:07:36
and the southern regime
of Diem.
:07:39
The communists launched an insurrection
to capture the south...
:07:43
so America sent 11,000 advisors
to bolster Diem's army.
:07:46
Look at this place.
:07:48
Man, this is a place
worth fightin' for.
:07:51
Can you imagine what it's gonna be like
if the communists get it?
:07:57
God, look at that.