A soldier sits on the river bank, overlooking the river shacks on stills. ARVN national police and rangers are clearing out pockets of VC snipers near Newport Bridge on the northern outskirts of Saigon. VC and North Vietnamese launched an attack shelling more than 120 provincial capitals, towns and allied military installations across South Vietnam and battled government troops inside the capital city of Saigon. VC blasted the pedestrian walkway of the bridge at 4 a.m. May 5th. Ed. Note: Stars and Stripes reporter/photographer McIlhaney was with S&S photographer John Olson following Brig. General Ngyuen Ngoc Loan - chief of the Vietnamese National Police - that day when the police chief was hit by small arms fire. And aide of the gen. managed to drag his boss out from the fire to where Olson and McIlhaney were holed up when two grenades landed, of which one exploded. Both the general, Olson and McIlhaney and the aide were hit by shrapnel. It is at this time it is believed that McIlhaney dropped some of the film in the water.