September 13, 1965.

Format:

Video

Series:

Academic Video Online

Universal Newsreels ; Release 74

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

The Sixties (1960-1974).

Military maneuvers.

Navy ships.

Vietnam.

Local Subjects:

The Sixties (1960-1974).

Military maneuvers.

Navy ships.

Vietnam.

Genre:

Newsreel

Physical Description:

1 online resource (6 minutes)

Place of Publication:

Neighborhood:Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Universal Pictures Company, 1965.

Language Note:

In English.

Original language in English.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

The WAR IN VIETNAM "Operation Piranha" throws an assault force of U.S. MARINES against a pocket of Viet Cong on the Batangan Peninsula, 20 miles south of Chu Lai. With helicopters and amphibious craft, the MARINES push Red forces inland where South Vietnamese troops await them. In one of the fiercest hand-to-hand engagements of the War, more than 100 Viet Cong are vanquished. Pick Of Beauty Crop: The new "Miss America" is chosen at Atlantic City, New Jersey, and the fairest of them all is "Miss Kansas---19-year-old Deborah Bryant. Selected over 49 other candidates for the title, Miss Bryant aims to become a Doctor of Medicine. If she reaches this M.D. goal, her patients ought to find being ill little less painful.....Long Live the Queen! SPORTS SPAIN/AUSTRALIA WIN U.S. TENNIS TITLES: Manuel Santana becomes the first player from Spain ever to win the tennis championship of the United States, and Margaret Smith of Australia proves that she is the TOP woman player as she adds the American title to the Wimbledon crown she already wears. Santana sets back Cliff Drysdale of South Africa, while Miss Smith takes the measure of Billie Jean Moffitt of the United States.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed December 12, 2018).

OCLC:

859525051