Roger Burke Hawkins

The B&H filmo was the standard US Army field camera in Vietnam where I was a photo detachment commander with the 221st Signal Company. The following film was put together from 1000 ft that I shot while documenting the Pleiku Mike Force: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBZljoV_sVI. Mike Force was a special ops unit composed of US Special Forces, Aussies from the AATTV (Australian Army Training Team Vietnam) Montagnard tribesmen, and ethnically Chinese Nungs. I had come to the 221st from the Pentagon HQ of DASPO (Department of the Army Special Photographic Office) where I was spoiled by using finely engineered German Arriflex cameras. However, the windup filmo was better suited to a jungle environment with no access to electrical plugs for recharging a battery belt. Some of this footage was used as "B roll" in the History Channel production "Suicide Missions: MACV SOG - Behind Enemy Lines. Trust me when I say that this YouTube material converted from National Archive preview copies on unrefrigerated Army film stock is nowhere near the quality of the originals.