Interview with Neil and Julie Davis for In the eye of a storm - Sydney Films 4 & 5

Continuation of F10573 with Neil Davis describing the shoulder launched heat seeking anti aircraft guided missile (Soviet SA-7) employed by the North Vietnamese in 1972. How the Americans developed a 'stove pipe' exhaust system for their helicopters to foil the missile. Davis describes the siege of Khe Sahn in northern South Vietnam which he likened to when the French besieged in 1954 at Dien Bien Phu. The rivalry between the United States Marines and the United States Air Cavalry and how some Marines fired at the US Air Cavalry helicopters as they were coming in to relieve them at Khe Sanh. Davis was the only Western journalist allowed to go with the South Vietnamese troops into northern South Vietnam during the 1972 Spring offensive. The South Vietnamese Marines acknowledged Davis as he spent many years covering the South Vietnamese involvement in the war. The 1972 Spring Offensive and 1968 Tet Offensive saw the heaviest fighting of the war. Davis covered the only large scale amphibious operation of the war when the Vietnamese Marines landed in a two battalion force at Wanda Beach Quang Tri Province. Takes 8 and 9. Julie Davis as wife of cameraman correspondent Neil Davis responds to questions about her feelings on her husband's work and hopes for the future.